moschopsPremium
join:2003-12-20
Oakland, CA | The new CEO executive invasion effect I can easily believe SunRocket was the victim of a CEO lead executive explosion. I've seen it in so many other companies where the board insists they go find a big name CEO to give them some street creed. Next thing you know not only do they have a high priced golden helloed, golden handcuffed, golden parachuted CEO, he's hiring all his get-rich quick friends as executives too. Pretty soon you've got millions of extra dollars in salary on your books and options flying out of the door like butterflies.
My girlfriend saw this happen to the company she was at when they hired a former Amazon.com executive as CEO and he replaced her role in the finance department with ten guys who still couldn't do the job. The number of Porsches in the parking lot skyrocketed, as revenue plummeted and expenses soared. So a company that was just finally breaking even went to losing millions... Part of that was some bone headed deal to pay AOL over $20m for advertising on their home page - just when AOL was about to start tanking.
I'm not at all surprised to hear similar stuff about AOL executives at SunRocket! Companies need to be really careful about CEOs that they hire, and examine their track record at previous companies really carefully. |
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 koitsuPremium,MVM
join:2002-07-16
Mountain View, CA
kudos:14 | said by moschops:Pretty soon you've got millions of extra dollars in salary on your books and options flying out of the door like butterflies. ... The number of Porsches in the parking lot skyrocketed, as revenue plummeted and expenses soared. The DOT-COM mentality continues to lives on. Some people learned from the bubble bursting, others considered it a temporary setback. Until we Americans stop worshipping money, history will continue to repeat itself.
F**kedCompany _still_ continues to have lots of updates -- some good, some bad.
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Iam a former Sunrocket user I switched over to packet8 and the sevice is good so far. The only problem is when they shipped my box they made a mistake and shipped two boxes and charged me for two accounts! now they have cancelled the second accound and I have to pay the shipping to return the send box even though it was not my fault a mistake was made! also they tryed to say my account wass set up by a resaler but it wasent, I had written the ladys number that set up my account and her dirrect line at packet8. This is very bad customer service! So foor now anyone thinking about packet8 I would look elsewhere for service. |
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moschopsPremium
join:2003-12-20
Oakland, CA | I've had good experiences with Sipphone so far, its supported by the softphone Gizmoproject but compatible with all standard ATAs you can by for $50 or less).
I like it because you only pay for what you need, there's no monthly commitment to a calling plan like Packet8 or Vonage. And to my mind all these all-you-can-eat plans just lead to overuse by some people and low end users end up paying for that.
With Sipphone if you only need to make calls that's all you pay for, rates start at $0.019 a minute to all of North America and most of Europe. If you need an incoming phone number to receive calls then pay for just 3 months or 12 months of incoming number ($12 or $35 respectively) - buy as many numbers as you need. So your minimum commitment to try it out can be just $10 for 500 minutes worth of calling and you can go from there if you like it.
And I like that I can go buy my own unlocked hardware and do with it whatever I want - my Grandstream HT-503 lets me do all kinds of cool stuff like being a gateway from SIP to landline or the reverse, and automatic failover to landline service for 911 and local calls (I still have a landline for DSL access).
To be honest I've no idea if Sipphone will be the next SunRocket but they seem to be keeping it low key and not blowing a ton of cash on advertising or trying to hook people into big pre-pay deals that they will probably lose money on. |
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