Yahoo! Names New CEO

Over the weekend, it became clear that Carol Bartz really wanted the Yahoo! CEO job, and that the board was willing to give it to her. Today, the appointment became official. Carol Bartz is the no-bullshit, down-to-earth, highly successful former CEO of Autodesk. Her story in Silicon Valley is a lesson in career management: boards

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Cadence Names New CEO

Putting all speculation to rest, Cadence today named its new CEO. Lip-Bu Tan will be running the company. Tan has been on the board of Cadence for five years. Here are further details from EE Times and DeepChip.

Deal Radar 2008: ExpertCEO

ExpertCEO provides its members with an online platform to connect with peers, discuss ideas, give and receive advice and tap into professional resources. Members include CEOs, COOs, chairmen/women, general managers, presidents and other senior executives in small and mid-sized as well as Fortune 500, public or privately held companies. The company can be considered a

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Entrepreneurial Executives?

I wrote this post on February 11, and have received a large stream of deals that are looking for financing. As I am working through these, it is becoming obvious to me that in most cases, the ventures need a couple of more key people in specific functions.

Eric Benhamou & the Turnaround of 3Com (Part 9)

SM: One question about your managing the board during that difficult period. What did you learn from that process, and how did the board react positively, negatively, especially looking back today? EB: It was very gutsy on the part of the board to ask me to take the lead on this company. I had never

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Eric Benhamou & the Turnaround of 3Com (Part 7)

Eric takes over as CEO of 3Com, and as a first item of business, makes some hardline choices. SM: What catalyzed the CEO change at 3Com? EB: The board realized something needed to be done. In 1989, my two partners at Bridge, Bill Caraco and Judy Estren, left out of frustration. They realized this was

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Concur CEO Steve Singh (Part 1)

Concur CEO Steve Singh recently did an interview with me to discuss the development of Concur Technologies (CNQR). Concur helps corporations lower travel and expense processing costs by streamlining the expense reporting process. It is one of the companies I have covered as part of my Enterprise 3.0 series. SM: I would like to trace

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Entrepreneurship Case Studies

You have read many of my interviews on this blog. Here’s a synthesis of some of the case studies I have done, in an interview format. These differ slightly from the series that I have titled Role Model Interviews, since in this series, I go into the company and its strategy, market, financing, etc. in

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