Steve Vachani, CEO of Power.com, shares insights on how to succeed as a startup Steve Vachani, founder and CEO of Power.com, is a serial entrepreneur.  He's experienced how to maintain a company, particularly in rough times. In this episode of Lessons Learned, he shares some key entrepreneurial wisdom. Lesson 1- Do not start a company with the people sitting next to youVachani explained the first mistake you can make is to start a company with the people sitting next to you, such as your best friend, or the people you share your ideas with.  Asking for advice from somebody is much different than bringing them on as your co-founder.  Vachani emphasized the idea that the first five people to work in the company will shape the entire company, thus you need to make very ... [ Read more ]