by markfasciano | May 2, 2021 | Uncategorized
It’s not easy to see how the Tao-te Ching, which advocates “nonaction,” “naturalness,” and essentially going with the flow, pertains to the incessant demands of entrepreneurship, but I’ve managed to find some of its wisdom really helpful in building businesses....
by markfasciano | Mar 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
Everyone knows that Thomas Edison was a determined inventor, but I recently learned that he was a rather undisciplined businessman. I just finished The Wizard of Menlo Park by Randall Stross, which recounts how Edison’s prideful principles and difficulty working with...
by markfasciano | Feb 4, 2021 | Leadership, Mark Fasciano
After the burst of the dot-com bubble and the deepening of the economic recession that followed 9/11, I was struggling to keep FatWire Software afloat like just about every other tech startup CEO. The company had 2 years of zero growth, and sales remained flat at...
by markfasciano | Dec 15, 2020 | Leadership, Mark Fasciano
In 2005, I attended a business event in which President Elect Joe Biden (Senator Biden at the time) headlined a slate of political speakers. He was by far the most engaging of them all and the most able to connect with us on a human level. Throughout the years that...
by markfasciano | Oct 26, 2020 | Leadership, Mark Fasciano
I’ve been lucky enough never to have witnessed firsthand the devastation of war, or faced a life-or-death situation. Like many people, I’m forced to rely on historical accounts, the news, and movies for a sense of what war is like and its effects on the human psyche....
