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- Gnomedex Day 1 Afternoon SpeakersAugust 21
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These are the afternoon speakers at Gnomedex Day 1.
Gnomedex Day 1 Afternoon Shoot
Gnomedex Day 1 Afternoon Shoot
- Gnomedex 2010 Day 1 Morning SpeakersAugust 21
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This is the morning shoot of Gnomedex 2010 – unfortunately this is the last Gnomedex forever or until Chris figures out that he would like to do this. This feels almost like the last huzzah – and in someways is fairly sad.
Gnomedex Day 1 Morning Shoot
Last Gnomedex ever – the morning shoot
- Turn about is not fair play on the broken hiring processAugust 17
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Turn about is not fair play on the broken hiring processWe have all heard about the problems with finding the right employee for the jobs you are trying to fill. Usually from my vantage point as a hiring manager my biggest problems have been about resumes that did not make sense for the position being filled. It is very hard to go from an AA working at a McJob to a required PhD working in research which is usually the kind of job I am trying to fill, and my average job candidate resume is the McJob. Usually that means they are just filling out the paper work and spamming the job systems with garbage resumes on some forlorn hope that they will get a job they are totally unprepared for.
The interesting flip side to this is that I recently posted my resume on one of the major job boards because that was the price of looking for jobs at their site. The resume I posted was my teachi
- Best meeting ever with a banker and it was still no saleAugust 6
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Sometimes you decide that you really do want to continue to grow your company beyond cash flow so you decide you want to go talk to a banker and see what all they would be interested in loaning money and providing deeper banking services than you have now. I did not want a traditional bank because I already have a traditional bank that does not quite do it for me.I was ushered into this nice conference room where I pulled out my P&L statements, growth rates, what I need to do to grow more, and otherwise, here is my business after 2 years and 10 months with a year over year growth rate of 200%. Traditional banking has always had a hard time with small business, because so many small businesses fail. This is no surprise that ba
- Data pooling or data streaming in social networkingJuly 30
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Over the last few months, my startup has really been taking off so we have been working on different ways to engage with our audiences. We have two distinct startups – one an ebook publishing firm, and one a comic book seller.
What has been interesting to see though is that as we turn on social components, we see a pooling behavior in the way that the data is presented rather than a streaming behavior depending on the system. Facebook seems to handle data streaming better, while Twitter and F
