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你是不是創業的料?

我想如果你錯過了變成 Bill Gates, Donald Trump 或 Sam Walton 的大好機會, 至少你可以從小培養你的子女下列特質或創造出以下環境, 讓他們 have a shot at it.

There are many factors, including genetics, that can help an entrepreneur

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By JIM HOPKINS, USA Today
Posted Monday, August 21, 2006

What attributes suggest someone's a good candidate to start their own business?
A college degree doesn't hurt, though dropping out didn't stop Bill Gates from launching the world's biggest software maker. Being rich would solve the problem of startup financing, yet Sam Walton got his start in business on not much more than a wing and a prayer.

There are no definitive answers, but the entrepreneurs, private investors and academics suggested these experiences, traits and skills:

Childhood experience 兒時經驗
You didn't rely on allowances and other handouts from your parents for spending money when you were young. You set up a weekend lawn-mowing business and hired friends to work for you. Or you franchised your lawn-mowing service idea to other kids in the neighborhood. "It's very common for adult entrepreneurs to be those who started lemonade stands or went house-to-house trying to make money when they were children," says Leann Mischel, a management professor and entrepreneur at Susquehanna University's Sigmund Weis School of Business. ...繼續閱讀

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真的是受夠了, 這個人(Dominic Connor)說出了一些華爾街科技人的心聲.

Why your IT is crap

Posted At : July 25, 2006 5:41 PM | Posted By : Dominic Connor
Related Categories: General

A common thread on the forums is rage about why IT seems to follow it's own agenda, and is so awful at delivering things. Now that many quants are IT literate, I get conversations like one I had at ICBI Paris where over dinner a very senior quant raged about how his IT department were not only crap, but they lied to him, and the techies seemed too frightened to disagree with their management. It's his fault. It may be yours as well.
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Communication Skill 溝通能力

Express yourself. 妳要有完整表達自己想法的能力. 事情不是只有成功或失敗, there are many inbetween,
Be able to read the dynamics. 知道週遭環境錯綜複雜的人際關係, 才會做出最適化的判斷
Keep everyone in the loop. 充分告知每個相關人員project的進度及遇到的任何困難. 責任變成由許多人共同承擔 ...繼續閱讀

"華爾街搞電腦/玩數學/作交易"是啥東東

許多人都有朋友"在華爾街搞電腦/玩數學/作交易", 有更多人對"華爾街"(泛指金融業)的工作性質感到好奇. 就連許多在華爾街工作很久的人也不清楚每天跟他一起吃中飯的人在作什麼. 我嚐試著將我所知道的整理出來. 以後如有時間會更深入的針對每一項詳加闡述

Here are the jobs in broader financial quant/engineering/technology field
財物工程及科技類的工作: ...繼續閱讀