Category: Random
I’m having more and more Atlas Shrugged moments these days. Today’s was courtesy of an add on LinkedIn.
My first response to the ad was “I’m not sure I want to see my concerns addresses by the White House.” The White House – after all, is a building.
It turns out that this is an event that is titled “The Effects of Health Care Reform on Small Business.”
At least the White House is spending money on social media.
If you are an independent contractor that is a Java stud, email me. I’m specifically looking for someone with familiarity with Vignette 7, Weblogic 9, Javascript, Ajax, and .NET web services.
Yesterday I posted that Trada is looking for a Test Engineer. Gnip is also looking for software developers – three in fact:
If you are Boulder-based and fit the qualifications, email Jenny-Lynne Elledge.
Trada, one of our portfolio companies in Boulder, is looking to hire. They’re looking for a tech-skilled individual who thinks they can do just about everything, because they might be asked to. Primary role is testing their online advertising app but there’s a huge opportunity to contribute much more. There’s dev work; cloud systems admin; operations tasks; end-user support; and customer facing account management tasks that can be added to the mix for the properly skilled (and properly motivated) individual. While still in stealth these guys are already rocking. Interested – contact Michael Lawless at mlawless@trada.com.
Slice of Lime is looking to for Flash/Flex/PHP designer who is also a programmer at heart. If this is you, apply now!
One of our portfolio companies – Zynga – is looking for great game producers. Mark Pincus, Zynga’s CEO writes about it on his blog.
“We are open to anyone from game industry, consumer internet or i-banking analysts and associates or mgt consultants. You should be numbers oriented, love games and have a competitive spirit. Our company is a meritocracy where those delivering great results advance fast.”
If you are in the bay area and fit this profile, drop an email to flo@zynga.com.
2008 was a fantastic year for entrepreneurship in Boulder. While the VC firm I’m part of (Foundry Group) invests nationally, the partners have made a deliberate decision to live and work in Boulder. As a result, we believe it is our responsibility to participate actively in Boulder’s entrepreneurial community. I’ve been living here since 1995 and have seen and helped Boulder evolve into a serious entrepreneurial hub, as written about by my friend Ben Casnocha in his article Start-Up Town in The American Magazine.
There are many people that are now engaged in the Boulder entrepreneurial community in a wide variety of ways. I believe that entrepreneurship and innovation are the fundamental drivers of long term economic growth in the United States and have dedicated my work life to this area. Even thought no one really knows what the 2009 holds for us, I’m hopeful that the entrepreneurial energy and momentum that has been generated in Boulder over the past few years will continue strongly in 2009.
To get us started, Andrew Hyde put up two posts that are relevant to all Boulder-based software and Internet entrepreneurs. The first is HackSpace at TechStars. On January 15th at 5pm, the TechStars space (the Bunker) will be opened up for anyone to come hang out and hack together. If you know where the Bunker is, just show up. If you need more info, drop Andrew an email at andrew {at} startupweekend.com.
Also up on the Boulder is for Startups site, Andrew has a post titled Boulder Jobs. If you are a company in Boulder that is hiring, drop Andrew a note (andrew {at} startupweekend.com). If you are looking for a job, drop him a note also. Look for a steady evolution of a local job site that builds off of the very successful Boulder Job Fair event a few months ago.
Thomas Friedman has a phenomenal Op-Ed in today’s New York Times. Time to Reboot America. Whether you like or dislike Friedman, he’s nailed this one. Repeat after me: Ctrl-alt-del.
Lijit has five open positions:
- Publisher Support Engineer
- Ad Sales Catalyst
- Business Development
- Web Developer
- UI Web Developer
If you are interesting, drop Lijit an email.