by markfasciano | Aug 3, 2020 | Leadership, Mark Fasciano
I started my first company, FatWire Software, when I was 27, and just finished with grad school. Things went well for the first few years. I built a product, and grew revenues to $3M, then raised venture capital, and by our fifth year we were doing about $10M...
by markfasciano | Jul 27, 2020 | Leadership, Mark Fasciano
When I was building FatWire Software with my grad school buddy in the late 1990s, David Packard’s business philosophy was always at the back of my mind. His book, The HP Way, describes how he and Bill Hewlett created one of the most successful companies of all time...
by markfasciano | Jul 21, 2020 | Leadership, Mark Fasciano
At the intersection of tech thought leadership and heroism, no figure comes to mind more quickly than Alan Turing. For anyone who hasn’t read up on Turing’s achievements in computer science — or seen the 2014 biopic The Imitation Game — he is historically...
by markfasciano | Jun 11, 2020 | Leadership, Mark Fasciano
Serial entrepreneurship can be a lonely gig. There’s no comfort in working your way up to a leadership position when you’re building a company from the top down. I started my first company straight out of grad school, and nearly twenty-five years later, I can’t see...
by markfasciano | Jun 8, 2020 | Leadership, Mark Fasciano
Few American presidents have earned a legacy quite as prolific and inspiring as that of Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt. His bold, charismatic leadership style and his aggressive attitude toward government action resulted in an almost mythic persona that persists to this...
