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If there is any mystery in what kind of startup ideas are fundable, the good news is there are quite a few ideas that clearly are. Why don’t people jump on them right away? As you will see these ideas are just as useful as they are challenging. But not impossible.

Graham calls it “doing things that don’t scale” because part of the definition of a startup is having a scalable technology. So what has changed?

Software engineers get paid anywhere from $60,000 to $120,000. Why so much? Or why so little? Here is why:

IT seems to be a lucrative career option offering of high-paying jobs. However, it's an ever-changing job market. One day a skill is hot and the next it's not. Job site Dice.com recently published its 2015 Salary Survey, which named the highest-paying tech skills. Of course, skills alone won't always lead to a high salary. Work experience counts, too. So, here are 30 high-paying tech skills as per the survey. 1. No. 1: PaaS ($130,081) PaaS or "Platform as a Service" is a type of cloud computing technology. It hosts everything that a developer needs to write an app. These apps once written, would live on PaaS cloud. PaaS is a huge trend in app development right now, with every big tech vendor, every hosting company, and every maker of app development tools looking for game in the PaaS market.

 A resume is a medium for advertising yourself, its the first most means which you use to present yourself and try to claim that you are the best choice to your prospects employer. Through your resume you have to showcase your major assets like: Qualifications Experience Achievements Capabilities, and Qualities

Hiring activity in India grew by 9% in March led mainly by banking and IT sectors, with the job market outlook looking bullish, says a report. The Naukri Job Speak Index stood at 1,609 for last month, registering 9% increase in hiring activity over March 2014. "We can expect the index to move further north as the mood is positive and there is sign of cautious optimism across sectors. In my view the year 2015-16 will bring cheer to job seekers across cities and industries," said Naukri.com executive vice president and chief sales officer V Suresh. The sectors which recorded the maximum year-on-year growth were Banking and Financial Services (BFSI) and accounting and finance. Sectors like accounting and finance, IT, advertising/PR/ MR and oil and gas registered a Y-o-Y growth of 43%, 27% and 12% respectively in the March 2015.

This is a video about introverts based on the book "Quiet" by Susan Cain. Quiet shows how dramatically we undervalue introverts, and how much we lose in doing so. http://www.thepowerofintroverts.com

Body language affects how others see us, but it may also change how we see ourselves. Social psychologist Amy Cuddy shows how "power posing" -- standing in a posture of confidence, even when we don't feel confident -- can affect testosterone and cortisol levels in the brain, and might even have an impact on our chances for success.

Project managers are essential players in the world of business. Companies depend on these employees to organize, motivate, facilitate, communicate, and ensure that meaningful progress is made on a daily basis. Without these individuals directing the flow of production each and every day, business would no doubt come to a standstill. However, the business that aims to not just meet, but exceed, client expectations depends on the talents of truly great project managers, and these individuals are often less common than we might like to believe. But just what defines such an individual? Optimism A project manager that is a strong asset to his or her company is one that exudes optimism. Why? Optimism is the driving force behind commanding authority in a way that naturally elicits a positive response from other workers. When assignments and goals are presented in a way that emphasizes their achievability and benefit to the client, a project manager’s team is more likely to put fort...

Most of Facebook's 8,000 employees are millennials — and the average age is 28, compared to 30 at Google and 31 at Apple, the Wall Street Journal reports. CEO Mark Zuckerberg is 30. The company has embraced stereotypes about millennials (like, that they're entitled and hate negative feedback) in its management strategy. For example, the company gives employees lots of freedom and encourages them to have a strong sense of ownership over their work.  Facebook executives tell managers to focus 80% on employees' strengths when they're conducting performance reviews, and to move people to different roles based on what they're good at, not where the company actually needs more people. Plus, even low-level employees are encouraged to question and criticize their managers. "You get zero credit for your title," Don Faul, a former Facebook exec, told The Wall Street Journal's Reed Albergotti. "It's all about the quality of the work, the power of your ...

Thanks to its famously easy-going culture and fabulous perks, Facebook is one of the most in-demand places to work -- and getting a job there is no easy feat. To get a better sense of what it takes to land a highly coveted position with the social media giant, we recently spoke to one employee who walked us through his interview process and shared what it's really like to work for the company. Nicolas Spiegelberg earned a Masters in Computer Engineering from the University of Alabama in Huntsville in 2006. After graduating with a 4.0 GPA, he worked for a telecommunications company in Alabama for a few years -- but had a serious interest in the "greatly unrealized potential of online social networking." Spiegelberg, 32, tells us he was "hooked on the idea of working for Facebook from the start."

MUMBAI: They may be unable to boast of crore-plus packages like their more established brethren, but newer IITs have got off on a strong note this placement season. Those in this group, like IIT Ropar, IIT Gandhinagar, IIT Bhubaneswar and IIT Mandi, confirm that hiring season will surpass previous years. In the first week of placements, 60% of the 120-strong batch at IIT Mandi had already been placed across 16 companies. IIT Mandi was started in 2009. And at IIT Gandhinagar, which was established in 2008, 15 firms picked up 50% of their undergraduates. Tata Motors, Mahindra &Mahindra, Flipkart, Cognizant and Microsoft are some of the companies that have hired from the new IITs this year.

BENGALURU: Chennai-based software maker Zoho is focused on making products more intuitive and appealing to end users amid a growing trend of no longer treating business software as a utilitarian product but one that can work on personal devices that employees bring to the office. "There have been so many instances of people signing up independent of corporate policy," said Sridhar Vembu, chief executive of Zoho, which competes with some of the largest enterprise software makers such as Microsoft and Google. Over the past four years, the company has learned to consciously think about design so that its suite of enterprise software comes with a friendly, easy-to-use interface.

పత్తిపాడు: గుంటూరు జిల్లాకు చెందిన ఓ విద్యార్థి ప్రతిష్టాత్మక మైక్రోసాఫ్ట్ సంస్థలో భారీ వేతనంతో కొలువును దక్కించుకున్నాడు. ప్రత్తిపాడు మండలం గనికపూడికి చెందిన అంచా అయ్యేశ్వరరావు, ప్రమీల దంపతుల కుమారుడు వెంకట సిద్ధార్థ గౌహతిలోని ఐఐటీలో బీటెక్ కంప్యూటర్ సైన్స్ చివరి సంవత్సరం చదువుతున్నాడు. ఇటీవలే కళాశాలలో మైక్రోసాఫ్ట్ నిర్వహించిన క్యాంపస్ ఇంటర్వ్యూల్లో సిద్ధార్థ్ ఎంపికయ్యాడు.

MUMBAI/DELHI/CHENNAI/KOLKATA/GUWAHATI: A woman was among three students who bagged the highest package at IIT-Bombay on the first day of the placement season.     In fact, two women are among the five students Facebook has hired this year from the campus. This includes those hired during the pre-placement process. At IIT-Kharagpur too, a woman was among the three, who got top deals. Most of the students, who bagged premium packages, are into coding.

I srael-based software firm Ness Technologies is planning to increase its India staff strength by 1,000 in the next one year, adding to the 2,000 currently in the country, as it looks to tap the growing demand for software product engineering services. "We see product and platform engineering as a significant growth opportunity. We are growing very significantly in India. India is a significant part of our delivery strategy," said Paul Lombardo, CEO of Ness Software Engineering Services, a division of Ness Technologies. The company will hire 1,000 employees in India in the next year, said Satyajit Bandyopadhyay, president and managing director at Ness Technologies India.

 Technology has been accused of making many a job disappear, on the production line or in the accounting office. And it is not done yet. A company often resembles its communication and technology system. In the era of cloud computing that the tech industry is moving into, that seems to suggest that companies will have smaller departments, quickly analyzing data and endlessly experimenting. That means change is on the horizon at the many companies that will adopt cloud computing over the next few years. Middle managers: This is not good news for you.

Amazon goes to great lengths to manage its workplace culture. At its Seattle headquarters, every single job candidate is interviewed by at least five employees from different departments. Every interviewer is given veto power over the candidate, in order to make sure everyone coming to Amazon fits its distinct corporate culture. But what kind of person is Amazon looking for? In a story earlier this year for The New Yorker, George Packer explains that the company seeks out a certain type of introverted, detail-oriented person who can get things done, but is not necessarily a great communicator.

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Having owned one such luxury car in the past, here are some thoughts for you. Nobody has ever gotten rich just being an employee and earning a wage.Regardless of the nature of the job and the location, you will always be caught in the upper middle class trap (same is true of nations too). The only way to sustainably get rich is by having control over your life & learning to be an entrepreneur. Pick out the richest people from Forbes and figure out how many of them don't run a business.