Click is delighted to welcome our newest member, Bryan Shnider! Bryan runs two companies: SolutionAdvisors (Citrix deployment and utilization specialists) and iVolunteered (social venture helping connect nonprofits and recognize volunteers).
Bryan, welcome to Northampton!
There is a growing movement to run companies without titles or hierarchy. People have tried this for decades and, sadly, mostly failed. But in the past ten years several companies have embraced various forms of this concept and been successful: Valve, a 300+ person, $1 billion per year in revenue company, Asana, the hot Silicon Valley productivity startup, and Medium to name a few. Zappos just adopted Holacracy, the most well-articulated structure for achieving the no-titles, no-hierarchy approach. Some are wondering if this might be an ideal way for startups to organize. We are too! What about you?
More on Holacracy from its founder in the below video:
Brian Robertson is an experienced entrepreneur, CEO, and organizational pioneer best known for his work developing Holacracy, an organizational operating system that concretely embodies the agile, transparent capacities called for in today's turbulent times.
This is animated, watch closely :).
The awesome people at LifeHacker pointed to a great blog post on how to build your own motorized standing desk from ikea parts! Get the details here.
The TechEmergence podcast recently interviewed Click president Paul G. Silva about entrepreneurship ecosystems. Check it out here (web, itunes).
Image credit: Edgar Olivera
We have a lot to be thankful for as we close the books on 2013. Click's membership grew by more than 50% and includes amazing people that joined our existing awesome crew. We held some of the only family-friendly entrepreneurship socials (which were a blast :)) in the Valley. And finally, we launched our first entrepreneurship course and watched it deliver results far better than anything we have seen before.
We can't wait to see what 2014 will bring :).
