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Reader question: Please explain “blind spot” in this sentence: Though a strong organizational culture is critical in startups, it is a blind spot for most entrepreneurs. My comments: In other words, they don’t see it. Don’t see what? Don’t realize the importance of a strong, professionally solid organizational culture in startups. When entrepreneurs endeavor to start a company, they first, obviously have to secure what is called seed capital. That’s money from investors (if their own money is not enough) to get their venture going, or started – hence the word startup. Then they look for the right people to work with – finding the right people, for example, for management personnel as well as general staff for production, marketing, etc. When the money and people are in place, then they need to establish an organizational structure, centering on the company philosophy or its core mission. This, I think, is what is meant by organizational culture in our example. This culture is like an identity of a person, which allows one to readily tell a company in one industry from another in a different industry. For example, McDonalds, a fast food chain, is very different from Apple, a technology firm. Obviously so. In our example, “a strong organizational culture” probably points more to a hierarchical system which ensures people from top to bottom are locked in step. By having a strong organizational culture, companies will have their people work as a team, stay on the same page. In other words, people will be able to work as a coherent team rather than a group of individuals each going their own way. | 
