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In the News (Fri 27 Nov 09)

  
  Feld Thoughts
In the cleanest restarts, the company is recapitalized via the new investment, reducing (or eliminating) the previous liquidation preference overhang and well as the previous equity ownership.
As part of this recap, the employees that are staying with the company will receive new options in a “refreshed” option pool that is usually between 10% and 20% of the equity of the company.
While the company undeniably has an emotional overhang, a lot of companies address it by such simple things as changing their name and pretending the history doesn’t exist.
www.feld.com /blog/archives/001467.html   (735 words)

  
 NetSlaves: The FC Memorial Fund
Phil Kaplan at Fucked Company, the favorite site of the dotcom dispossessed, has set up The FC Memorial Fund to help the relatives of the victims of the Edgewater murders.
The problem with a site like Fucked Company is that if he gets things right 50% of the time, he'll be a hero to most people.
Like flaming someone on a bulletin board, I guess giving companies the business is all too easy, if you don't consider that these companies are made up of human beings, with feelings and all the rest of it.
www.disobey.com /ghostsites/netslaves/comments/978027368.shtml   (1602 words)

  
 Spin Cycle | News | City | The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper
Outlook Marketing's Jeff Rappaport admits that using a bigger company like Nordstrom is "a key strategy" to getting its dot-com client in the news, even if Intentia is not the main focus of the story.
All three tactics used by the P.R. industry--dropping the dot-com from companies' names, erasing the phrase altogether, and associating them with successful businesses--are intended to convince the media and the public to forget about dot-coms as we once knew them.
"Fuck smokers for even suggesting they should be allowed to smoke indoors in the first place.
www.thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=5488   (687 words)

  
 Way Too Fucking Many: Our Week Of Hell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
I was getting the old run around from the company about getting the damn server back up, then they finally tell me (24 hours later) that the main drive needs to be replaced.
Now i havent been very happy with the company since day one, so I tell them to give me a refund and cancel the server because the it has not worked since they billed me. By then it is night time on the 12th and waytoomany.com has been down for 36 hours, im pissed.
But oh well its 4/20, the website is up, the new server company is great, we have a decent ammount of weed...I'm out of here.
www.waytoomany.com /blog/2006/04/our-week-of-hell.html   (479 words)

  
 Popular Narrative
A full company downfall is worth 100 points, where a round of layoffs or managerial reconstruction might bring it closer to 10 or 15 points.
On a larger scale, however, the site seems devoted to coddling the victims of these fucked companies' downsizings and belly-ups, providing a forum for those twentysomething hipsters to lick their wounds and wax bitter about the state of e-business in general.
In addition to the fuck archive and happy fun slander corner, there is an entirely separate messageboard devoted to more pedestrian topics like the most annoying commercial on tv and random swearing.
web.mit.edu /cms.920/www/critiques/fuckedcompany.html   (531 words)

  
 Pink-Slip Blues
Today, the very same employee who joined a company in 1999 because of its investments in talent is learning that allegiance takes a backseat to profits during a downturn and that loyalty does not necessarily produce a return on investment.
The message boards on Fucked Company and WetFeet.com support the theory that bitter employees are outspoken employees and that smart companies practice compassionate layoffs.
If your company is remaining tight-lipped about profits and strategies, surf Web sites like Fucked Company and WetFeet.com for the inside scoop on your employer, Luban advises.
www.fastcompany.com /articles/2001/06/luban.html   (1318 words)

  
 Story - Welcome to dot-com deadpool
Players pick five companies they think are having trouble making it and rack up points based on the severity of the news emanating from the flailing firms.
According to the guidelines, a company is chosen for inclusion in the pool when it does "something that signals -- or attempts to correct -- impending doom." Points are assessed for a range of such signals, from "general bad news to minor layoffs to all-out corporate slayings."
The news section of Fucked Company confirms dire predictions with one tale of woe after another: LookSmart.com employees are leaving en masse.
www.orlandoweekly.com /util/printready.asp?id=1845   (679 words)

  
 FuckedCompany.com - Official lubricant of the new economy
Rumor has it the company is being investigated by the Maryland state legislature.
Rumor has it the company is planning to close its doors or be sold by the end of the year.
A showdown is brewing between Sears and CSC, as the two companies attempt to come to terms over their outsourcing agreement.
www.fuckedcompany.com   (735 words)

  
 AlterNet: Fear and Gloating
With a logo designed to look like that of Fast Company, the bible of Tom Peters acolytes, Fucked Company allows users to choose five companies they expect to suffer setbacks, winning points for various degrees of failure.
Since 24-year-old Philip Kaplan started it a month ago as a joke intended to amuse a half-dozen friends, Fucked Company has had a growth rate most websites would die for -- according to its founder, there are currently 80,000 people playing and there have been a million page views.
Over and over on Fucked Company's bulletin boards, workers in their 30s and 40s express rage at the arrogant kids who assumed that older people couldn't grasp the infant industry.
www.alternet.org /story/9434   (1631 words)

  
 Wired News: Is This One Nation, Under Blog?
But weblog software companies and industry experts say many new journals are authored by the same people who've abandoned older ones, just as AOL users stop using screen names they've outgrown.
A parody of Fucked Company, the blog graveyard was a way for Lindabury to poke fun at the popular authors for throwing in the towel.
Fucked Weblog alumni have a laundry list of reasons for quitting that includes wanting to relinquish computer and Internet obsessions, needing more time for work or book projects, and trying to cure old-fashioned writer's block.
www.wired.com /news/culture/0,1284,54740,00.html   (882 words)

  
 FuckedCompany.com - Official lubricant of the new economy
He was designed by an ad agency- not us, which you would have guessed if you knew fuck-all about this business.
I'm the president, co-founder and creative director for the company and we didn't get where we are by taking lip of off snotty little web surfing fucks like you.
Owning the company doesn't mean a big salary--I'm obscurely proud that most of the animators here make more money than me. The nature of an entreprenurial business is something--again--that you seem to know fuck-all about.
www.fuckedcompany.com /extras/blur_email.cfm   (721 words)

  
 NetSlaves: Covering the dotcoms (Judith Miller et al)
It was an amazing upbeat piece for a company that dumped a key executive and had a memo published on Fucked Company which bordered on insane demands for work.
Well, when you get reports of 70 hour weeks, companies losing hundreds of millions and the kind of personal behavior which is freaking amazing, you would be a robot not to get the point that something is wrong.
A lot of these companies are great stories, but only if the mist is wiped from the eyes of the TV folks and they treat them like they treat other industries.
www.disobey.com /ghostsites/netslaves/comments/971226931.shtml   (2660 words)

  
 refund blogs
You didn't screw up the company pay roll system did!" I will have my normal check direct deposited and tomorrow I go pick up a retro check making up the deference that they didn't have on there last pay check!"
You mean the company fucked up my checking account because they should have deposited the whole check in and they shorted us almost 300 fucking dollars and that is what I was overdrafted on?"
HR contacted our banks already and we will have the over draft fees credited back and what we paid in to clear it up!" Might take another week but the money we paid out for their fuck up thinking it was ours......will be back into the account!"
www.mindsay.com /tags/refund   (666 words)

  
 Metroactive News & Issues | DotCom Deathwatchers
Since 24-year-old Philip Kaplan started it a month ago as a joke intended to amuse a half-dozen friends, Fucked Company has had a growth rate most websites would die for--according to its founder, there are currently 80,000 people playing and there have been a million page views.
Kaplan, 24, is clearly in the latter camp--in fact, he says that he hopes all the attention Fucked Company has been getting will be good PR for PK Interactive, the web shop that he runs.
Recently, when ABPNews.com laid off all its employees and 70 percent of them volunteered to work for free while the company searched for funding, many in the media treated the story as an inspirational tale of loyalty and camaraderie.
www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/07.06.00/dotcoms-0027.html   (1544 words)

  
 Meet the man behind FuckedCompany
But tomorrow did come, in the dot.com crash of last year, and as those voices went suddenly silent, a new voice arose to record the death whines of the dot.coms that had drawn in millions upon millions of investor funds.
When I came up with the idea for Fucked Company--and also when I came up with the idea for PK Interactive, my consulting company--I was working for a big web shop.
While this puts you in a pretty good position to criticize pie-in-the-sky dot.com schemes, has it changed your standards as to what makes a company "fucked?" For example, your site and your readers seem to treat layoffs as a terminal symptom.
www.medialifemagazine.com /news2001/july01/july09/4_thurs/news3thursday.html   (2165 words)

  
 How to know if your company is fucked? | Ask MetaFilter
Parent company of business is a reknowned holding corporation, which oversaw businesses in a number of fields.
Vendors screamed at for using company vending machines, as such behavior is "no longer part of the renewed agreement".
I have been employed by or involved with two companies that folded, two that were acquired, and two that had major downsizing.
ask.metafilter.com /mefi/46565   (3306 words)

  
 ceej: 24-Jan-01
My SGI cow-orkers were so fucking foul-mouthed that I quickly stopped caring when I heard the word.
My boss and my company's HR person were in my office for a while today, talking about "Pud" of Fucked Company.
The Fucked Company thing is so great, though the message boards are too horribly nasty for me. We all think the concept is hilarious.
www.blackbook.org /2001/01/010124.html   (818 words)

  
 BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » F****d 2.0
It’s hard for me to get up much sympathy for either the company or its bete noir, investor Bruce Sherman, who caused the company’s sale, or its purchasers — none of whom, I think, is really tackling the fundamental change that is called for today.
So if we stop looking at this as if it were the border between two worlds but instead one world operating under change, then we would find the ways for old to work with new, big with small, professional with amateur.
That may mean new companies acting as the laboratories and development arms for old ones.
www.buzzmachine.com /index.php/2006/08/28/fd-20   (1638 words)

  
 New York Press
Dotcoms continue to fail at such a rate that Fucked Company has become one of the top go-to sites for daily browsing.
And a lot of that was helped by the venture capitalists and investment banks, creating this ironclad relationship where the venture capitalists would bring in a company, the banks would promise great coverage and support, take them public, pump the stock–then the VCs would move on and individuals were left holding the bag...
By the end of 2000, as dotcoms and other tech companies continued to die or at least trim expenses, the ocean of ads they used to pour into the print tech magazines turned into a drought.
www.nypress.com /print.cfm?content_id=3699   (4292 words)

  
 F'd Companies - Philip J. Kaplan
There are a few money-making exceptions, and any number of companies with an Internet-presence that will continue to hang around, but there have been a large number of incredible failures as well.
Most of the book then is devoted to the companies that failed (some do still survive, in some form, but all failed spectacularly at some point or another).
Each company's generally ridiculous business plan is briefly described -- followed by some words on its sad but inevitable collapse.
www.complete-review.com /reviews/computer/kaplanpj.htm   (1246 words)

  
 LWN: Restarting free SourceForge development
VA was, at that time, very much an open source company, so releasing the code was a natural thing to do.
SourceForge remains a very expensive form of advertising for a company which has lost interest in free software; relying on its continued existence forever would be foolhardy.
Last I checked, the company was trading for it's cash value, i.e., investors don't think much of it.
lwn.net /Articles/17822   (694 words)

  
 Salon.com tech | Dot-com deathwatch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The site, whose name and logo play off the New Economy journal Fast Company, is a kind of riff off the Celebrity Dead Pool Web site, which lets fans guess at which of their favorite stars is doomed to die and rewards the winners.
All "fucks" have to be confirmed by the Web site Dotcomfailures, the sister site to Fuckedcompany created by Kaplan's roommate Ryan Nitz, which is attempting to chronicle each and every industry shakeout.
The most interesting part of the project, he says, is watching which companies are chosen as failures-to-be.
archive.salon.com /tech/log/2000/06/06/deadpool/index.html   (770 words)

  
 SolutionJunkie -- Doug Giuliana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
JC reports that Fucked Company has posted a very funny animation about Digital Entertainment Network.
Fucked Company also reports that there is a link between DEN and Enron.
Well, the focus required to grow the company must be replaced by the broad vision required to keep it there.
www.solutionjunkie.com /blog/archive/2002_06_01_archive.asp   (4030 words)

  
 Reason Magazine - Offshore Lore
Last week in a story one-part Pentagon Papers and three-parts Fucked Company, The New York Times jumped into a debate that has been simmering for several years in tech circles—the off-loading of jobs to places like India.
The Times also wrangled some absolutely jaw-dropping quotes that indicate corporate honchos expect to be able to bluff their way past questions about moving high-paying jobs offshore without anyone calling them on it.
It is a dangerous gambit which could produce the worst of all possible worlds: some sort of government hurdle requiring companies to demonstrate a "need" to out-source.
www.reason.com /news/show/33698.html   (607 words)

  
 Communities.com, in thecan.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
And the Investors said, "This Company is Fucked!" The True History, Part II 11/14/2000 01:09 AM EST II.
And the bales of $100 bills were eaten away, and the other Suits said, "This Company is Fucked!" The True History, Part III 11/14/2000 01:12 AM EST III.
That Which Is Fucked, Bringeth Forth New Life But the prophets prophesied, saying, "In the belly of that which is Fucked, sleepeth the Code which was shunned.
thecan.org /in/communities.html   (1099 words)

  
 Geek.com Geek News - The year of the dot-com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Mercury Center has a great article covering a number of e-commerce companies that spent a lot of money this year and ended up going out of business.
In the end it talks about a couple of companies that spent a lot and are still doing fine.
The ONLY reason PayPal did so well compared to the dozens of other companies offering the EXACT same service, is because every Ebay user uses PayPal - advertisements are right on the Ebay site and users are encouraged to use PayPal most of the time.
www.geek.com /news/geeknews/2000dec/gee20001227003520.htm   (617 words)

  
 Fast Company (magazine) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fast Company is a full-color monthly business magazine that reports on innovation, digital media, technology, change management, leadership, design and social responsibility.
In 2000, Fast Company was sold to Gruner and Jahr USA, a division of media giant Bertelsmann, for $350 million.
The magazine and its website is now owned by Mansueto Ventures, a private media company controlled by Joe Mansueto, the founder and CEO of mutual-fund rating company Morningstar.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fast_Company_magazine   (264 words)

  
 business in vegas (again)
We ended up taking the "Fucked Company" banner down because we were worried that people might think that we were saying that we were a fucked company because the airline lost our banner - instead of realizing that AdBrite's founder had started a website called FuckedCompany.
I remember that the only In-N-Out that was open was waaaaay the fuck across town and we bribed our driver into taking us there by offereing to buy him whatever the fuck he wanted.
When he hopped up out of the booth to run to the bathroom and wash his instantly frost-bitten fingers under some warm water, the amount of booze he'd consumed caught up with him and he fell out of the booth and almost sprawled out on the floor.
www.ikeepadiary.com /diary/2004/11_15_vegas/index.html   (1296 words)

  
 differences | Antimoon Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Nevertheless, it is still a vulgar word and its use is not recommended if you want to make a good impression on anyone in any way.
"Fucked up" can also be slank for "drunk" -- after two six-packs and half a bottle of tequila, he was all fucked up.
Without the word "fuck", most of us would be unable to truly express our sentiments honestly and in full when necessary....
www.antimoon.com /forum/t3053.htm   (306 words)

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