Saying No To Your Investors
from the nyah-nyah-nyah dept
A good column from Karl Jacob at Keen.com about why it's sometimes important to say "no" to your investors. He points out that early on your investors may have more knowledge and can be very helpful, but as the company matures, the CEO should have a better feel of day-to-day issues - and like a child who is growing up and learns that his/her parents aren't always right, a company needs to realize their investors aren't always right. One side note: at the end of the article they refer to Keen.com as a P2P play, which is playing pure buzzword hype. There's no way Keen is what most people think of as P2P, but it certainly sounds nice, doesn't it?
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Why isn't it P2P?
but I thought it stood for "Peer to Peer." Doesn't keen.com allow you to chat with other people, much like a phone call? Isn't that
an interaction between peers? (your computer or phone) to another peer (someone else's computer or phone)?
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Keen still the middle-man
Phillip.
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