Rosedale to step down as Linden Lab CEO

“The company has the type of financial performance that if it wanted to it could become a public company,” said Benchmark’s Bill Gurley, who sits on the Linden Lab board. “I certainly think at some point in the future — and I’m certainly not announcing anything new here for the next 12 months […]

People Costs vs. Stuff Costs

The fascination with Jason Calacanis as muse in this part of the tech industry is curious to me. He’s not particularly insightful while being exclusively self-serving and self-absorbed, but give him credit for being able to stoke a small brush fire with some regularity. At any rate, I don’t normally read his blog or feel […]

Congratulations to Dan Farber

Dan is one of the people I have been fortunate to meet and get to know over the years. He is deserving of this promotion to CNET and I wish him good fortune going forward. I really can’t say enough good things about Dan so I’ll just leave it at that!

Big news at […]

Tournament Theory for CEO Pay

Interesting way to put it.

That’s because many economists believe that CEO pay is structured as it is not to spur the CEO to ever greater heights of achievement, but rather pour encourager les autres. Michael Eisner might work just as hard for $1 million a year . . . but the gigantic payoff […]

CTO Handbook — How to care for and feed your CTO

I go back and forth between thinking that a CTO can make or break a company. I think it depends on the overall bench strength of the organization, their personal style, and ultimately the degree to which technology is the critical enabler of the company. In many cases, “good enough” technology really is, while in […]

The Danger of Incrementalism

The title of this post is a little cryptic, so allow me to explain. Big companies have repressive cultural dynamics and decision making cycle that result in important strategic initiatives taking a really long period of time to emerge and when they do the compromises that are made in order to get consensus from the […]

Mattel’s CEO Should Think Before Answering

I watched an interview with Mattel CEO Bob Eckert about the massive toy recall(s) they have been undertaking as of late.

Interviewer: Mr. Eckert, should consumers feel confident about the safety of Mattel toys?

Eckert: Yes they should, we have the highest quality standards in the industry…”

My first thought was “if you have the highest quality […]

E-Mail Bankruptcy

Fred Wilson did it yesterday, I’m filing it today. I have so many unread e-mails in my inbox that I can’t possibly get caught up. If you have sent me an e-mail in the last month and I have not yet responded, I apologize.

I am now calling people rather than going through the all-too-typical multiple […]

The Bullwhip Effect

My first reaction to reading the story about the continuing saga of San Fancisco’s new Muni line creating problems that are throwing the entire system into chaos (again mind you, this is a regular thing for Muni) was that for the $648 million the line extension cost to build one would think that someone could […]

Teqlo Responds to Techfold

Techfold points out 5 things that we need to do to Teqlo to make it better. I posted over on the Teqlo blog my responses to the issues, which I agree are issues. On one hand it’s sobering to think of how much we still need to do, but on the other it’s relieving to […]

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