It is undeniable that a great hire will immensely help a company.

His take: it may well worth to work with a potential good candidate upto 4-6 hours to know more about hiring.

ITs expensive? Well, what’s the cost of a wrong hire? It can be a lot of money, and also it will waste you a couple of weeks, if not months.

Tips and Resources to Hire the Best | Small Business Trends

the reward from a great new hire at a small company can be…the entire company, again. A doubling of revenues or customers or cutting costs in half is the impact a good hire can bring quickly to a small company.

The Firefox phenomena is a classic study that is making waves about how a good product can be marketed without much adveritising budget, and only on its ability to generate hype and word of mouth.

The Hype Worked: Firefox 3 Downloaded 8.3 Million Times In First 24 Hours

Firefox 3 browser was downloaded 8.3 million times (that’s the unofficial tally as of 11:16 AM PT today). Mozilla beat its goal of 5 million downloads by 3 million and set a new world record!

8.3 million downloads.

United States about 2.5 million, Germany 662 thousand, Japan 403 thousand, France 290 thousand, UK 295 thousand.

John’s Blog » Blog Archive » Firefox 3’s First 24 Hours

# 83 terabytes served in total
# (that works out to nearly 8 1/2 full copies of the US Library of Congress’ print collection or a million copies of the new Coldplay album)
# At the peak, we were serving 17,000 downloads a minute (283 per second!), and saw sustained download rates in excess of 4,000/minute
# Our peak mirror throughput during the period was 20 gigabits/sec (a huge thanks goes to everyone who helped to create our unbelievably great mirror network)

According to Verisign, there are over 76.5 million domains with .com extension, with over 12.1 million with .de extension.

However, domain names with .cn exension grew more than threefold the last 12 months, and is now third largest with 11.8 million, overtaking .net which had 11.6 million as of May 2008.

Reports also indicate that internet users in China is now over 220 million, which might well already overtake the US online population as the largest in the world.

Internet domain name for China surpasses “.net” - Yahoo! News

I was just in the bathroom, and chanced upon an article which told about the story of three women who were widowed before 40. Then you start to gain a perspective of what kind of suffering your family undergoes just because you are not there.

Suddenly, or at least that instant, living longer started to become more important rather than the immediate business concern that I have. Working ourselves to stress and early death suddenly become stupid goals….

After all, seeing your wife happy and your kids grow - isn’t that what it is about?

oh,,,

that means if the US stock market is 6 months ahead, it may only start uptick near end of the year…

Economy not expected to rebound until summer 2009, CFOs say - Jun. 18, 2008

Economic woes are expected to continue until at least mid-2009, and things may get worse before they get better, according to a quarterly survey of chief financial officers.

It is dilemma for US now that it is hit with inflation and slow growth.

Last year, China enjoyed over 250 billion dollars trade surplus with US.

Without China goods, the cost of products to American consumer also increases. After all, it was China who kept inflation at bay for US as well as most of the world.

China yuan hits new high against US dollar - Yahoo! News

The yuan has gained about 20 percent against the U.S. dollar since Beijing revamped its foreign exchange trading system in July 2005, revaluing the currency by 2.1 percent to 8.11 yuan to one dollar.

On Wednesday, the yuan began trading at a 6.8823 to the dollar, continuing a steady advance against the dollar that has taken it to record highs in recent weeks.

Who can argue that business plans change?

For sure, no business plans should be written in stone , and there should always be regular reviews, and corrections as you go along.

But naming it Plan as You Go might mislead people to thinking that there is no overall initial plan in the first place….

Business Plans: “Plan as You Go” vs “Traditional”

Your plan document needs to be flexible enough to incorporate changes regularly. Don’t think of it as some huge printed document (a Business Plan with a capital “B” and a capital “P”) that sits on the shelf for a year. Rather it should be something that evolves and is modified regularly as your business evolves.

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