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NY releases grim stats on percentage of grads who are "college ready"(nytimes.com)
30 points by msabalau 16y ago|29 comments
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by msabalau 16y ago
Would there be an opportunity to hire undervalued local talent if you were export focused, and didn't care about the local market?
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by msabalau 16y ago
Interesting observatiom. It's not clear to me though, why the author is attributing this behavior to a generation, rather than simply to the group of people who use tools and forums that multiply the number of weak ties they have.
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by msabalau 16y ago
Interesting article. I'm not certain I understand the complaint about the non-existent marketing campaign. According to the author, they sold a million boxes, but lost two thirds of the subscribers in the first month, and kept losing them t
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by msabalau 16y ago
I imagine the reason the reason why many non profits ask about a discount is because it's common to grant one. It seems likely that the firms offering those discounts are doing so not "out of the goodness of their heart" because their exper
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by msabalau 16y ago
The Social Security trust fund has begun selling off it's very large supply of government bonds. This is exactly why the trust fund accumulated these assets. If a person or private pension fund accumulated a large supply of bonds in order t
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by msabalau 16y ago
While no reasonable person would expect the CEO of a large company to personally attend to every customer issue that randomly reached them, it's hardly a bad thing if the bubble of yes men is pierced. I can't help but imagine that a company
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by msabalau 17y ago
I think highly of both companies, although my use of each has varied dramatically depending on my circumstances. When I owned a car, and lived in the suburbs, Enterprise was great because I already had insurance coverage. When I needed to r
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by msabalau 17y ago
FYI: The Thirsty Scholar has Trivia Sunday nights at 8, and it's pretty popular, so you might want to get there a bit early to grab a table.
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by msabalau 17y ago
Of course the nice thing about investing more in sales and marketing during a downturn is that the costs are lower.