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....
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...
