There was an interesting discussion with one of the original investors of Indeed, Brad Burnham from Union Square Ventures had on a recent episode of This Week in Startups. In it, he attributed their success partly due to the founds Rony Kahan and Paul Forster. He used the word “ruthless” while describing Forster’s business savvy….
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Another Job Board Software Platform Has Launched
A few weeks ago I wrote about JobBoardFire and now comes news of another platform for the job board world. Job Board Kit is based out of the UK and is now open for business. They are also my latest sidebar advertiser. All of a sudden the job board software market is heating up. I attribute…
Q&A with MarketGrabber
MarketGrabber is a longtime provider of job board software. I did a Q&A with Laura Barry, VP of Sales & Marketing over email recently. How long has MG been around? Who is company founder? Our company AlphaPlex, Inc. has been in business since 1997 and is located in Colorado Springs, CO. We began as a…
70MillionJobs Seeks CTO
70 Million Jobs is the first national, for-profit marketplace for 70 million Americans (1 in 3 adults) with criminal records. We’ve created a 2-sided marketplace which looks a lot like a job board (from off-the-shelf technology), and are seeing great growth in both jobs facilitated and revenue. In the past we’ve worked with a dev…
Job Board News from tilr, RecruitMilitary and Community Brands
Goodbye Resume, tilr Makes Recruiting Automatic For companies that need positions filled immediately, scouring job boards and conducting interviews are setbacks they can’t afford. tilr in Cincinnati hopes to vanquish the void and give companies a competitive edge by creating a job marketplace powered by something more straightforward: artificial intelligence. tilr’s matchmaking process is designed to eliminate the…
Green Jobs Get a Reboot
The new owner of Greenjobs.com, a premium job board domain name has relaunched the business as a new job board on the SmartJobBoard platform. I helped launch the site recently via my concierge service. Adam Yamada-Hanff, who owns the site, tells me that in addition to typical green jobs like solar, he will be adding wind…
Find Your Niche in These Fastest Growing Jobs
If you are looking to enter the job board business here is a good list of what jobs will be hot. A job site needs a strong job market to succeed so stats like these are good to have as you discover which niche you want to target. To me, I think #1 and #5 and #15 would…
New Free job board platform has launched
We have a new entrant in the job board software market. It’s called Job Board Fire. It is completely free to use and makes money through a 10% rev share component. Below is a quick screencast from my Youtube channel. If they keep iterating they have a chance to succeed, but may need to charge…
Technical.ly is a Job Match Making Site for the Mid-Atlantic Region
Just spotted: Technical.ly Match beta, a double opt-in direct placement service that “fits the needs of today’s workforce and promises to deliver only quality results to both sides of the process.” It is targeted for Mid-Atlantic states like Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland. In a stealth pilot, the site claims more than 2,000 Technical.ly readers from seven states…
Another Freelance Job Market Set to Enter U.S.
WorkGenius, an AI-based freelancing platform that enables enterprise clients to staff projects around the globe, has just extended its series A funding to a total of $10M. The company is set to enter the U.S. freelance market joining the ranks of Upwork which just went public. The additional funding will be used to grow the…