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This past Wednesday Fed cuts its benchmark interest rate target by 50 basis points to 1%. I’m wondering what will happen next. Given the direction our economy is going, Fed probably needs to keep cutting its rate. But, it’s already 1%. How much more can they cut? It’s actually conceivable that the Fed will cut [...]

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"The worst part about this company is that HR won’t listen to me. They don’t really care about me as an employee. I cannot talk to them about my problems and frustrations." A friend complained to me about a Fortune-500 company he has worked for seven years. I told him that he didn’t really understand [...]

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If you haven’t read Part 1 of this series, please read Should you go back to business school to hide from recession? (Part 1) before you read this post. Below is my list of top 4 compelling reasons to justify going back to business school: You want to make a career transition to a new [...]

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I applied for business school when the dotcom bubble was bursting in 2001.  Many people told me that I was lucky to attend an excellent business school from 2002 to 2004 because my timing was great — I was able to "hide" myself in business school (and presumably "partying and having a good time") while [...]

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"I just got laid off. I’m shocked. What am i going to do now?" — i just talked to someone a couple of days ago. He was completely shocked about being laid off by a large Internet company. He asked me to practice job interview with him, but he was having a hard time to [...]

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I have been waiting for such an article — Ho Nam, a venture capitalist from Altos Ventures, had a great post about his different perspective on Sequoia’s "R.I.P Good Time" meeting/presentation. In case you haven’t seen the "R.I.P" slides, GigaOM has a detailed post. Since the "R.I.P Good Time" slides were leaked to the press, [...]

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I don’t have the crystal ball to predict the future. I’m not an economist by any stretch of imagination. But, I’d like to offer my observations on this from my own experience. After all, I worked with outsourced operations at almost every single job I had. Observations Outsourcing to China is mostly in the manufacturing [...]

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A reader emailed me recently for helping on cover letter. I thought our email Q&A might be helpful to others as well. To protect privacy, I have made some minor changes to our conversation. Hope this will be helpful to folks who are in similar situation. Q: I came across an article you had written [...]

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“You know what, I have to expect I’m gonna lose my job. So what am I going to do about that? You either let it happen to you and be a victim in this economy or you say, "I’m not going to be a victim." – Arlene Battishill, founder and CEO, ScooterGirls, Inc. I heard [...]

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Silicon Alley Insider reported that Amazon (AMZN) makes a push into the world of casual gaming with the acquisition of Reflexive Entertainment. The article mentioned that "Not clear what Amazon’s thinking is here." I think I have some ideas about the rationale behind this acquisition. In the retail world, business is managed by categories (e.g. [...]

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