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Hire a consultant; ignore the advice!

Berkonomics

Consultants are good in that you can sample their work with short projects, change to other consultants quickly, and stop using them when a project is completed. I want you to all imagine that it is tomorrow morning, looking back upon today’s reporting of these past months of work by your consultants. But most were just ignored.

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Hire a consultant; ignore the advice.

Berkonomics

Consultants are good in that you can sample their work with short projects, change to other consultants quickly, and stop using them when a project is completed. I want you to all imagine that it is tomorrow morning, looking back upon today’s reporting of these past months of work by your consultants. But most were just ignored.

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Consultants are only as good as the advice you take.

Berkonomics

Consultants are good in that you can sample their work with short projects, change to other consultants quickly, and stop using them when a project is completed. I have a partner in a consulting practice that specializes in the travel industry. The story is true and the results were as I predicted.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

Both Sides of the Table

But we had a great chance to talk about the recent moves that Twitter has made to “plug holes” and changing its “TOS” on advertising. I don’t do advertising on my blog, but I thought it was worth mentioning Ryan in particular because he has an alternate model for doing a startup. They sponsor TWiVC.

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Recruitment Goal In Obama Precision Med Study: 1M in 3 or 4 Years

Xconomy

In addition to people sharing blood and tissue samples—which will be housed in a biobank run by the Mayo Clinic —the NIH wants to open the study to people who share personal information and health information, perhaps transmitted via wearable devices.

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Tech Titans Peter Thiel, Matt Jacobson, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mich Mathews, Elon Musk Buy Homes in Los Angeles

SoCal Delicious

See a sample reprint in PDF format. If youre buying a luxury home or just like looking at them, check out this live chat from reporter Lauren Schuker Blum and WSJ.com real estate editor Matthew Strozier. Advertise Locally on WSJ.com. stock quotes reflect trades reported through Nasdaq only; comprehensive U.S. Footnotes*.