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Category: Business

Cauldron of Friction

Tweet The past week has been an interesting one for the dissection of the entrepreneur. Forbes had a great article: Are You A Humpty-Dumpty Entrepreneur, which discussed the difference between a workaholic and an entrepreneur (short answer: workaholics enjoy working; entrepreneurs enjoy doing). Jessica Mah, one of my favorite young entrepreneurs, wrote: Why 99% of [...]

So You Want To Hire Me?

Tweet I was reading my friend, Walter’s blog recently (he is a relatively new blogger, and its fun to see him start to write more frequently), where he talked about an aspect of his job: interviewing. Early in my career, I interviewed hundreds of people. I ran call centers and had large staffs. I enjoyed [...]

Should Companies Blog?

Tweet Yes. That might make this the shortest blog post in the history of this blog. But why? Dammit. There is always that. I had a conversation this morning with a startup executive who said, “I really think a blog would be good for us, but my CEO doesnt really agree. Given all of our [...]