How to evaluate a recruiter

DFN: Good insights into what a recruiter is trying to get from you in an interview: 1) Business Focus 2) Problem Solving 3) Agility 4) Purpose. If the recruiter you’ve talked with on a ‘phone screen’ doesn’t ask question designed to get this insight about you, run!
How To Evaluate A Job & Career Recruiter
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Problems can be opportunities in disguise

DFN: I often wonder why I have so many problems, now I know, there being thrown at me to challenge my leadership qualities and to help me grow. I need more problems!!
Problems Can Be Opportunities in Disguise
11/07/2009 – Denis Waitley
One of the most desirable attitudes of a leader is an ability to view problems as [...]

Valuation and Option Pool

DFN: I’m about to begin valuing a startup, so personally, the article is very timely and talks about valuation in terms that even I can understand. You should really use the url below, to see all the ins and outs covered by the vast number of responses to the original post.
Valuation And Option Pool
Fred Wilson [...]

Supreme Court Case could stifle innovation

DFN: If companies don’t get patents on business process / software the pace of innovation will slow. It would be disastrous if this ruling is retroactive versus going forward.
Patent case before Supreme Court could have major implications for software
By: JOELLE TESSLER
Associated Press
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/economy/ap/69462867.html
11/07/09 12:35 PM EST WASHINGTON — With the technology industry looking on, the Supreme [...]

Dealing with a Spouse’s Layoff

DFN: GREAT article summarizing the feelings and effective solutions about how to deal with a spouse’s being laid off. FYI, my wife and I are now a two income household, we’re both receiving unemployment checks from the State of California. This is an example of how I try to deal with unemployment, by retaining a [...]

Unemployed facing new kind of job hunt

DFN: Details the challenges and the rewards of facing a job search in today’s market. Reward, I say, because its very gratifying when people that you really don’t know, reach out to help. This is a key to today’s job market and recovering from unemployment. FYI, rather than call it a job hunt, I’d prefer [...]

Unemployment and airplane crashes

DFN: Politics aside, this is pretty witty and informative at the same time. Great analogy about the derivation of unemployment. Good insights, of little solace, if your unemployed.
Unemployment and airplane crashes
By Jame Fallows
07 Nov 2009 12:05 pm
http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/11/unemployment_and_airplane_cras.php
A man in Florida sends what may be the ideal example of reader mail, combining as it does aerodynamic [...]

What Facebook, Twitter and Paypal teach us about going viral

DFN: Interesting article regarding ‘viral’ marketing and the synergies that have to exist between seemingly unrelated business entities for each to be successful.
What Facebook, Twitter, PayPal can teach us about going viral
By David Silverberg
11/07/2009 @ 3AM PST
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/281735
Going viral isn’t a finger-snap way to achieve mass popularity. In fact, as author Adam L. Penenberg explains to [...]

Excavation at Saqqara

DFN: I think this is the first of a series of articles on the Eygptians.
Saturday, November 07, 2009
A history of archaeology and excavation at Saqqara
Heritage Key (Jonathan Yeomans)
http://egyptology.blogspot.com/2009/11/feature-history-of-archaeology-and.html
The cemetery at Saqqara is one of the most important archaeological sites in Egypt. Over six kilometres long, it boasts thousands of underground burial sites, as well as [...]