GeekMBA360

It’s pathetic.
One friend hasn’t gotten any pay raise for three years. He works for a Fortune 500 company and he had no performance issues.
Most people I knew got 2-5%  annual pay increase in the past couple of years.
Even if you switch jobs, the pay raise is no longer the 10-25% you can normally [...]

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Yesterday I wrote about the pressure of living in the bay area due to high cost of living. Today, I’m going to write about a fascinating story of how one family made it all worked out although their household income was less than $70K.
Uncle John is a long-time family friend. On New Year eve, Uncle [...]

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I had been a reader of Ramit Sethi’s I Will Teach You To Be Rich blog since its inception. At that time, Ramit just graduated from Stanford University. Honestly, I thought Ramit was just another one of those arrogant young graduates of top universities — how could a young college graduate with little real-world experience [...]

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Yesterday, Fred Wilson had an interesting post about his reaction to Technorati’s State of Blogsphere report :
"I’ve had about 150k visitors per month for several years now. My audience is stable but flat. I get about 100k visitors per month on my website and another 50k via my feed. [...]

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Recently I took on a consulting project. A fast-growing flower/plant retailer was looking for someone to help figure out what’s wrong with their online selling channel — the revenue has dropped by 90% in the past 3 months. After an initial discussion, both the [...]

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