Jessica Mah is a startup founder who writes about entrepreneurship, running a company, and raising money.
Opinion is mixed: one commenter suggests contacting her for advice, while another dismisses her business advice as fluff from someone with little experience.
Fluff.
Can someone explain why we're taking business advice from a college kid who's working on an embryonic startup, and other than that has only worked in internships? The red flag here is that the post does not relate any relevant business experiences and has a linkbait title. Here are some others that exhibit identical traits:
* http://jessicamah.com/blog/?p=641
* http://jessicamah.com/blog/?p=560
* http://jessicamah.com/blog/?p=417
* http://jessicamah.com/blog/?p=406
My personal favorite: http://jessicamah.com/blog/?p=372
Hiring advice from someone who's never hired!
Maybe instead of spending time burning the midnight oil for my small business, I should post linkbait and get the red carpet treatment like this "entrepreneur" has.
Edit: It's also pretty lame to submit your own blog posts.
Agree. Having a seperate department can be helpful for large organizations, so that you can have one team supporting many products. However, if you prefer to hire generalists[1][2], then you can do away with it. Which is also a great away to mitigate Conway's Law[3]
[1] http://jessicamah.com/the-ceos-job-part-2
[2] http://blog.eladgil.com/2010/12/5-myths-to-building-awesome-mobile-team.html
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Law
I just wanted to get my facts and grammar right :-)
Facts: http://jessicamah.com/blog/?page_id=2
Grammar: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/authoress
Try contacting Jessica Mah (http://jessicamah.com). She has a similar story as yours and probably could give you better advice/guidance.
I wonder if it's just a coincidence that http://jessicamah.com/ is offline at the moment?