Starting and growing a business

Okay, so this one is a little off of my usual topic.  But maybe there's something here that can scale down to small businesses as well....

Found a couple of blogs via a fast company article here, that are by some venture capitalists in Silicon Valley i think.  They talk about business models and scaleable companies.  Stuff that is way out of my league, but might be useful if it can be distilled.  The first one is by Ben Horowitz, and one blog entry of his talks about the roll of a CEO in terms of passing on bad information and getting help solving problems...

Some how, from the comments of one of Ben's blogs, I came across this article by Steve Blank. Steve also seems to be one who knows a lot about building businesses, so it's worth following some of the posts he puts up...