Title
Sink or Swim: Know When It's Time to Bail
Abstract
There are endless survival challenges for newly created businesses. The degree to which a business successfully meets these challenges depends largely on the nature of the organization and the culture that evolves within it. That's to say that while market size, technical quality, and product design are obviously crucial factors, company failures are typically rooted in some form of organizational dysfunction. To help investors recognize signs of trouble before catastrophe strikes, I started working more than a decade ago on the Bell-Mason Diagnostic, a quantitative evaluation method that includes a set of rules for examining a company and comparing it with an "ideal" organization.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1145/966789.966806
ACM Queue
Keywords
Field
DocType
quantitative evaluation method,product design,crucial factor,market size,catastrophe strike,company failure,endless survival challenge,technical quality,organizational dysfunction,bell-mason diagnostic
World Wide Web,Computer science,Computer security,Sink (computing)
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
1
9
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gordon Bell11050532.60