Elad Gil, head of Geo at Twitter, has a great new post on Tech Crunch, "The 5 Myths of Building A Great Mobile Team." Gil, who has experience building teams at Google and a handful of startups, hammers on the need to hire great engineers who can be flexible as their tasks change. That tagline for his first principle is, "Hire great athletes; mobile 'experts' will be useless in 6 months."
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Is your work as engaging, inspiring, and fulfilling as it could be? Do you (and the people you know) get enough meaning, freedom, energizing challenge, and fun from your job? Does your organization have a smart design for unleashing the best gifts of every individual inside it?
If you think you can breathe a sigh of relief after signing your company up for a Twitter account and setting up your Facebook fan page, think again. The folks at Tech Crunch offer a rich primer on the deeper interplay between the world of social media, organizations, and brands.
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Entrepreneur (Flickr) and angel investor (Etsy) Caterina Fake asks what it is about college dropouts that make such good tech entrepreneurs. Everyone knows that Bill Gates and Steve Jobs skipped "Pomp and Circustance," but Caterina updates the roster, adding Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter co-founders Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and Jack Dorsey. Apparently, the skills necessary to run a start-up aren't taught very well in the ivory tower.
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