istherelifeonmars commented on Insider alleges massive turnover at LinkedIn

"Well Whaddya know - the very same thing is happening at Adbrite - another Mark Kvamme/Sequoia backed company."

istherelifeonmars commented on AdBrite fires top sales guy, considers cutting lunches

"wow - can you give us any more hints ?"

istherelifeonmars commented on AdBrite fires top sales guy, considers cutting lunches

"Not so long ago ..... AdBrite rocks with Live Nation by Jim Benton May 9, 2008 at 2:21 pm Today the AdBrite team is proud to join with Live Nation - the world's largest live music company - in announcing Live Nation eFan Finder, an exciting new service that leverages AdBrite's technology and brings lots of new concert promotion advertising to the AdBrite marketplace. fast forward to yesterday ..."

istherelifeonmars commented on Execs flee AdBrite

"Not so long ago ..... AdBrite rocks with Live Nation by Jim Benton May 9, 2008 at 2:21 pm Today the AdBrite team is proud to join with Live Nation - the world's largest live music company - in announcing Live Nation eFan Finder, an exciting new service that leverages AdBrite's technology and brings lots of new concert promotion advertising to the AdBrite marketplace. and an example of that technology ..... www.efanfinder.com uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is only valid for the following names: *.adbrite.com , adbrite.com (Error code: ssl_error_bad_cert_domain) No wonder Jim is leaving - f'd by engineering and operations ......"

istherelifeonmars commented on Execs flee AdBrite

"Yeah - I think that was Kevin Weatherman's joke about engineering.On Bob-Big-Boy , the fuzio spaghetti and meatballs were a particular problem - and I think he expensed the tupperware containers to take the food home to his wife and starving children."

istherelifeonmars commented on Execs flee AdBrite

"Well you can't fault Iggy's innate ability to pick the right metaphor."