My eyes are killing me. Why the heck are you cramming so much unimportant information onto your single-sided single-page resume? You make it completely unreadable! Especially when someone (like a hiring manager) is trying to scan through hundreds of scanned pages. Also, a new tip. Your paper resume will be scanned. It will be OCR’d. [...]
I’ve been giving a lot of talks over the last few years, and I’m starting to get better at it. Rands does a great how to on creating a good presentation. Rands In Repose: Out Loud I would add one suggestion: go watch presentations from Lawrence Lessig, Al Gore and Scott McCloud. All were really [...]
$6 Billion for aQuantive – a company I’ve never heard of with $442M in revenue. Umm… ok. Seems high. $500M for Danger, a competitor for Windows Mobile written in Java. $56M in revenue last year and has never turned a profit. Uh, who is doing MS’ accounting? $44.6 Billion for Yahoo! This isn’t a crazy [...]
