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Entrepreneurs, Hiring, and Investment in Human Capital
Recently, I have been generating some posts from the book, Personnel Economics In Practice. In all the posts the issues that were explored were from the company perspective. With the way this job...
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Quick and Dirty Unemployment Analysis-Stagnation
A better than expected number today on non farm payroll. It won’t change one vote in the election. Sifting through the data though, there are some interesting things if you give it perspective. First...
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Execution Is A Key To Success
Ideas are great. Ideas germinate into businesses. But ideas are just ideas until a person takes it and actually makes something. No ideais worth anything until it gets a customer. Only then is it...
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Serious About Job Growth? The Council That Doesn’t Meet
President Obama established a job council to deal with unemployment. He did it a year ago. They haven’t held a meeting yet. If you say your number on priority is “jobs”, wouldn’t you want your council...
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Breakfast Links
Ronald Coase (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Raising the minimum wage will increase unemployment. The two things monetary policy can’t do are peg a real interest rate or the unemployment rate for more than a...
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The Future of Work: The Future Won’t Stop
How do you figure out what to invest in today that will be a big company tomorrow? It’s a question a lot of people ask. You can’t take out a crystal ball and have some soothsayer tell you what’s going...
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Today’s Unemployment Number
US Unemployment Rate data by YCharts The number that will come out today is just a tick on a chart. It’s not a trend, it’s not the sign of anything big. The above Ychart is the labor force...
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Desktime Pitches at Technori Pitch In Chicago
Thought the Desktimeapp guys did a nice job at Technori pitch. Technori is a different sort of venue to pitch in. Sam and Pat head up a great team. Hope you use them when you are looking for a spot...
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The Holiday Wind Down-How To Find a Job or Keep Momentum
How do you keep momentum up during the holidays? Certainly, the trading community slows down. Although, I had some pretty good years from Thanksgiving to New Years. If you are looking for a job, or...
View ArticleMegalytics is Hiring!
West Loop Ventures portfolio company Megalytics is hiring. They have a great team, and it’s a great place to work. Donna is on the bleeding edge of something big in commercial real estate. If you are...
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