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| Aug 8, 2012 | Top 5 American cities for startups | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Mar 9, 2011 | The Fab.com story: 10 tips on when to change your game | Jason Goldberg is founder and CEO of Fab.com, a private-sales site focused on design. Prior to founding Fab, which began as a gay social network, Jason founded Socialmedian and Jobster. In a prior life, he spent six years working 100 hours ... |
| Sep 9, 2010 | Social job board, Jibe, officially launches | Jibe taps into your LinkedIn and Facebook network to help you recruit
We all want to make the best hires possible. As a matter of fact in the world of startups, having the right people can be a matter of meeting your goals and creating a pr... |
| Apr 23, 2010 | Fabulis Launches Social Network For Gay Men – Built On Top Of Facebook | Today sees the public beta launch of Fabulis, a fresh community and lifestyle (and explicitly not dating) website for homosexual men.
We’ve covered the company before – and not its product, unfortunately – when Citibank got itself in a PR f... |
| Apr 5, 2010 | Zapoint Acquires Social Job Search Site Jobster From Recruiting.com | Zapoint, a career and talent management platform, has acquired Jobster from Recruiting.com. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Both sites are planning to retain their separate identities, however; Jobster will offer new career management... |
| Feb 25, 2010 | Does Citibank Suffer From Homophobia Or Just A General Dislike For Startups? | I just finished reading a very unsettling blog post by serial entrepreneur Jason Goldberg, whose new startup fabulis has apparently had its bank account blocked by Citibank over posting “objectionable content” on its company blog, at least ... |
| Apr 20, 2008 | Social|median: Personalized News Filter – 1000 Invites | Over the past couple of months, Jason Goldberg, who previously founded job search engine Jobster and vacated the CEO role last December to “pursue other early stage ventures,” has quietly relaunched his personal blog social|median and trans... |
| Feb 18, 2008 | Variety launches a social network for the entertainment business | The entertainment trade magazine, Variety, today launched a new social network dubbed ‘the Biz‘. Created in conjunction with online job site Jobster, this network is said to be the first for the entertainment business.
Variety hopes to carv... |
| Feb 13, 2008 | The Resume, Rebooted: A Look at Web-Enabled Job Hunting | Traditional resumes are boring. They become stale and out-of-date, they can’t really showcase your work or achievements, and they end up just sitting in the bottom of someone’s inbox. A paper resume, while professional, doesn’t really let a... |
| Jan 9, 2008 | Jobfox expanding, raises $20M | Jobfox, the “personal branding” site for job seekers that allows them to market themselves to potential employers, says it is doubling its sales staff in response to strong demand.
Based in McLean, Virginia, the company also has sales offic... |
| Dec 13, 2007 | Roundup: Jobster CEO out, Al Gore dominates Bali, Lennon invests, Scoble out, more | Here’s the latest action:
1) Jobster CEO Jason Goldberg out
2) US delegation to Bali pisses off Al Gore
3) Opera sues Microsoft over Explorer
4) VC Heidi Roizen sheds weight while crafting songs
5) The guidelines for online video success
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| Oct 28, 2007 | FiveRuns raises $6.2M as Rails development spreads | Ruby on Rails, a programming language useful for making web applications, has gained a strong following in the development community because it is much easier to code and maintain than competitors like Java and PHP.
Initially adopted by sma... |
| Sep 26, 2007 | Trovix, JobFox offer new ways to find jobs | Job searching is still painful for most people.
The standard job search today means sifting through masses of listings to find jobs that fit, a process that is always exhausting, and often ineffective.
However, there’s a new set of companie... |
| Aug 9, 2007 | Is Google going after Monster.com? | Google has quietly started offering more links to its own job listings at the top its organic search results. Search for “San Francisco jobs,” and Google displays a little dashboard within the search results to specify your search further.
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| Jul 24, 2007 | The Web’s Top Takeover Targets | This past year has been a very eventful one in the M&A arena, with many of web 2.0’s biggest names being snapped up. A few stand-outs include the likes of YouTube, Photobucket, Feedburner, Last.fm, and StumbleUpon.
Yet, there still rema... |
| May 18, 2007 | Facebook growing, but more roadkill coming? | Facebook is growing quickly, adding between 100,000 and 150,000 new users per day, the company tells us, with the highest growth rates coming from abroad.
Particularly noteworthy is its traction in Canada, where it has more than 2 million a... |
| May 4, 2007 | Valley in merger fever: Google looks at SimplyHired? | Over coffee today, Silicon Valley lawyer Warren Lazarow was telling VentureBeat that merger and acquisition activity is “out of control….there’s more action right now than during the boom.”
A few minutes later, Lazarow, a leading lawyer at ... |
| Mar 30, 2007 | Look at Facebook | Recent traffic statistics at social networking site Facebook are impressive and we’re wondering if there’s a wider story here.
Facebook tells us the site is seeing about 1.5 billion page views a day, up from about 1 billion daily views last... |
| Feb 9, 2007 | The job problem — too much noise | The number of new job-focused companies is overwhelming.
The latest is Zubka.com, a new European company that pays people for referring suitable job candidates for listings on its site. Here’s your chance to win $3,600 for referring a Java ... |
| Feb 7, 2007 | Jobster to serve Facebook exclusively — targets Craigslist | Jobster, the Seattle job search engine, armed with $50 million in financing and aiming to be profitable this year, announces two big moves tomorrow (Thursday).
First, it jettisons its comfy neutrality with other sites. Until now, it has rem... |
| Feb 7, 2007 | Jobster Attacks the Monster | Monster.com is a fat target. It has a market cap of nearly $7 billion and generates over $1 billion per year in revenue. All that revenue is largely generated on paid job listings, starting off at $475 for a single listing. Hotjobs and a bu... |
| Jan 7, 2007 | Web 2.0 bubble bursting: Peerflix cuts workforce, carnage mounting elsewhere | This year has become the “show-me” year. Internet start-ups showing no traction are getting shut down, or trimmed — abandoned by once wide-eyed investors.
The Web 2.0 bubble is bursting, but VentureBeat agrees with others that this is more ... |
| Dec 4, 2006 | Simply Hired keeps expanding its job search | Simply Hired, the Mountain View job search engine, continues to expand its distribution network aggressively in this competitive industry.
The start-up will announce tomorrow that it will power the online job search of the nation’s fifth la... |
| Oct 25, 2006 | GotVoice Takes $3M in Series A Funding | Web based voice mail management system GotVoice announced today morning that it closed a first round of funding with $3 million from Ignition Partners, Second Avenue Partners and Cedar Grove Investments. One representative from each fund wi... |
| Jul 19, 2006 | Jobster, the Web 2.0 company on steroids, brings total bounty to $50M | Updated
Seattle’s Jobster, a site for job seekers and employers wanting to converse with them, has raised $18 million from investors. The private company is now valued above $100 million.
There’s a big lesson in this story, which we’ll get ... |
| Jul 19, 2006 | Jobster takes more money to spread social job search | Do job seekers and employers outside of Silicon Valley want user generated content, tagging and feeds in their employment services? The premise that they do will likely be put to the test on a global scale now that the fast growing job sear... |
| May 23, 2006 | Jobster To Acquire (two month old) Jobby | Seattle based Jobster will announce the acquisition of brand new startup Jobby on Wednesday morning. Terms are not being disclosed.
I profiled Jobby when it entered it’s beta in late March. Unlike Indeed and Simply Hired, which aggregate jo... |
| Aug 30, 2005 | Too lazy to find something? Ask Reply | Reply, which gives you a form to fill out online and then goes out and tries to find what you’re looking for, has scored $17 million in venture backing from Silicon Valley investor BA Venture Partners.
The moolah flows easily these days if ... |
| Aug 30, 2005 | Jobster snags $19.5 million from VCs | Silicon Valley’s Mayfield Fund led the round, and Trinity and Ignition Partners participated. Jobster‘s claim to fame has been to focus on helping employers recruit online. But it will soon be launching a job search engine for people lookin... |
