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You just got laid off. Or you think that you will be laid off in a few months. You have just started working on your MBA application. You’re worried how your unemployment will affect your resume and MBA application. Over the past couple of months, I have received a number of emails regarding applying business [...]

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I first noticed the popularity of Netbook during this past Christmas season. Costco was carrying two brands of Netbook computers (Acer Aspire One and HP Mini .) They were all sold out within a couple of weeks. According to data from Gartner, in third quarter of 2008, 5.6 million Netbook computers were shipped compared to [...]

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A new coffee shop opened for business about a year ago near my house. Folks in my community were very excited about it. We live in a newly planned community that has very few shops nearby. A cafe would be a great place for us to meet. Our community also has a number of work/live [...]

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A lot have been written about the demise of newspapers. The newspaper industry seems to blame technology, proliferation of free content on the web, and Internet advertising model. I want to share something that I’ve experienced since I started this blog six months ago. The traffic for this blog has been growing 50%+ each month. [...]

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Question from a reader I’ve been a software developer for seven years now. I’m getting tired of coding. I’d like to transition to product management. What should I do? My answer Making a career transition is never easy. The key is that you must leverage your strength while identifying opportunity to demonstrate you’re  capable of [...]

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Tip from a fellow reader: Tocquigny, ranked as the #2nd best b2b digital marketing firm behind Digitas, cuts 13% of their workforce. Are we going to see more layoffs in the advertising agency worlds? I think so. Ad spending is dropping, and agency’s main cost drivers are people. Recommended posts Ten things you should do [...]

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Bank of America has become the first U.S. bank to withdraw job offers made to foreign M.B.A. students graduating from U.S. business schools this summer. I wouldn’t be surprised that other banks and companies will follow Bank of America’s lead. This could trigger a series of chain reactions: Leading U.S. business schools have been recruiting [...]

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New York Times has an interesting profile of Evan Williams, C.E.O. of Twitter Inc. My favorite quotes from the article: "My life has been a series of well-orchestrated accidents; I’ve always suffered from hallucinogenic optimism. I was broke for more than 10 years. I remember staying up all night one night at my first company [...]

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According to this report , "US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is practically alone on the job, working night and day to cope with the worst economic downturn in decades. Unemployment figures which revealed Friday that 651,000 jobs were lost in February, showed the recession is running ever deeper, but Geithner, who started work in late [...]

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Twelve years ago, when I was an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley, I was very fortunate to take the Fuzzy Logic course taught by the legendary Professor Zadeh, who invented the field of Fuzzy Logic. The class not only introduced a very exciting new field to me, but also taught me to look at our [...]

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