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Making Money with Mobile
With all the activities going on in mobile, it would be easy to think it’s a piece of cake to take part in the get rich quick plan! See my previous post on this from web 2.0 but Analyst are predicting smartphone shipments to overtake pc shipments in 2012. The internet traffic that mobile is generating is taking off like nothing we’ve seen before. Needless to say the market is big, the opportunity is big (again from reporting I did at web 2.0), and the best news is, it is still the wild west out there. Making money is fun and it’s even more fun when you make loads of it. I couldn’t tell you that from personal experience, but I have been told it is the case!
Successful hiring
Official Google Blog: Our Googley advice to students: Major in learning -
here is a good short blurb on what Google thinks. The usual suspect - analytical reasoning(being able to see beyond the obvious), willingness to experiement(ie it's ok to be wrong, i will find another way), communication skills(can you explain what you've done), team player(it's too bad when you have to go to a really smart guy/gal and say: look you really got to work on your people skills because nobody wants to work with you.), passion and leadership(no no leadership is not a bunch of people doing what you asked them to, it's the ability to inspire others to follow) and one that I really want to single out Passion, in my mind the person I hire must have a spark if not it won't work.
For the calculus freak in you, and a post similar to this see Passion:
if G = gift out of the factory, how intelligent one is, the raw talent
if P = drive, desire to make things happen, take on challenges...
if t = time
Successful candidate = G + Pt
the first derivative is P, over time what really matter is Passion. So I know it's over simplified but my point is simple - without passion in what one does one will not excel or contribute to its fullest to the organization. The passion post I wrote explains how a company should think its interview process with that in mind. For the hockey fans out there check out Alexandre Daigle, what do you think - lots of talent of out of the factory, but no passion - top pick for the ottawa senators, but ended up being booted out for two dozens hockey sticks.