3 Business Ideas: Experiment Often, Carefully, and Singly

Posted on Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

What have you learned in the past year?  Jill Foster of WomenGrowBusiness.com asked me this question and posted my response here: 3 Business Ideas: Experiment Often, Carefully, and Singly.  You can read it there or [...]

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Outsourcing Your Life in 8 Easy Steps

Posted on Monday, July 13th, 2009

Since discovering the wonder of outsourcing nine months ago, in October 2008, I’ve outsourced approximately 300 hours. That’s 300 hours that I got to spend reading or playing (or working…) while various assistants re-formatted [...]

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Think Less, Experiment More: 5 Lessons on Entrepreneurship

Posted on Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

A guest blog post I wrote for Women Grow Business:

Working for Microsoft, Google and Apple, I not only became a better engineer – I became a better entrepreneur. Their successes and failures, encapsulated in these [...]

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In Defense of Outsourcing

Posted on Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve started outsourcing. A lot. Most of the outsourcing goes to an (awesome) assistant in the Philippines, who does everything from online research to document editing. She’s great, [...]

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TechCrunch: "Why Google Employees Quit"

Posted on Monday, February 2nd, 2009

Last week, TechCrunch re-posted snippets from an email list for former googlers. This article was set up to make an obvious conclusion: Google is not the fairy tale land of employment.
Wait, wait, you mean [...]

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Top 10 Best Microsoft Interview Questions

Posted on Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

500 Microsoft Interview Questions on CareerCup
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As the founder of CareerCup, the web’s largest source for technical interview questions, I have over 500 Microsoft Interview Questions at my disposal, with more added every day. Everyday [...]

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Teaching & 20% Time

Posted on Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

When I joined Google last year, I was simultaneously thrilled to be building innovative applications and bummed to be leaving behind my college years. No, I’m not talking about dorm life and late night [...]

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