by: Sigurd Rinde
Why not small company, agile and market leader?
Why must big turnover equal huge payroll?
Allow me:
When my colleague and I did one of our first LBOs many years ago (can manufacturer) we found a "tellers window" where the employees lined up for their brown envelopes with cash at payday.
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I used to love Dell and Google.
Dell.com was the place for a geek-in-training - study, tinker, choose, build the machine of your dreams, click, pay and have it delivered. I bought all my machines there, ditto for the companies I was involved in.
Then one day, having enjoyed another build and order experience, a salesperson called me. A what?
Sigurd Rinde Google marketing companies adsA few years ago, a couple of virtually anonymous Turkish developers founded TaleWorlds, a game development company that created one of the most innovative indie games of the last few years. The game is called Mount&Blade and if you want to read a really good game review of it, there's one here. The game is, like I said, quite excellent but there's another thing that caught my attention about it...
video games companies Paradox Interactive Mount&Blade business models business TaleWorldsActivision, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) and Vivendi (Paris: VIV) today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement to combine Vivendi Games, Vivendi's interactive entertainment business -- which includes Blizzard Entertainment’s World of Warcraft®, the world’s #1 multi-player online role-playing game franchise -- with Activision, creating the world’s largest pure-play online and console game publisher. The new company,
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One of the things you're likely to see at your workplace in the next few days is some focus on the environment. It's coming up on Earth Day, of course, the time of year when even hardnosed CEOs' thoughts turn green, at least for the moment.
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Putting People First blog just posted about a survey that strategy consultancy McKinsey just conducted with executives about web 2.0 technologies and found significant interest and support, but they still shy away from blogs:
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An old friend and colleague just sent me these notes he had written up for the Virtual Worlds 2007 conference that just took place in NY.
main point being there is a lot of stuff happening out there and SecondLife is just one player.
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