The tough economic times across the U.S. and in Silicon Valley are being felt all round. Layoffs are rampant everywhere including high tech - from startups to established giants. Nearly 1.2 million jobs have been lost this year and more than 10 million Americans are now unemployed. Sun announced yesterday that it will be laying off 6K people, eBay, Intuit, and Yahoo have all had layoffs as well, and countless other companies including Web 2.0 companies have shed employees. Unfortunately, things took a terrible turn yesterday More»

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If you Google ‘recession proofing‘, you’ll find everything from recession proofing your job, life, diet, vacations, finances, wedding, retirement, etc. And, unlike other recession proof industries like healthcare, food, debt collection, tax filing, career services, energy, and tobacco, booze, porn, and gambling, high tech is not one of the recession proof industries. Most of us manage web sites, work on sites, and run businesses on sites. So, we are about to or are already walking a virtual tightrope. But before we all rush for the nearest exit, lets think about this for More»

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