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Research shows that women exaggerate the skills they need to succeed. For women entrepreneurs, that could be a problem.

Silicon Valley appears to be the world's greatest meritocracy. Unless you're a female entrepreneur trying to raise venture funding. In my last two articles, I discussed why, based on my research on immigrant entrepreneurs, I believed that Silicon Valley was the world’s greatest meritocracy.

When you dont need a full-time employee to do the task at hand, hire an e-lancer from one of these new companies. Call it the joblet recovery. With unemployment at 9 percent and 2012 looking bleak, many job seekers find themselves adrift in a modern version of the preindustrial piecework economy