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How Hard Could It Be?: The Four Pillars of Organic Growth, Corporate Culture Article - Inc. Article

Jan 01, 2008; Joel Spolsky ... When you build a company, you have to choose between two very different ways of growing. When my co-founder, Michael Pryor, and I started Fog Creek Software, we made a conscious decision to bootstrap. Our goal has always been to grow slowly, organically, steadily, and profitably. By contrast, a ...

Street Smarts: Follow the Numbers, Financial Troubleshooting Article - Inc. Article

Jan 01, 2008; Norm Brodsky ... As longtime readers of this column know, I strongly believe that when you launch a new business, it's important to track monthly sales and gross margins by hand for the first year or two. I tell people, "Don't use a computer. Write down the numbers. Break them out by product category or service ...

The Office: The Bad and the Ugly, Corporate Culture Article - Inc. Article

Jan 01, 2008; Leigh Buchanan ... There's a reason Dilbert, The Office, and their ilk are so popular. Satire gets old fast, but the appeal of realism endures. And the real world, sadly, is full of lousy bosses. Someone ought to do a study on where these louts come from. Were they abused by their own bosses? Did they toss overboard ...