Management Debt

Like technical debt, management debt is incurred when you make an expedient, short-term management decision with an expensive, long-term consequence.

What Now? Firing a Key Executive.

You’re the CEO of a tech start-up and you’ve recently hired an engineering VP, but now you realize you’ve made a big mistake. What should you do?

Former Palm and Twitter Techie Mike Abbott Jumps From EIR at Benchmark to Kleiner Partner

Well, that didn’t last long, Mike, but maybe the food was better at 2750 Sand Hill Road than at 2480 Sand Hill Road.
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Will Marc or Won’t He? Andreessen Mulling Yahoo Leadership Role in Bid.

Can the legendary entrepreneur save Yahoo? Can anyone?
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The State of Social Sharing With Fred Wilson, Roger McNamee and More (Video)

Here’s a panel I did last week at the Privacy Identity Innovation conference that took place on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley, called “Social Sharing and the Data-Driven Economy.”
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A Few Questions for Yahoo Product Dude Blake Irving — Who, Thankfully, Does Not Want to Make a Bid (Video)

Who has the most thankless job at Yahoo these days? My vote goes to the guy who has to keep innovating in the midst of all the noise.
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Exclusive: Twitter’s VP Engineering Mike Abbott Departs

According to sources close to the situation, Twitter VP of Engineering Mike Abbott has left the company. He is apparently interested in doing more investing.
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HuffPo Hires Google Engineer Dierks

AOL’s media arm, the Huffington Post Media Group, has hired longtime Google techie Tim Dierks to oversee its growing programming engineering team as SVP of engineering.
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Zuckerberg Tops Vanity Fair’s “New Establishment” List Again (And Look Who’s No. 40)

Vanity Fair magazine put out its high-profile “New Establishment” list of the top 50 people — and guess who made the cut from tech?
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At Google, Page Seeks to Cut Red Tape

As Google Inc. co-founder Larry Page prepares to reclaim his role as chief executive on April 4, he has already taken steps to assume greater command of the Internet company.

LinkedIn Hires VP Engineering From Google