Recent content by Candiarie_foh

And like you said, it"s easy to get done over the phone in less than half an hour. It"s a pretty low barrier.

If he"s consistently having to fire people for lying about their experience...yeah.

Would reference checks have caught the lack of experience Lyrical? How did you find most of your new hires?

Every company I"ve received offers from has put it in writing. Anywhere from gigantic corporations to local startups. It"s at least a page saying what you"ll be making and maybe what your title will be. It would be strange if there wasn"t one.

To go along with what Elurin said, if the job and compensation at the new job are something you want but you"d be willing to stay at your current place if the compensation was better, get the offer from the new company. Tell your current company you want to stay there but can"t do it without a...

Have you been studying at all Elurin? I looked into taking it now so I don"t have to worry about it if I decide to go to bschool in the next five years. The practice GMAT application they have though I got a 650 without studying at all. Any school I would want to go to I would need low 700s so...

Haven"t read Millionaire Next Door, but active/passive investing is something that"s been beaten to death, reincarnated, and then beaten to death again here.

I think this might be pretty culturally dependent. My current stepdad who initially was married to a Japanese woman in Japan brought up how it"s a cultural expectation that the man makes the money and the (stay at home) woman sets the budget. I have no first hand experience though. What you...

My buddy was just looking at buying a 4plex. From what I remember the bank estimates 50% vacancy, although if you can afford it month to month with 0 tenants then it may not matter. How are you estimating utilities? That would require getting the numbers from the previous owner who may or may...

Agreed, but it depends on the timespan too. If you need that within the next year then it"s worth getting a quote now. If you"re waiting to both have kids and have them grow up to need separate rooms then you have a lot of wiggle room.

the fuck?

If there"s one thing I"ve gotten out of undergrad it"s that it"s never a bad idea to do a really basic industry competitive analysis (usually porter"s 5 forces) before anything else. From what you said Heylel, your customers currently have relatively low bargaining power because they can"t get...

Contact your state representative/whoever pays them. Most of them are somewhat sensitive to things that would make the lives of their small business owners harder (or at least, could give the appearance of doing so when you write your newspaper). As far as shit you can reference, try to find...

I think Lyrical touched on that a lot earlier in this thread when he was talking about aligning the employee"s interest with the company"s. It makes sense (to me, as a bschool student) but almost every company I"ve worked for has not implemented it in a very effective way.

Go for it. And it seems like a solid idea. I"ve been frustrated with my realtors site a lot, all kinds of retarded frames and unintuitive search options. That said, why are you considering taking on outside capital again? So you can pursue a marketing campaign? It seems like a better way at...