2 posts and columns on Morpheus

Bringing Y Combinator's Incubator Model to India

in News on February 19, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

What works in the U.S. can work here, too–it’s a tenet held by many entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in India and other emerging regions of innovation. While not everything should be duplicated, one small Indian firm believes it can apply the model employed by Y Combinator, a Mountain View, Calif.-based business accelerator and seed fund.

Will Tough-Talking Bartz Reorg Yahoo Soon and Finally Blue-Pill the "Matrix"?

in News on February 9, 2009 at 10:00 am PT

My favorite anecdote collected so far about new Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz is the one in which she called together two separate groups of execs who were direct reports of former Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and President Sue Decker. Bartz, several sources recounted, went around the table and asked them one by one what they actually did, making various outspoken comments along the way about management. Stories like this about Bartz’s take-charge style have been ricocheting through Yahoo as she navigates the troubled company to come up with a plan to revive it. But of all the various things many employees I have talked to hope she does first is dump the “matrix” organizational structure that many at Yahoo have grown to despise.