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Did the Venture Capital Crunch Force Zappos-Amazon Deal? [Updated]

BY Kit Eaton
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Thu Jul 23, 2009 at 9:19 AM

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»

STARTUPS | 1 comment

The Many Lives of a Wall Street Angel

BY David Dorsey
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Tue Dec 18, 2007 at 11:57 PM

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»

ENTERTAINMENT | Comment

CEOs in the Slammer

BY Angus Loten
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Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 9:25 AM

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»

HUMAN RESOURCES | 9 comments

Overthrowing Overtime

BY Heath Row
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Thu Oct 6, 2005 at 1:22 PM

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»

BUSINESSWEEK | Comment

If You're Not Furious Over the Bank Bailout, Read This

BY Chris Dannen
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Mon Feb 16, 2009 at 7:06 PM

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»

CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION | Comment

Googling for Courage

BY Alan Deutschman
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Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 7:46 AM

With their daring IPO, Larry Page and Sergey Brin are fighting the Wall Street cartel.READ»

ETHICS | Comment

"Everybody Else Is Doing It"

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Tue Oct 10, 2006 at 1:16 PM

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»

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY | 2 comments

Mark Cuban Charged with Insider Trading

BY Brendan Collins
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Nov 17, 2008 at 3:14 PM

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»

ENTERTAINMENT | Comment

Chatter

BY Fast Company
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Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:50 AM

Googlemania!READ»

ONLINE BUSINESS | 3 comments

Beginner's Luck

BY Alex Markels
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:14 AM

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»

TESLA | Comment

Rumor Mill: Tesla Preparing to Go Public, Opening Plant in Downey, CA

BY Ariel Schwartz
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Mon Nov 23, 2009 at 6:20 PM

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»

CAREER PLANNING | Comment

Those Were the .Com Days

BY William C. Taylor
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:20 AM

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»

STARTUPS | 1 comment

(No) Exit Ahead?

BY Rekha Balu
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:37 AM

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»

INTERNET + WEB | Comment

Google Ups IPO Price

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Mon Jul 26, 2004 at 11:19 AM

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»

PERSONAL BRANDS | Comment

How to Get a Piece of the Action

BY Eric Matson
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Dec 18, 2007 at 5:41 PM

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»

ONLINE BUSINESS | Comment

How to Go Public When You Go Public

BY Alex Frankel
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Dec 18, 2007 at 5:45 PM

Jerry Weissman teaches high-tech stars such as Cisco, Intuit, and Yahoo! how to talk to money. It's a lesson worth listening to.READ»

MARKETING | 1 comment

Apple and the Media

BY Kevin Ohannessian
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri May 11, 2007 at 1:43 PM

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»

CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION | 6 comments

Hacker. Dropout. CEO.

BY Ellen McGirt
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:20 AM

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»

LEADERSHIP MENTORING | Comment

Is Selling Out 'Selling Out'?

BY Pat Dillon
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Tue Dec 18, 2007 at 11:49 PM

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»

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Are We Out of Options?

BY Keith H. Hammonds
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:38 AM

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»

FINANCE + INVESTING | Comment

Out of Stock (Options)

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Jun 18, 2004 at 12:02 PM

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»

ETHICS | 4 comments

Layoff Payoffs

BY Heath Row
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Thu Aug 28, 2003 at 6:25 PM

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»

FINANCE + INVESTING | 2 comments

The Google Stock Exchange

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Wed Dec 13, 2006 at 6:23 PM

A few years ago, back when shares were a modest $200 a pop, I was debating whether or not to buy stock in Google. A friend encouraged me to do it, challenging my hesitation by asking, "Who can stop them?" The answer, as it turned ...READ»

NEWS + CURRENT EVENTS | Comment

In Today's Papers

BY Lynne d Johnson
Relevancy Score: 90
Thu Sep 7, 2006 at 1:11 PM

What's worth reading: RIM launches multimedia BlackBerry "Research in Motion, the Canadian manufacturer of the iconic BlackBerry mobile e-mail device beloved by politicians, business leaders and celebrities, will launch its first ...READ»