LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, a VC investor with Greylock Partners, during a 2017 Seattle appearance. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) In the startup world, getting a marketable idea and then ...

REID HOFFMAN KNOWS a lot about growing companies at a breakneck pace. An executive at PayPal during the company’s earliest days, Hoffman later cofounded social network LinkedIn and now invests in fast ...

It is common to find entrepreneurs at different stages breaking their heads trying to decide what strategy to follow to grow and scale their startups without dying in the attempt. This is highly ...

Public markets are down. The New York Nasdaq, which contains many of the most renowned U.S. tech stocks, has fallen by more than 25 percent this year. European tech companies have been hit hard, too.

A version of this article appeared in the Spring 2019 issue of strategy+business. When a startup matures to the point where it has a killer product, a clear and sizable market, and a robust ...

When LinkedIn co-founder and Greylock partner Reid Hoffman first coined the term “blitzscaling,” he kept it simple: It’s a concept that encourages entrepreneurs to prioritize speed over efficiency ...

Entrepreneur and investor Chris Yeh (MBA 2000) and Reid Hoffman, cofounder of LinkedIn and a partner at Greylock Partners, have been fixtures in Silicon Valley since the early days of the commercial ...

Of the 13 publicly traded technology companies worth more than $100 billion, six are headquartered in Silicon Valley. Yet as models for nonprofits seeking to scale up quickly, the lessons we can glean ...

Contrary to what many might believe, opening multiple units of a franchise business does not result in exponentially more work. By compounding and blitzscaling, franchise owners actually work less as ...

When I’m joining a business, I consider four things: its leadership, its viability as a company, my interest in the sector and whether I can learn from it. I was part of a brand that aspired to be ...