The Brilliant Way To Negotiate In Three Easy Lessons Editor’s note: James Altucher is an investor, programmer, author, and entrepreneur. He is Managing Director of Formula Capital and has written 6 books on investing. His latest book is I Was Blind But Now I See. You can follow him @jaltucher. When I was reading Walter Isaacson’s biography on Steve Jobs it suddenly brought back memories of the FBI repeatedly hitting the buzzer for my apartment rather forcefully ten years ago. Isaacson mentions that Steve Jobs and Dr. The next thing I know, someone is ringing my buzzer, “The police! Uhhh. Let’s hold off on that for a second. A) First off, what a great name. B) Second, when Larry was running Google.org I had an idea for him and after all we went through (the FBI?) C) The most valuable thing I learned from Larry Brilliant was when we were taking a break in 1999 from looking at an ancient coin collection being held in the World Trade Center. The reason I asked is because I consider myself a good salesperson. How to Negotiate: Simple formula.
What Job Seekers Need to Know in Today’s Digital Market Jindrich Liska is founder and CEO of Jobmagic, a leading social recruiting platform which enables employers to hire candidates on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Jindrich has pioneered many social recruiting approaches which are now used worldwide by brands such as Disney, J.Crew and Compuware. The 2011 job market is ending on a positive note. With unemployment shrinking to a mere 8.6% — its lowest level since May 2008 — and a steadily growing economy, businesses are planning on hiring and recruiting even more as their confidence in customer demand builds. In this new, growing market, those seeking their next dream job should cultivate their presence and contacts strategically in places where employers will be on the lookout for the best talent. Here's the scoop on what job seekers should know in order to be successful in today’s digital job market. Your Social Media Profiles Are as Important as Your Resume (If Not More Important) 80% of Success is Showing up Social Media Job Listings
50,000 Health IT Jobs: HIMSS, HR Gurus Want You - Healthcare - Leadership Healthcare sees need for 50,000 more IT workers to support implementation of electronic health records and health information exchange. HIMSS and ASHHRA partner to get the word out. The largest health IT membership organization is joining with a healthcare human resources group to help promote health IT workforce development and find qualified candidates in a field with a serious labor shortage. The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), and the American Society for Healthcare Human Resources Administration (ASHHRA) have agreed to collaborate on efforts to attract job seekers to health IT. They will share links, white papers, educational programs, and other resources on each other's website, and generally promote health IT as a career path. "Both organizations hit it at a different angle," Helen Figge, senior director for career services at HIMSS, told InformationWeek Healthcare. [Which healthcare organizations came out ahead in the IW500 competition? More Insights
The World's Best Places To Live And Work One of your New Year's resolutions is probably to better balance your professional life with your personal life. If not, it should be. So how do you accomplish this? Perhaps the easiest thing to do is move to a country where the locals are already very happy with their work-life balance. In October, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) published the results of a survey of Work-Life Balance in its member countries. The average length of the workday.The employment rate of women with children.The time responders devoted to leisure and personal care, which includes sleep. The rationale behind these factors: Children with one working parent are three times more likely to grow up in poverty than children with two working parents.
Become a Millionaire on a Minimum-Wage Salary Who wants to be a millionaire? Who wouldn't want to be? But for those on the lower end of the pay scale, striving to achieve a seven-figure net worth probably seems futile. But it can be done. With the U.S. minimum wage paying $7.25 an hour -- that amounts to $14,500 over the course of a full-time 2,000 work-hour year -- becoming a millionaire on a minimum-wage salary wouldn't be easy to accomplish by any stretch of the imagination. Even in the cheapest parts of the country, housing, health, food, utilities, clothing, and transportation costs need to be covered before investing makes sense. But if you can live cheaply enough on it, and if you had long enough to go before retiring, it could be enough to let you retire a millionaire. How It's Possible Let's say you had that audacious goal of becoming a minimum-wage millionaire by the time you retired at age 70. Source: Author calculations. Three things should quickly jump out at you from that table: The Most Promising Path
The Business Case for Hiring College Grads — 32 Reasons They Can Produce a High ROI College hiring is about to ramp up again — and the very best college recruiting organizations would argue it ramped up several months back — so now is an opportune time to conduct an ROI analysis to determine when and where you should hire college grads instead of experienced hires. Understanding the unique competencies and skills that college students bring to a business is important not just in determining the number needed, but where to place them. As a college professor and someone that advises firms on the design of college recruiting programs, I have come up with a long list of the advantages of hiring recent graduates. If you’re not seeing these attributes in your recent college hires, interns, or those you are courting, the problem is most likely a result of major weaknesses in your recruiting process and not with “this latest generation” of college students. The Business Benefits of Hiring Recent College Grads Shorter-term Benefits of Hiring College Students
How To Build An Audience On The Internet: The Kevin Rose School Vs. The Fred Wilson School Editor’s note: This guest post is written by Tom Anderson, the former President, founder and first friend on MySpace. You can now find Tom on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ What kind of content creator are you? Kevin Rose or Fred Wilson? Blogging or “self-publishing” in any form was supposed to democratize and revolutionize the media industry. Three days ago, Kevin Rose posted this on Google+: “Decided to forward to my Google+. Kevin’s decision was made rapidly, and may well be reversed when it suits his needs. Where to host your content is a tricky issue. And again, this is not just an issue for bloggers. Phrasing the issue in a new way, and perhaps a better way is: Should a content creator go to his audience, or should he expect his audience to come to him? In the offline world, most writers would never think to publish their own magazine or newspaper. That model of posting everything on your own domain might have worked in the earlier days of the Internet.
Free Market-Research Tools -- A Sampler Small businesses can tap a variety of free resources for insights about customers, competitors and trends. Before Darlene Tenes, founder of CasaQ in San Jose, Calif., sinks a lot of money into new designs for Christmas ornaments, she sends sketches to retail and wholesale clients. They report back through questionnaires she creates on the online research service SurveyMonkey, and their reactions influence which designs become decorations. "If you have four choices and there's a strong reaction [like] 'I love it. I would absolutely buy it,' then you know it's a seller," says Tenes, whose ornaments and other products reflect Hispanic culture. SurveyMonkey is only one of a wealth of free tools and resources that can help you gather valuable market-research information. Survey Monkey Basic Survey Monkey Portland, Ore.www.surveymonkey.comCost: Free. BizStats Brandow Co. Related: Five Affordable Consumer Research Tools Related: A New Way to Crowdsource Customer Feedback Census.gov U.S.
Microsoft, Intel, Cisco (MIC) – Can The Troika Grow Again? (Part 2) Having discussed Microsoft in part 1 of this article , we will now examine its main hardware partner, Intel. Intel The Wintel combination has dominated the PC era since its beginning, and continues until today. Hence, no wonder when Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT [FREE Stock Trend Analysis] ) stalls, so does Intel (NASDAQ: INTC ). In essence, both companies were attacked by Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL ) and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG ), who tried to make the PC obsolete. However, Microsoft is a software company, while Intel is a semiconductor company, so their businesses are very different, and the challenges for them are quite different. Some of the notable differences are: On a PC, Intel can sell only 1 set of CPU, or chipset for each PC (or more specifically, a Wintel platform), but Microsoft can sell multiple set of programs, such as its operating system, its Office Suite, PC games, etc. (c) 2013 Benzinga.com.
Who Should You Be Thanking? - Dorie Clark by Dorie Clark | 9:10 AM January 5, 2012 For good executives, it’s second nature to show appreciation toward clients and staff. But often, we overlook less obvious people who have made a difference in our professional lives. The other day, I was talking with a client about his growth plans for 2012 — which, he knew, would depend heavily on word-of-mouth. He wanted to strategize about cultivating new referral sources — but in the process, I realized a major chunk of his existing business was the result of one woman. Mentors are another category you might risk forgetting to thank. Also, think about people who helped you in the past. Finally, don’t forget the people around the people in power. What’s the best way to express your thanks? Who are you thanking this year?
The Declaration of Insurance Independence Dave Chase is the founder and CEO of Avado, a TechCrunch Disrupt NYC finalist. Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthcare practice and was the founder of Microsoft’s Health business. This is Part I of a two-part post. You can follow him on Twitter @chasedave. The scale of the Do-it-Yourself (DIY) Health Reform movement is dramatically bigger than I realized when writing about how that movement could affect the Talent Wars taking place in the tech community. Neither of the first two waves dramatically altered the landscape for healthcare. Protesting Healthcare Taxation With Bureaucratization The summary of the Declaration of Insurance Independence is as follows: Healthcare’s perverse incentives and an accompanying stifling bureaucracy driven by encumbering day-to-day healthcare with insurance has caused hyperinflation that is crushing family, employer and government budgets and holding back job growth. New Care & Payment Models Spurring New Health IT Categories
Latest Job-matchmaking Site Will Focus on MBAs We began 2011 talking about new “matchmaker” job sites starting up. As 2011 progressed, as Jeff Dickey-Chasins said, such sites, some more art than science, “proliferated.” A year later, we’re not done yet. At least one new site is hoping to join the bunch. Better Weekdays is working on its site and on spreading the word among potential customers. Those small/medium companies, Better Weekdays figures, are less likely to have much of an HR department, and could use Better Weekdays to hire someone, probably with a pay-per-hire model, rather than a pay-per posting. “Hasn’t this all been tried before?”
A Snapshot Of Zynga’s Financials: Revenues Grew 392 Percent Last Year To $600 Million Zynga finally filed for its IPO today, and we now we get to take a look at its financials. At a high level, the company made nearly $600 million in revenues last year, and $90 million in profits. It grew at an incredible pace, with revenues growing 392 percent in 2010, up from $121.5 million in 2009 (and up from $19 million in 2008). In just the first quarter of 2011 alone, the company’s revenues reached $235 million (or a $940 million revenue run-rate), and that was up 134 percent from the first quarter of 2010. What is particularly amazing about all of these revenue growth numbers is that Zynga started paying Facebook 30 percent of all Facebook Credits-related revenues starting in July, 2010, and only barely skipped a beat. Sequential revenue growth slowed from 32 percent in Q3 2010 to 15 percent in Q4 2010, but then accelerated again to 20 percent growth in Q1 2011. The good news for investors is that Zynga actually makes a profit. Here is how Zynga explains Bookings in the S-1: