They were the currency of the American dream. Now they are worthless paper -- a symbol of CEO greed. What went wrong with stock options? Where do companies go from here? Our only option: Visit one of the world's leading authorities on employee ownership.READ»
This year, a record number of CEOs were ousted. Some were fired, some retired, and some even died. But a great number were also sent to prison, like the CEOs of Enron and WorldCom. What happens to company leaders when they run roughshod over their corporations?READ»
Heavy construction equipment maker, Sany Heavy Industry Co Ltd prepares for an initial public offering, IPO in Hong Kong after posting its 59.3% year-on-year growth net profit, 2009. The data was uncovered by United Equipment Sales, ...READ»
A leading venture capitalist offers a tough-love survival guide: How to keep your company afloat when the IPO market has dried up. Plus, six words you should never use when raising money.READ»
Mark Cuban, occasional bad-boy owner of the Dallas Mavericks and dot-com billionaire, has been charged charges of insider trading by the SEC. Was losing money the reason behind the trade?READ»
Provisioned within the stimulus bill is a salary cap for executives of any bank that receives federal money through the TARP program. Instead of taking home millions, the top brass will be limited to $500,000 in total annual pay. ...READ»
When Mark Zuckerberg showed up in Palo Alto three years ago, he had no car, no house, and no job. Today, he's at the helm of a smokin'-hot social-networking site, Facebook, and turning down billion-dollar offers. Can this kid be for real?READ»
Your stock price is down 80%. All of a sudden, that ".com" at the end of your company's name feels like a four-letter word. Life in the Internet economy can't get much worse, can it? Be afraid. Be very afraid.READ»
(Crossposted to my Stealthmode Blog)I asked Bill Gurley whether a
new model for early stage funding would emerge now that the VC industry
is "slimming down" (perhaps shrinking by 50%) due to the rebalancing of
university ...READ»
More than a year after Tesla shipped its first batch of Roadster sports cars, rumors are swirling that the electric vehicle company is planning to file for an IPO any day now. Tesla has officially denied the rumors, but it would ...READ»
Amazon's purchase of online shoe retailer Zappos was surprising and interesting news all by itself, but now comes a twist: reports that this marriage made in e-commerce heaven may have been a shotgun wedding forced by Zappos' ...READ»
Tesla Motors' well-publicized struggle with growing pains is something of a soap opera. There's divorce, bankruptcy, plane crashes, sports cars, and lots of uncertainty--and the longer we watch, the more complicated things seem to ...READ»
In the Internet casino, the name of the game is IPO, and the players are looking to improve their odds. Meet five high rollers who think that their systems will help them hit the jackpot.READ»
Those may be the five most dangerous words in business, wrote Warren Buffet in a September 27 memo to his top managers at Berkshire Hathaway.
According to an article today in The Financial Times, the billionaire investment guru is ...READ»
At Apple's shareholder meeting, the scandal over stock options backdating came up and Steve Jobs reiterated his cooperation with the SEC. It surprised me that the stock issue came up again. I thought Apple's story in the media had ...READ»
Google intends to raise more money from its much sought-after IPO. The search-engine giant increases the size of its IPO by $1.1 billion on Monday and says it aims at a price range of $108 to $135 per share for 24.64 million ...READ»
What's the difference between a star athlete and you? These days, less and less. Here's how to negotiate for the deal you deserve. (We'll take our 10%.)READ»
Four years ago, a massive stroke nearly killed Bob Lessin. Now he's left his job as vice chairman of Salomon Smith Barney, poured his own money into 50 Web startups, assumed the leadership of Wit Capital, and single-handedly tried to merge the old economyREAD»
Great companies have to make tough choices. Grand Junction Networks and PointCast Inc., two high-flying Silicon Valley startups, faced the question of a lifetime -- and arrived at opposite answers.READ»
This March, Linda Tischler posted an FC Now entry about a controversy over overtime at Electronic Arts. Today's Wall Street Journal reports that the company has agreed to settle the lawsuit. (Subscription required.)
So doing, EA ...READ»
Next week in Silicon Valley, high-tech workers will gather to protest a renewed effort on the part of the Financial Accounting Standard Board to allow companies to expense employee stock options. Shades of Fast Company's April ...READ»
The Institute for Policy Studies and United for a Fair Economy released their 10th annual CEO compensation survey earlier this week. Among the key findings in "Executive Excess 2003: CEOs Win, Workers and Taxpayers Lose":
CEOs were ...READ»
