I agree with you vasilipupkin... It is very hard for both employee and CEO to manage their work and Family Life Balance. But, we do not forget that CEO is the commanding officer of his army and It takes lot of stress and thinking to take a right step for his company future...
But, I have a solution for these as well... Give some of the responsibility to your co-founders means they can take the final decision in that particular area. Through that, CEO can save himself from lot of stress and also can make some time to share with his family...
same with me, I have a working experience in Accenture and IBM and Both company sucks...
I do not get any benefit such as daily perks which make me not to leave my job...
Recently, I applied for Google Designer Job and when I get a job there, I swear that I will write a blog post for Hacker News about the working environment of Accenture...
It is really motivating article and today, I am going to generate a best marketing strategy for tumblr and try to execute that. (only one as you say)...
Robinson Meyer, I think that may be he talked about Facebook?? But, as you said in your blog-post that you missed out so many things due to noise and you clearly listened only two words "Instagram" and "Snapchat" from the president of USA... So, all are you doing is just guessing that If he doesn't talk or you don't listen about Facebook from his mouth, then Facebook sucks... That's not cool... man
Clickbank is the best one and I am using it as an affiliate. It is better for your company to use it to get high number of affiliate marketers for your product...
It is really a good idea to know our employee's ideas and their work culture. It also provides a great things about our employee through this. We can know that what exactly our employee wants from us and are we giving or not??
It is really a great way of starting a business online. But,amazon is the only source for income or do you have any other sites from where you are getting more referrals (less than amazon.com)
Now, Google and Facebook competition becomes more stiff and due to this, Google tries to make his social networking site more popular through Sign up process like Gmail, youtube and other stuff which automatically increase the number of accounts for Google Plus and according to stats, they are winning but in reality, very few mass spend their valuable time in Google Plus. So, their all hard work goes in vain eventually.
Reddit is the best alternative of HN and the most favorable thing of this community is that it has sub communities such as Technology, Programming,etc. not like HN.
But, it also has some disadvantage such as spammers first attack, moderators are not so active, sometime you can find unusual stuffs.
you can try Baidu.com-a chinese search engine. It is mostly used in China and Japan. The most interesting thing about this search engine is that it is the second most usable search engine according to alexa database.
But, I have a solution for these as well... Give some of the responsibility to your co-founders means they can take the final decision in that particular area. Through that, CEO can save himself from lot of stress and also can make some time to share with his family...