Not everybody gets to be a boss. Someone has to do the work. Almost nobody has any meaningful experience running the works of a Net company and they have no idea what to do with the workers once they start. What's missing is the middle managers who can actually manage and workers who don't resent being managed. So we end up with the 18 hour days, the absurd client expectations, and the bizarre retrenchments, restructuring, huge successes and horrifying failures.
Good management is good management.
It takes more than a good idea it takes time, experience and a willingness to accept blame as well as reward. The horror stories in Netslaves are not because of malice or vindictiveness of the companies themselves, they are the result of managers' being unable to balance the big vision of the founders with the reality of running a business. The middle manager was fired years ago. Those days are over. In the maelstrom of a new economy being developed, get used to stress and disruption.