John Battelle: Sell as little as possible

Founder of Federated Media and The Industry Standard shares lessons as an entrepreneurJohn Battelle, CEO and founder of Federated Media, a leading advertising network, talks to Bambi Francisco about his experience as an entrepreneur and shares a few lessons he learned after more than 15 years building media businesses. In the Internet boom years, Battelle founded The Industry Standard, a leading magazine about innovation and technology. In this interview, Battelle looked back at those years and said the biggest mistake was not leaving soon enough. His experience is something many entrepreneurs have gone through. They hang on well beyond their time. "I got so caught up with the fact that I built this myself," he said. "I should have left." Battelle, who also authored "The Search," offers up other advise as well, ... [http://vator.tv/n/968 read more]

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