According to my Google searches, the amount of time necessary to find a job in today’s economy is one year. And so, I began job hunting when I had 28 credits left unchecked on my degree audit from the University of Central Florida, which gave me a little more than one year to land the career of my dreams.

Reading isn't just for writers. Reading helps us learn more about our craft—whether it's marketing, management, engineering or teaching. It sparks new ideas and pushes us forward when we're in a slump. And best of all, it allows us to think in new ways, and escape the patterns and assumptions of our lives.

A rebuttal to an excerpt of Dan Lyons’ new book, Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble. Say hi to Dan Lyons. You have to read the excerpt for his forthcoming book, Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble, to get what I’m saying. So go ahead, read it (click here). I’ll wait.

Ever wonder how startups with no marketing budgets pop up overnight? Old people would tell you it’s through sales and marketing. Shane Snow would call it smartcutting, and Sean Ellis would say they growth hacked. All of the above are correct, but growth hacking has become the popular term; therefore, we’ll stick with growth hacking.

I’m not sure when I became glued to my inbox, but I’m certain it wasn’t until after I left college. In fact, I very vaguely even recall using email in college. For the most part, communication took place on Blackboard, and really, the only emails I ever received were spammy, promotional stuff from my university.

Everyday, I receive emails, LinkedIn smail (spam mail), texts and/or Facebook messages from people looking for resume help. I typically don’t respond to them – not because I don’t want to help but because they’re not listening to me when I tell them that any resume I create is NOT going to get them a job.

What’s more, survey respondents spent more time per week with email than any other digital activity – an hour more than popular digital diversions such as Facebook and texting. In other words, if you haven’t been focusing on improving your email marketing, you better prioritize it now, or your business may suffer.

Want to make enough money in eight or nine months to last you for the rest of the year doing whatever the heck you want? So do we. That’s why we reached out to the man who does it – Paul Jarvis. For various reasons, there are more and more designers and developers entering the freelance economy than ever before.

Let’s face it: it’s really easy to have penny-pincher syndrome in the startup world. With so many well-educated, jobless individuals, it’s easier than ever to underpay — or not pay someone at all — and call them an “intern.”. But sometimes, it’s helpful to step back and remember that you get what you pay for — or in this case, don’t pay for.

I hear some version of this statement daily, and my answer is always: “Yes, you can very much effectively manage interns remotely.”. Then I shoot off the following question: “Have you heard of [insert name of really handy tool]?”. So here are the 10 tools I recommend to effectively manage interns remotely.

Please raise your hand if you’ve ever felt personally confused about hiring an intern. When you initially think about it, you envision a super (cheap) intern swooping in, saving yourself from all of the work you have no time to do. The feeling of tranquility quickly dissipates though as your head of swirls with the logistics.

Entrepreneurs routinely take lessons from startup blogs that are not necessarily by startup founders but rather writers for big name magazines. It can get a bit redundant, and it can be difficult to find the golden needle in the haystack of junk on the Internet. If you’re founding a startup then this is most likely how your day plays out.

Can you imagine coining not just one, but multiple buzzwords for an industry you ideated, launched and made popular around the world, all from scratch? HubSpot co-founders Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah transformed a massive, tradition-locked industry that was trying to tell people what to think and what to buy into a proactive marketplace where the customer is indeed always right, not always ignored.

Side projects are not just 20-somethings coding away in their dorm rooms or the young father who makes his wife angry spending all day at work and every night on his computer. Seth Rosen’s side-project, the International Gem Society (IGS), fits neither stereotype. Rosen is the co-founder of CustomMade, an online marketplace backed by Google Ventures’ that connects customers with independent artisans producing custom-designed furniture, jewelry, home décor and other personalized items.

For Patrick Haney, that question is a little more complicated. “By day, I’m a designer and developer hybrid working on client projects through Hanerino, a two-person, design studio his wife began two years ago,” he says. “We take on a wide range of work including web design and development, user experience design for apps and mobile as well as many other design projects.”.

At 20, I was gaining valuable experience and building my portfolio, which was going well until my father said “No more unpaid internships.”. For a few days, I applied to hundreds of open marketing positions, many of which I totally did not qualify for (hey, worth a shot, right?). I waited and waited.