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A Few Tips For Developers On How To Get Hired By A Startup Not everyone is cut out to work for a startup. It involves a lot of hustling, a lot of nail-biting, pizza-eating, sleeping at your desk, tears, failure, confusion, and on and on. And wearing your startup’s t-shirt. All the time. That being said, it can also be extremely rewarding and, with all the cash flying around Silicon Valley (and beyond), aspiring entrepreneurs are flocking to startups. So, say you’re one of those people who is champing at the bit to go work for a startup, what do you do next? Today, we’re offering a small slice of holiday cheer thanks to Monetate, the platform that provides marketers with testing and targeting services for their websites (and recently raised $15 million from OpenView Venture Partners, Floodgate, and First Round Capital), as the startup has put together an infographic that offers a few tips for programmers who are looking to toss their talents into the startup ring. Without further ado, check out Monetate’s infographic below.

Mobile Apps Overtake Web in Time Spent Mon, 06/20/2011 - 14:40 by Greg Sterling It wasn't supposed to be this way. Mobile apps, insiders argued, are a stopgap on the way to the true "mobile Web." Apparently not so. Mobile apps are not only here to stay, they've reportedly overtaken the PC and mobile Web in terms of time spent. Our analysis shows that, for the first time ever, daily time spent in mobile apps surpasses desktop and mobile web consumption. In February of this year, similar data was released by GSMA and analytics firm Zokem, which found that mobile apps are responsible for 667 minutes of use per user each month vs. messaging (671 minutes), voice (531 minutes) and web browsing (422 minutes). Flurry's report showed, amazingly, that mobile apps account for more time spent per day (81 minutes) than the PC and mobile Web combined. I couldn't believe that mobile apps were taking more time than the "mobile Web" and PC Web combined. Flurry breaks down app usage by category, in terms of overall time spent:

7 Things Very Few People Do That Can Land You a Job - Jobacle.com BLOG - Career Advice Blog Want to be in the 1% of all job seekers?! Use these tips to get a leg up on the job search competition. Make a Website Google some of your Facebook friends and see what you can find. In nearly all cases you’ll find their Facebook page, a few unrelated webpages, and not much else. Creating a website, in which you share your expertise, will give you an advantage over your competition because employers will inevitably search your name on Google. If you happen to share the same name with many other people, creating a website, with a few sites linking back to it, will clear up any ambiguity when an employer searches for you online. Write You say in your resume that you have experience in so and so. Give Value to Your Social and Professional Network Rather than talking to people with the underlying purpose of getting a job lead, talk with the purpose of making a friend. Too many people, who are looking to expand their professional contacts, build up a large database of people in their “network”.

How to Sort Googlers According to Myers Briggs If you are a fan of Myers-Briggs, the psychological testing that is commonly used by many employers, then you'll like this infographic that looks at the entire Googleplex and segments them into the 16 different categories. I was heartened to see that my type, ISTJ, is in the majority. Not surprising. The graphic comes via the folks at Resunate.com. They offer both free and several paid plans so you can score your resume with particular job descriptions to see if there is a match. The paid plans (which start at $15 a month) also offer a Myers-Briggs assessment. They analyze the difference bits of descriptions you have in your resume, and offer a variety of scores and suggestions on how to improve it.

Why I Hire People Who Fail by Jeff Stibel | 1:32 PM December 9, 2011 A few weeks ago, I wrote about avoiding social media failures. I briefly mentioned our company’s “Failure Wall” and was surprised by the number of comments and questions I received about it. What’s the purpose? The failure wall was part of our efforts to create a company culture where employees can take risks without fear of reprisal. “Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill“I have not failed, I’ve just found ten thousand ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison“Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.” – Sophia Loren One random Thursday night, I returned to our corporate headquarters afterhours with a bottle of wine and a box of acrylic paints. After we finished painting around 1:00AM, we fastened a dozen Sharpies to the wall alongside these simple instructions: (1) describe a time when you failed, (2) state what you learned, and (3) sign your name.

Business Networking While Traveling For Work Or Pleasure - Career Advice HQ Networking is not just presenting your business name for people to find out about you, but it’s also getting to know the people who will spread the word about you and your products or services and then will support you in your activities. Networking means getting to know many people in your life, as many as you can, and showcasing your business to those people, so that they then carry forward your name, your service or business, and share their knowledge about you with others. It may be that your business needs you to travel quite often or you may travel to arrange for supplies of raw material, visit relatives or just for the fun of it. In any case, rather, in all the cases make a point to strike up a conversation with the person sitting beside you, those who are around you on the airplane, even those who wait in the lounge at the airport. Make it your objective to meet with and greet at the minimum, one new person every day. How will you go about this task? Say, hello, how are you?

5 Things You Should Look For in a Community Manager In honor of Community Manager Day, I thought it would fun and worthwhile to share some tips with employers looking for the perfect community manager for their business. The community manager role is more relevant now than ever, and the numbers show it. In a joint research report released by Booz and Co. and Buddy Media, titled Campaigns to Capabilities, brand marketers said that hiring full-time employees is the number one investment they are making in social media. Furthermore, 63% of all social media teams have dedicated community managers, and 59% of social media teams plan to hire full-time community managers in the near future. So, if you are one of the many companies looking for a community manager, what are the qualities any candidate absolutely must have? Here are the top five things to look for in a community manager: Guest author Michael Jaindl is chief client officer for Buddy Media. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Photo by jynmeyer

Brad's Thoughts on the Social Graph Translations: [ Беларускі ] I've been thinking a lot about the social graph for awhile now: aggregating the graph, decentralization, social network portability, etc. If you've seen me at any conference recently, I probably talked your ear off about it. First off, before I explain what I've prototyped so far, and what I want to build (or see built) next, let me declare the problem statement, as I see it, and the underlying assumptions I've been making: Problem Statement: ¶ There are an increasing number of new "social applications" as well as traditional application which either require the "social graph" or that could provide better value to users by utilizing information in the social graph. Currently if you're a new site that needs the social graph (e.g. dopplr.com ) to provide one fun & useful feature (e.g. where are your friends traveling and when?) Facebook's answer seems to be that the world should just all be Facebook apps. Goals: ¶ Non-Goals: ¶ Assumptions: ¶ Development Status: ¶