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Announcing Google for Entrepreneurs(googleblog.blogspot.com)
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by jtbigwoo 14y ago
It's funny that all these analyst can talk about such vague suggestions when it seems clear that different investors have clear motivations here. It's perfectly reasonable for Microsoft to hold on to their shares--even if facebook goes brok
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It's not that surprising to me. My friends and I compared offers out of college and then didn't talk at all about salary for over a decade. A couple years ago, I started asking around when I was considering a job offer. I found out that
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by jtbigwoo 14y ago
Amex and Diner's Club were the bad ones in my experience--regularly taking 30+ days to pay.
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I've worked at several companies that are more than twice the size of apple. I never knew very much of what was going on. It's not so much that the companies were secretive, but that there was no way I was going to know everything happeni
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by jtbigwoo 14y ago
IIRC, this sort of comparision is what started all this CEO salary inflation back in the late 70's/early 80's. The CEO's of billion dollar companies were being paid less than baseball players and cried foul.
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by jtbigwoo 14y ago
To my sixteen-year-old self: You're not a jock even though you've got a letter jacket. Be who you are rather than who you look like. To my eighteen-year-old self: That girl that sits on your lap sometimes before class? She probably likes
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by jtbigwoo 14y ago
Or Yahoo 360. What? It never launched? Well, she could do it on Yahoo Mash. Huh? Got shut down? Or she could post a link on Yahoo Buzz. What's that? Also dead? Crud, maybe she could post it to facebook.
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When I look back at the younger people I've helped hire, the biggest success factor was not necessarily whether he/she had been dedicated to school, per se. It was more important that they had dedicated themselves to something. A good g
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by jtbigwoo 14y ago
The whole thing does strike me as morally irresponsible in that a city with a persistent and undealt with homeless problem should not be limiting the availability of housing units until the blatant market failure has been dealt with. Red
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Despite the touching stories about financial ruin, the government has a legitimate interest in making sure B&B's are minimally safe and operate without disturbing neighbors. All of these "It's my property!" arguments are supremely disi
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In defense of these laws, that sort of thing was generally for a month or longer which is not against the law in New York. Short term stays were the domain of hotels.
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But in my defense, training workers is extremely expensive for a small shop like mine. I would have had to assign one of my better guys to the task full time for there to be any hope of success, and I simply could not afford to do that.
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by jtbigwoo 14y ago
The bigger those multiples are, the more "overpriced" a company is, so it should actually be less attractive of an investment. Right. The OP is considering the situation as a seller, not a buyer. He would be overjoyed if everything he s
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by jtbigwoo 14y ago
Technically that's correct, but it's a red herring. The top 1% currently take a little over 20% of the total income in the country and pay about 40% of federal income taxes. From the end of WW II to the 1980's, the top 1% took between abo
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by jtbigwoo 14y ago
At the mega-bank in my neighborhood, they try really hard to sell a line of credit to every business customer, even if it's only a couple thousand dollars. Their standard small business application package has a checking account, savings a
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by jtbigwoo 14y ago
One of the main differences in accountants is risk tolerance. Freelancers have considerable leeway in the way they structure their taxable income and accordingly can have considerable variation in their risk of an audit. Make sure you int
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JWT in Brazil turned filling out timesheets into something fun(youtube.com)
1 points by jtbigwoo 15y ago|0 comments
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At least back in the 1990's, French employers used all sorts of pseudo-scientific methods to screen employees. My sister applied to one school that asked for a birth date so they could consult an astrologer about the applicant's temperamen
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by jtbigwoo 15y ago
When I was looking at jobs teaching English in Japan and Korea, many of the postings asked for photos. It was the same when my sister was applying for jobs in France (they also asked for a handwriting sample, but that's another issue.) Su
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by jtbigwoo 15y ago
Peopleware has some great data about how listening to music can lower distractions but also reduces problem solving ability. The upshot was that test subjects could plow through code while listening to music, but tended to miss optimizatio
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by jtbigwoo 15y ago
A team room can be a great solution if it's done thoughtfully. The big drawback to private offices is that it can inhibit the cross-polination of projects that results in revolutionary ideas. A few rules about group offices that seem to h
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by jtbigwoo 15y ago
A sports-geek quibble: Babe Ruth also had the second-best career on-base-percentage in the history of baseball. He hit a ton of singles in addition to his home runs. He was an incredible athlete and defied the current mindset to try for h
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by jtbigwoo 15y ago
An asset like gold behaves differently under bubble conditions than an asset like a tech stock, tulip, or house. The production of those things is price elastic, and rising prices cause rising production that ultimately crashes the bubble.
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Many companies have what basically amounts to a board exchange where a high-ranking official from company A serves on the board of company B which has an official on company C's board and company C has an official on company A's board. In
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Small companies don't generally change the world until they become big companies.
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What if he's making a moneyball-type play and doesn't even know it? High-level Microsoft engineers are fairly valued or slightly overvalued by the job market as a whole. When hiring for a startup, he should be looking for undervalued asset
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I'm kind of busy actually making things. Union Square Ventures is not looking for someone who likes to make things. They're looking for someone who likes networking and getting noticed. Or to put it another way, they're looking for some
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Am I the only one who sees tons of red flags the moment a job opening requires a video? It feels to me like the ivy league tradition of the in-person interview. Ivy league administrators tell themselves it's easier to judge an applicant's
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by jtbigwoo 15y ago
Hacking your day to start later only works until you have kids unless you have somebody else to watch them. Post-kids you're pretty much doomed to follow the same schedule as everybody else unless you get up earlier.

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