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Bacon-wrapped hot dogs is a Mark Zuckerberg favorite via Forbes #baconisforwinners

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Facebook's head chef Josef Desimone's interview with Forbes. Btw, are the Facebook Culinary Team has a fan page where they post the daily menus as status messages. That's how Chef Desimone and I became FB friends, cuz I stalk that page like no other. I'm not a crazy; it's for the food. I swear. (Note: nutjob != crazy. ha)

Friend them here. HERE.

Mark Zuckerberg, Mayor Booker and Governor Christie on Oprah

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"It was the difference between my son going to college or jail." - Governor Chris Christie on speaking with a woman whose number -son's number- was chosen in the charter school lottery.

Mark Zuckerberg's $100million donation is a personal one, and a challenge grant. 

I have no words for what is happening and what will happen. These three men will change so many lives and hopefully, the start of a much needed reform in education.Glad to see so many high profile people ban together for the future of this country. THIS is why Honorable Mayor Cory Booker is going to be President of the United States someday.

If this topic does not interest you, at least watch this clip as Zuck allowed cameras into his home and the Facebook offices.

In case you're wondering why this interests me, I've jotted down thoughts: Our country is in deep sh*t. Why Mayor Cory Booker is my hero and my dislike for New Jersey. 

If you aren’t getting rejected on a daily basis, your goals aren’t ambitious enough #fb

If you aren’t getting rejected on a daily basis, your goals aren’t ambitious enough

September 12th, 2010 | careers, startups

My most useful career experience was about eight years ago when I was trying to break into the world of VC-backed startups. I applied to hundreds of jobs:  low-level VC roles, startups jobs, even to big tech companies.  I got rejected from every single one.  Big companies rejected me outright or gave me a courtesy interview before rejecting me. VCs told me they wanted someone with VC experience.  Startups at the time were laying people off.  The economy was bad (particularly where I was looking – consumer internet) and I had a strange resume (computer programmer, small bootstrapped startups, undergrad and masters studying Philosophy/mathematical logic).

The reason this period was so useful was that it helped me develop a really thick skin.  I came to realize that employers weren’t really rejecting me as a person or on my potential – they were rejecting a resume.  As it became depersonalized, I became bolder in my tactics. I eventually landed a job at Bessemer (thanks to their willingness to take chances and look beyond resumes), which led to getting my first VC-backed startup funded, and things got better from there.

One of the great things about looking for a job is that your “payoff” is almost always a max function (the best of all attempts), not an average. This is also generally true for raising VC financing, doing bizdev partnerships, hiring programmers, finding good advisors/mentors, even blogging and marketing. I probably got rejected by someone once a day last week alone. In one case a friend who tried to help called me to console me. He seemed surprised when I told him: “no worries – this is a daily occurrence – we’ll just keep trying.”  If you aren’t getting rejected on a daily basis, your goals aren’t ambitious enough.

via cdixon.org

A-fucking-men; the worst anyone can say is no.

"Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do." - via TBWA/Chiat Day circa 1997 for Apple