Justin Laing

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Entries from November 2006

What can I do for you?

November 16th, 2006 · No Comments

A while back I read the book THE FROG AND PRINCE: Secrets of Positive Networking. It made a couple of good points but the most important was to approach people with the attitude: What can I do for you? With that attitude you’ll get the best response from people and you’ll open up a channel [...]

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Tags: business · life

Prediction

November 9th, 2006 · No Comments

Ebay will buy Prosper.com or Zopa.com (both are P2P auction lending/borrowing).

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Power to the employee, A Company Concept

November 8th, 2006 · No Comments

Here’s the company I want to work at:
Every employee gets a base salary. Say $50K/year, doesn’t really matter too much as long as it’s not too high.
Every employee gets a yearly budget. Say another $50K/year.
Employees organize them selves into projects that they create and pool their budgets to fund the projects.
Here’s how it would work: [...]

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Tags: business · programming