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Warren Buffett On Housing Market: I Was 'Dead Wrong'
OMAHA, Neb. — Billionaire investor Warren Buffett said Saturday that he was "dead wrong" with a prediction that the U.S. housing market would begin to recover by now, but he remains optimistic about the nation's economy. In his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, Buffett said he is sure housing will recover eventually and help bring down the nation's unemployment rate. But he did not predict when that will happen. Investors eagerly await the letter from Buffett, 81, the so-called Oracle of Omaha, who built a roughly $44 billion fortune by following a steadfast, no-nonsense investing strategy. Buffett said housing "remains in a depression of its own," but he predicted, in typical plainspoken style, that the housing market will come back because some human factors can't be denied forever. "People may postpone hitching up during uncertain times, but eventually hormones take over," he wrote. The housing prediction proved painful for Berkshire Hathaway. Online:
How To Avoid Hiring The Wrong Person For Your Startup
Chris Rickborn is the COO and co-founder for Unrabble, a cloud-computing hiring software company that helps busy startups make great hires. In a startup, hiring a new employee can be a business-changing event. The smaller the organization, the more impact each employee has on its ultimate success. Don’t get me wrong — hiring is critical in any size of company, but larger organizations have the ability to orient and train new employees to an extent that startups can’t offer. In a large company, if a new employee fails, the work can be redistributed and absorbed by other employees without having a significant impact. Here are five tips to help you avoid hiring the wrong person for your startup. 1. Writing lengthy job descriptions loaded with job requirements may keep unqualified candidates from wasting your time, but you’ve also just given every candidate a cheat sheet. 2. Startups move fast, and every position is a skilled position. 3. 4. 5. What other tips do you have?
Droga5 Creative Invents Adhesive Bandages That Save Lives
Next time you cut your finger and need an adhesive bandage, you could save someone's life in the process. Not your own life, of course—unless that paper cut is particularly deep. You could save someone else's life—someone who needs a bone-marrow transplant—thanks to Graham Douglas, a creative at Droga5. Douglas has come up with an ingenious way of spurring marrow-donor registrations—he's getting Help Remedies to package donor kits with its adhesive bandage products. All you need is a drop of blood to complete the registration—a drop that may well be available if you're reaching for a bandage.
8 Strategies for Launching a Brand Presence on Pinterest
Charles Nicholls is an expert in ecommerce, web analytics, social media marketing and online buyer behavior. He is also founder and chief strategy officer at shopping cart recovery company SeeWhy. You can follow Charles on Twitter @webconversion and read his blog. Many marketers have heard of Pinterest, but despite this, most brands have yet to hop on the hottest new social network. Pinterest has quickly become one of the top five referring traffic sources for several apparel retailers. Despite the powerful numbers, most brands and merchandisers are not present on Pinterest. For those brands looking to develop a Pinterest presence, try these seven simple steps. 1. Just like you would reserve a Twitter handle for your brand, secure a Pinterest user name. Some brands have jumped in to reserve their spaces without yet posting any content, including Karen Millen and Diane von Furstenberg. 2. Think color, style and brand values. 3. For example, West Elm built an "aquamarine" mood board. 4.
How To Treat Your Employees
Editor’s note: James Altucher is an investor, programmer, author, and entrepreneur. He has started and sold several companies, run a VC fund, and is an active investor in many private companies. His latest books are I Was Blind But Now I See and 40 Alternatives to College. You can follow him on Twitter @jaltucher. Wade had sex with Karen and now I had to fire him. She was our top designer. Wade had caught the disease. The disease spreads in stairwells. When I was a kid one of my friends told me he got a blowjob every weekend in the stairwell at Quakerbridge Mall near the movie theater. Fucking stairwells. L. was crying when she called me and asked me to meet her at the cafe across the street from work. She was a project manager working at my first company. L. was still crying. One word can destroy people. We want to be loved and when it’s not returned by those in authority we just feel horrible. Ten years later, almost to the day, I took my daughter Mollie to the same store. Abracadabra.
Top10 strangest beer commercials
Ranging from ‘WTF’ weird to ‘offensive-on-so-many-levels’ weird, these beer commercials come to you from across the world and the internet. Note that we use the criteria ‘strange’, ‘beer’ and ‘commercial’ very loosely, and please also note that numbers 6 and 3 contain blood. On that note, we bring you this instalment of Marketing‘s Top10 – the strangest beer commercials we could find: 10. Japanese beer for kids This one is last because it’s not actually beer – but it is a drink coloured, packaged and promoted to resemble beer, marketed to kids. If you can’t see the videos below, please refresh this page 9. Not as strange in content as some of the others, the weirdness here is wondering why Bud wanted the audience to associate the smell of burning horse gas with their beverage. 8. Even the ad is old style… because it is, well, old. 7. SERIOUS WARNING: This ad was a joint venture with a Sea Shepherd anti-whaling campaign about 5 years ago. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. Related posts
Why Social Media Will Disappear
In the 1960’s the “Madmen of Madison” Avenue were challenged as the age of television forever changed the advertising and marketing landscape. The arrival of color television in 1961 was rapidly becoming an integral part of the family home and engaged millions of people with captivating television shows, news as it happened and movies. The advertising agencies had to reinvent themselves as the new technology became widespread and by 1979 over 300 million televisions were occupying the corners of peoples living rooms. 50 years ago the choices of media were simple compared to today with essentially only a few media types. Related Resources from B2C» Free Webcast: Hooked: How to Build Habit Forming Products RadioNewspaperMagazineCinemaTelevisionTheatrePoster In 2012 we have a smorgasbord of media including CD’s, podcasts, blogs, online video, online photos, iTunes, satellite radio, mobile phone, tablets, email, Internet, TiVo and video recorders. Just to name a few! The Age of Media Convergence
