In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
Coco Chanel
4 days ago
Many X’ers tend to be very wary of putting all their eggs in one corporate basket. They don’t like to be pigeon-holed or pushed out on a limb of specialization — with the inherent danger of a whimsical corporation sawing that limb off behind them during the next restructuring. One of their highest priorities is keeping their options open and their skills diverse — to be as self-reliant as possible.
(Source: blogs.hbr.org)
Video: We care more about making people smile than we do about making money. If we make people smile we’ll make lots of money over time.
In a small organization, there’s nothing more important than culture. People tend to get fired up about their jobs when there’s a dialogue that’s trustworthy, friendly and doesn’t require a intermediator or moderator.
Aaron Rudenstine, CityMaps
Watch below an excerpt from our keynote interview with Fab CEO Jason Goldberg at Startup 2012, where he discusses the company’s budget balancing strategies, mobile planning and European expansion.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Peter Medawar, Biologist
How to Tell if Your Tech Salary is Fair
Most people have no idea what the market rate or prevailing wage is for their profession and career level, much less where they fall on the pay scale.
I’m tired of fluffy unvetted career advice, so I’ve sourced and linked to ten ways you can determine what other people with your job are paid.
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(Source: morganmissen)
The secret of my success is that we have gone to exceptional lengths to hire the best people in the world.
Steve Jobs
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
André Gide, French author
Why Facebook Dropped $1 Billion for Instagram
By now you know Facebook just spent $1 billion to buy Instagram, the social photosharing app on the iPhone and recently added to Android.
If not, just Google it.
The pundits are buzzing about the news and speculating on the various ways it helps Facebook, a soon-to-be public company. But as far as I’m concerned, there’s only one reason Facebook wrote such a big check for what’s tantamount to a fancier Flickr …
They did it for the kids.
Facebook has an age requirement for membership set at 13 years old. While they don’t really verify age, it serves as an alert for parents and remains a solid filter for keeping out the youngest among us. Instragram, by contrast, has no such requirement. If you have an iPhone (or the popular-with-kids iPod Touch) or Android phone, you can share pics, no matter your age.
As a result, Instragram is huge with tweens and teens. As one mother points out in Business Insider, “… these kids are crazy about Instagram, it is a dominant form of communication for them. And, these kids (affluent, Chicago suburbanites) don’t have Facebook accounts yet and won’t for 4 or 5 years - if I were Facebook this would concern me. A whole bunch of kids running around who may decide they don’t need Facebook.”
Facebook was once the upstart - which wasn’t that long ago - and has a vested interested in stamping out “the next Facebook.” That’s what this acquisition did.
Look, I don’t doubt Instagram will bring some great tech and brainpower to Facebook, but that isn’t worth a billion bucks. This was much more about the threat than the opportunity.
If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
Ben Franklin
