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Brad Wilford won the starting quarterback job on the Harvard football team primarily because of his rocket arm. Saturday, however, he displayed all of his tools as a player, in guiding the Crimson to a 25-17 come-from-behind win against Holy Cross...
Kaushik soon landed a job at Oracle, one of the Valley's blue-chip firms. Two years later, he quit to take a job at a hot start-up called CrossWorlds Software. Had he stayed at Oracle, "I would have made a lot of money. Not multimillions, but not pocket change either." Kaushik left CrossWorlds after a year--the company has yet to have its IPO--to start his own dot.com with three friends. "I thought starting my own company would complete my contribution to the world and my profession," he says. But after three months of trying to raise...
...Valley is haunted by the phantom revenues they promised their VCs, Newmark is trying to find charities to fund. A 46-year-old ex-software engineer, he runs the online bulletin board Craigslist.org and if you're anyone in Silicon Valley, you use Craig's List. While headhunters and job fairs throw tons of resumes your way, a $45 posting on Craig's List gets you the real talent. And with 180 new listings each day, the site, which gives its profits to charity, has a lot of cash it needs...
ROLL IT OVER! Last year 57% of job-hoppers chose to cash out their 401(k)s rather than roll the balance over to a new account, according to a Hewitt Associates study. That's a mistake, even if the balance seems too insignificant to roll. Federal and state taxes, plus a 10% penalty for withdrawing funds before age 59 1/2, can eat up nearly half of a $10,000 distribution. But if a 30-year-old rolls that money over and cashes out at age 60, the account would total some $97,000 before taxes, and the worker would...
...sure what his objective is. "If you don't have a job, you have to confront who you are. If you're not dating, you can usually say, 'It's because I'm working all the time.' Now you can't say that." His business card gives his title as "emeritus...