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A Word on Career Fairs

March 25th, 2010 in News

Here is why I believe career fairs are not the best way to find an opening: all of the best jobs are taken by those who “go to the job”, while those who wait for the job to come to them (come career fairs) get whatever mediocre openings are left over after the ones who took initiative had their pick.

Google

Google’s Super Bowl Ad

February 7th, 2010 in Marketing

Google took today’s super bowl as the perfect opportunity to run its first ever television advertisement. The ad ran in the third quarter of the game and was hinted it at in a tweet by CEO Eric Schimdt who said “hell would freeze over” in refernce to the Super Bowl a few days before the event.

AM Beat Wire

Week’s Top Posts from AM Beat Wire

February 5th, 2010 in News

AM Beat Wire is our social bookmarking website for business news targeted towards entrepreneurs and marketers. Every day users submit links and vote on dozens of business/entrepreneurship related stories from around the web and the most popular stories are displayed on the front page. Every week, we highlight a few of the most popular links from the Wire here.

AM Beat Wire

Week’s Top Posts from AM Beat Wire

January 29th, 2010 in News

AM Beat Wire is our social bookmarking website for business news targeted towards entrepreneurs and marketers. Every day users submit links and vote on dozens of business/entrepreneurship related stories from around the web and the most popular stories are displayed on the front page. Every week, we highlight a few of the most popular links from the Wire here.

NBC Bay Area

AM Beat Featured on NBC Bay Area

January 26th, 2010 in Entrepreneurship

I was fortunate enough to be interviewed on NBC Bay Area a couple of days and thought I’d share the video interview here. The video is about an entrepreneurship scholarship I received from Andrew Mckelvey, the founder of Monster.com, which was recently retracted due to economic hardship and the passing of Mr. McKelvey. All the scholars started an effort to regain some of the lost scholarship money and the video reports on our efforts.

AM Beat Wire

Week’s Top Posts from AM Beat Wire

January 22nd, 2010 in News

AM Beat Wire is our social bookmarking website for business news targeted towards entrepreneurs and marketers. Every day users submit links and vote on dozens of business/entrepreneurship related stories from around the web and the most popular stories are displayed on the front page. Every week, we highlight a few of the most popular links from the Wire here.

AM beat Wire

Week’s Top Posts from AM Beat Wire

January 18th, 2010 in News

AM Beat Wire is our social bookmarking website for business news targeted towards entrepreneurs and marketers. Every day users submit links and vote on dozens of business/entrepreneurship related stories from around the web and the most popular stories are displayed on the front page. Every week, we highlight a few of the most popular links from the Wire here.

Zynga

Buy Virtual Corn in Farmville and Donate Real Food to Haiti

January 15th, 2010 in News

The devastation from the magnitude 7.0 Earthquake that hit Haiti has been enormous and companies and individuals from across the world have been starting campaigns to help aid releif efforts in the area. One of the more unique ways a tech company is doing its part comes from Zynga, the maker of popular online social games such as Farmville and MafiaWars, both of which have millions of users on Facebook.

Google China

Chinese Citizens Show Gratitude to Google’s Move

January 13th, 2010 in News

In case you haven’t heard, the tech world is abuzz with Google’s news that it is planning on uncensoring Google.cn, the Chinese version of the search engine and that this approach could mean the end of Google’s China operations. The differences between Google’s search results in the United States and China have long been noted [...]

AM Beat Wire

Week’s Top Posts from AM Beat Wire

January 8th, 2010 in Entrepreneurship

Every day users submit links and vote on dozens of business/entrepreneurship related stories from around the web and the most popular stories are displayed on the front page. Every week, we highlight a few of the most popular links from the Wire here.