One of our new investments – based in the Los Angeles area – is looking for some hardcore software folks. The company has provided the following job descriptions. If you are interested, have serious software experience, and are either based in the LA area or willing to relocate, drop me an email with a resume / bio / cv / links to stuff you’ve done. The following job descriptions are as creative as the amazing folks behind the company: ...
One of our investments is looking for a couple of strong web API engineers to help them integrate with a variety of existing public web APIs (services like digg, flickr, twitter, etc…). They’re looking to fill these positions in the Boulder area. Feel free to respond to me directly and I’ll forward inquiries along, or just checkout their posting at: https://boulder.craigslist.org/eng/607991214.html
On Google Blogoscoped, I ran into a post titled The Tools Google Uses Internally that is a short overview of a web seminar that walks through the tools a typical Googler works with daily. This led me to the actual presentation (59 slides – many of them screenshots) which I found fascinatingly detailed. If you’ve heard of MOMA, Snippet, and Ideas but never seen screenshots, now you can join the magic special club.
My friends over at Intense Debate are looking for a Technology Evangelist*,* Systems Administrator*, and* Software Engineer*.* If you are interested, drop them an email at jobs@intensedebate.com . While you are at it – if you are a blogger and like comments – give Intense Debate a try. The Foundry Gang has had it on our blogs (Feld Thoughts , AsktheVC , Foundry Group , Seth Levine , Ryan McIntyre , and Ross Carlson) for a while and we are all digging it.
My friends at Lijit are looking for a Database Architect/Administrator, Java Developer, Web Developer, and a UI Web Developer. If you are interested, send a resume to jobs at lijit dot com. In addition to being at a super cool high growth place to work, you get to be one floor above me in downtown Boulder. If you end up getting a job at Lijit via this blog post, tell me and make me take you to Amante for a gelato.
This was so predictable. As I mentioned in my post from a few weeks ago titled Can I Have Some More Crack Please? I am not a macroeconomics guy. I don’t watch the market nor do I watch TV news. However, I do get WSJ.COM alerts (mostly for my own amusement to see what they think is worth emailing out alerts about.) Here was today’s: Feb. 5, 2008 The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged by 370 points, or 2.9%, as investors’ anxiety about a possible recession flared following a bleak reading on the U.S. services sector and cautionary language about the economic outlook from a Federal Reserve official. It was the worst performance of the year so far for the blue-chip average in both point and percentage terms. Other major benchmarks also sold off dramatically. The S&P 500 Index plummeted by 3.2% and the Nasdaq Composite Index dropped 3.1%. ...
I must have Microsoft / Yahoo / Google on my mind this morning. Micah Baldwin has written a delicious scorpion / frog parable about M/Y/G. Until four minutes ago, I thought The Scorpion and the Frog was an Aesop fable, but now due to the beautifulness and truthfulness of all things wikipedia, I now know that it’s the basis of the plot for the Star Trek: Voyager: Scorpion . You – dear reader – might remember it from Natural Born Killers or The Crying Game .
I’ve been chewing on what to say about the Microsoft / Yahoo merger and its impact on entrepreneurship and – more specifically – Silicon Valley entrepreneurship. I was finally gearing up to splat out some of my thoughts on paper, but after reading Marc Andreessen’s brilliant post titled Silicon Valley after a Microsoft / Yahoo merger: a contrarian view , I don’t have to. While I don’t agree with 100% of the things Marc says, he covers all the ground I would have an just saved me 30 minutes of writing.
Zimbra just released v5.0 . For those of you that don’t know Zimbra , it’s a Microsoft Exchange / Outlook competitor that Yahoo bought last year for $350m. While v5.0 looks nifty, I was thinking about the release notice to Zimbra customers for Zimbra v6.0, which I assume will be released after Microsoft completes their conquest acquisition of Yahoo (for those of you that live under a rock in a cave, Microsoft made an offer to acquire Yahoo last Friday for $45b.) ...
I have been a hardcore Outlook user for a long time. I grimaced with empathy as I read through Stan James 67 Reasons That Outlook Sucks . If you are having a frustrating Outlook day, Stan’s rant will make you feel better.