What positives does Gen-Y (Millennials) bring to your startup (or any business), and what management strategies will work most effectively and productively with them?

via 6 Tips For Managing Generation Y Employees.

“Tell me about yourself” in a job interview really means “give me an overview of who you are, professionally speaking.” There’s a reason this is asked at the very beginning of an interview — it says “give me the broad background before we dive in to specifics.”

via Ask a Manager: how do you answer “tell me about yourself” in a job interview?.

Apple said today that starting next month it will be funneling all of its mobile advertising efforts into iAd—a mobile ad network that works exclusively for the iPhone and iPod. As part of the decision, the Quattro ad network that it acquired earlier this year for a reported $275 million will be shut down.  The reason seems entirely to be a resource decision (?!-JL). Just recently, it was reported that iAd was having a hard time fulfilling all of its commitments and was experiencing delays. As a result, high-end luxury retailers, like Chanel, have decided to hold off participating. In contrast to iAd, before Apple bought Quattro, the ad network ran campaigns on all platforms.

via Apple To Shut Down Quattro’s Mobile Ad Network To Focus Entirely On iAd | paidContent.

“(Magazine) Advertising will struggle and, according to our forecast, will continue to decline,” Hal Greenberg, partner, VSS Structured Capital Funds, tells FOLIO:. “The ability of advertising to buy only one month in advance—the ability to pull or put it in within a month’s notice—makes it episodic. There’s a lot of demand on marketing dollars and ad dollars will struggle in that mix.”

via Magazine Growth Sluggish Through 2014 – M and A and Finance @ FolioMag.com.

“I don’t believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time,” says Google CEO, Eric Schmidt. He predicts, apparently seriously, that every young person one day will be entitled automatically to change his or her name on reaching adulthood in order to disown youthful hijinks stored on their friends’; social media sites.

via Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.: Google and the Search for the Future – WSJ.com.

“One of the most practical pieces of early career advice I got was “don’t bring me problems, bring me solutions.” The message was clear. I hired you because you’re smart. As your senior manager I’m happy to help you any time you need. But I have my own shit to deal with – believe me. You think you have problems? Imagine having 10 people reporting to you all bringing you problems as well as our client and my senior partners. I’m up to my eyeballs in problems. I don’t have the time or inclination to figure out your problems for you.”

via Bring Me Solutions, Not Problems I know you think you know this, but … | Both Sides of the Table.

“In today’s era we’re all asked for help, favors or introductions all of the time. Most of us want to help. But many well intentioned (contacts) are sloppy about how they ask so I’d like to give you some guidelines to help.”  (applies to most business intros)

via How to Ask for Help, Favors and Intros | Both Sides of the Table.

While he was still in his early 20s and just beginning to run his own print shop, Franklin laid out 13 “virtues” he felt would guide him as an entrepreneur.

via Benjamin Franklin’s 13 Secrets To Business Success.