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August 31, 2007

CEO For Angel Backed French Social Networking Startup

A couple of Germans say they are "looking for a young entrepreneur to run a new social community startup website in France. The product is currently in development and is scheduled to be released at the end of 2007."

"The candidate should have experience in marketing and be interested in the internet.
We offer an adequate compensation together with equity shares in the company.
The project is initiated and funded by two experienced technology, internet and media managers in Germany."

Apply here

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August 30, 2007

CEO For Bay Area Local Ads Startup

A pre-launch startup called R2B is on the look-out for a CEO/President. You will be expected to raise funding from the company which has its HQ in Fremont.

Send your resume to ceosearch@r2b.com.

R2B has spent the last year building a web 2.0 service that will change local advertising forever. We are ready to launch and our team of 7 is excited about building a world class company. We need a CEO/President. Our technical/production team and leadership is in place and busy. Most of our team is in India. R2B is headquartered in Fremont, CA. The company is currently led by two SV serial entrepreneurs who have run the track a couple of times.

We need a CEO who gets our vision and can sell it to traditional print media companies, local advertisers, consumers, and investors. We have self funded to this point and have built our product. Now we need to raise $1.5m from media savvy investors and form strategic business and marketing relationships with traditional print media companies. This is an opportunity that could be big enough to IPO, and will certainly have a number of interesting exit opportunities.

We are not taking applications for any other position at this time.

Duties:

Reporting to the Board, the President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) will be primarily responsible for leading R2B towards the creation of significant value for R2B customers, partners and shareholders. The President/CEO will establish and be responsible for the overall vision, strategic direction, planning, budgets, and operation of the company. This will include product development and engineering, sales, marketing, operations, finance and administration. Specific expectations of the CEO/President include, but are not limited to the following:

• Build and develop the R2B team, provide strategic and organizational leadership and general management of the business

• Guide the technical development process

• Launch the R2B products, drive annual revenue growth and ensure sufficient profit margins

• Refine and continually communicate the vision both internally and externally

• Develop the strategic plan in cooperation with the Board and the senior management team

• Develop and implement tactical plans that will drive the company toward its strategic goals

• Identify and develop a plan for the development and penetration of high probability market niches

• Develop the company structure, and attract and develop superior professionals and managers who can lead this business through an accelerated growth phase

• Develop and maintain investor and banking relationships to finance the operations and growth of the company

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August 03, 2007

VP BD/Sponsorships at Tapatap In San mateo

San Mateo's Taptatap is looking to hire a BD VP in its San Mateo office. The startup has raised $2.5M in Series A funding from Gabriel Venture Partners, says PEWire. The company has yet to launch but says it will compete in the mobile social networking arena and will be "Your Contest Community" offering infinite contests for fun and prizes."

The company was co-founded by 3 top Infospace execs, led by CEO Isaac Babbs who was GM/VP Mobile Games at Infospace Mobile. This sounds very much like new launches that we have been covering including Kyte.tv and Zannel.

Send a brief overview about yourself and your resume to jobs@tapatap.com

Tapatap, Inc. (http://www.tapatap.com) is a next generation mobile 2.0 content entertainment services company. We are creating exciting consumer focused mobile applications for generation wireless. We are located in beautiful downtown San Mateo, CA and are venture backed. http://www.tapatap.com

Position Summary

The VP of Business Development/Contest Sponsorships is a business development/sales executive who will lead and manage all aspects of Tapatap partnership and revenue relationships including: finding and landing our initial contest partnerships, closing traffic partnerships, technology partnerships, and wireless carrier partnerships. You will be the first business development/revenue executive at our company. Your job is to do lots of deals very quickly!!!!

Responsibilities:
• Create and close contest sponsorship deals with youth focused consumer brands, consumer product companies, media companies, and web 2.0 companies.
• Create and close traffic relationship deals with media companies, web 2.0 companies, and mobile companies.
• Create and close strategic business development deals.
• Drive revenue by finding and signing the best partner for selling and serving ad for mobile and web text and display inventory
• Create the company’s business development plan
• Manage all aspects of the company’s inbound and outbound revenue and business development deals.
• Manage and grow the company revenue and external relationships
• Be the key executive in the company around revenue and growing revenue
• Be a key member of the executive team and will participate in all executive level meetings and board meetings on a regular basis

Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree required. MBA preferred.
• 4+ years of Director of Business Development or sales experience in a consumer online company, media company, or web advertising sales company
• 2+ years experience at high-traffic, consumer facing mobile or online, brand-name company
• A great DEAL CLOSER
• A love of meeting, seeing, and constantly networking with potential partners and peers
• A great rolodex of existing relationships in LA/Hollywood media companies, NY media companies, Bay Area web 2.0 companies, mobile companies, and youth focused product companies
• Strong experience in mobile and web 2.0 space
• Mobile content entertainment sales and business development experience a plus.
• Video game business development and revenue experience a plus
• Ability to target and understand the 16-35 demographic----you need to like and love this demographic
• Successful track record building consumer internet traffic or mobile web traffic through business development deals
• Smart, creative, dynamic, and high energy person
• Past experience building a bd/revenue team and all aspects of the department from only you from the ground up
• Excellent PowerPoint/Excel/Word skills.
• Excellent technical skills with computers and phones.
• Ability to multitask and deliver on aggressive timelines.
• Results-oriented with demonstrated leadership skills
• Critical thinker with a bias towards action
• Variety of media experience primarily in the mobile and online entertainment environments
• Expertise in analyzing data, trends, events
• Proven ability and flexibility to steer in a market that is changing constantly and rapidly
• Ability to manage multiple responsibilities and projects
• Good sense of humor, positive attitude, and proven dedication
• Enjoy working in small teams at small companies where you personally build something from nothing very fast

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CEO Of IDG India Startup (Managed security)

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An IDG India partner has put out an all points bulletin in search of a CEO to run his managed security services startup. It looks like the company has been conceived at IDG and has not yet been launched yet. Managed security has been a great growth business and it makes sense to operate such a high head count business in India.

Apply to IDG India's Sudhir Sethi

Description

1. Company Vision
 Build leadership position in a global service niche play for managed security services.

2. Company Goal
 Achieve revenue of US$ 100 million in 6 years.
 Partner with industry leaders in identified verticals.
 Build eco-system for innovators, application developers, and developer community and solution providers.

3. Role & Responsibilities of the CEO
 CEO will achieve revenue of US$ 100 million in 6 years with a PAT of 20% CEO will define & drive the Strategy (Business & Functional) and organizational growth to attain a goal of $100million revenue base within 6 years timeframe with a superior profitability.
 CEO will be accountable & responsible for the P&L of the New Co. CEO will lead the New Co. business during the start-up & rapid growth phases and in the process establish a full-fledged firm with hi-performance teams & organizational mechanisms for business acquisition, delivery & other support functions.
 The incumbent will interact extensively with the board in ascertaining and in many ways evolving the business plans. He or she will intensely contribute on assessing the market opportunities, identifying pockets of immediate synergies with revenue potential and areas for mid-term to long-term growth. CEO would evolve a 5-year business agenda split quarter wise on the revenue projections, operating costs, cash flows, investment-outlays and other parameters. The CEO would take on the ownership of the business plans, internalize it sufficiently with the team and strive to deliver the plans.
Profile of the Ideal candidate:
4. Essential
 Clearly a top end software executive who is well groomed to operate as a senior management executive to impact customer acquisition & set up internal process & systems to deliver on this challenge.
 Should have a customer acquisition experience at CEO,CTO,CIO level globally Has a Business Acumen skill. Has solid leadership presence. Should have held minimum of 10 years of P&L ownership
 Has built relationship with CEO/CIO of Large MNCs / Fortune 500 companies. Should have global exposure & build global businesses
 Has been part of the success story of home grown Indian companies in global consulting, services & Products space, the first domain as we envision would be candidate from one of top tier Indian software companies, who has essentially operated at the leadership level.
 An engineer-MBA from a reputed institute would be the education background.

5. Desirable
 Rolodex of customer contacts & track record of long-term client relationships with sales book in excess of US$ 50mil. Exposure to Network Security space.
 Should have high levels of Commitment and motivation towards the vision and goal Should have high perseverance and Humility A high degree of entrepreneurial spirit coupled with a good track record as a leader. High Stature individual with global mindset having worked or exposed to people & challenges, which are complex & global in outlook. With his experience & personality he should lead the organization & people, wherein alignment to him is only natural.

6. Compensation
 Attractive compensation and significant options.

7. Location Bangalore

8. Reporting to
 Board
9. Targeted Joining Date
 Oct 2007

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