Facebook has come a long way from its scrappy start-up days.
The guy with the sharp suit and the alligator briefcase might be written off for his hopelessly corporate mind-set, while the janitor who has been around since the start-up days might be sitting on a stack of stock options.
In the last 14 years the search giant has gone from two employees to over 32,000, making it difficult to preserve its nimble and industrial start-up days.
The increasing number of regional business plan competitions, Start-Up Days, Founder Centers at universities, and entrepreneurship professorships are visible signs of a growing understanding of the issue's importance.
Now, as an 80+ person organization, I realize that I should have slowed down, enjoyed the moments of our start-up days.
From the early start-up days of Room to Read, Erin has been instrumental in the design and implementation of the organization's scalable, replicable model for improving the quality of education across Asia and Africa.
While I have a higher tolerance than most for a 'flying by the seat of your pants' work culture thanks to my start-up days, I also have a very low threshold for unclear and self-serving communication and disrespect.
There are 49 tech firms that start up every day in China's Silicon Valley.
It took the still stealth start up just 10 days to raise a nice seed round from Ron Conway and a few other big name angel investors, we hear.
"The danger here is that the note would not be considered a qualified mortgage," said Robert Willens, an authority on tax law, "an obligation which is principally secured by an interest in real property and which is transferred to the Remic on the start-up day".
Then, instead of proceeding to the coat check, he started up the stairs: the day's first scofflaw.
