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This site is pre-launch but if you are a news junkie the concept sounds fun. LA-based investor Russell Fine is launching a news oriented social network called Opposing Views. What will happen on the site: "You will find rich information on important issues -- presented by the most respected authorities on the issue, whatever it is. Organizations and experts from around the world use Opposing Views to present their views and respond to each other's challenges. If something changes in the news today, you'll know what the experts think about it."

Fine has a long history of founding tech startups:
+ Chairman of the Board, Orion Data Systems, Inc.
+ Managing Partner, MF Investments, Llc
+ Co-founder, Youbet.com Inc. (NASDAQ:UBET)
+ Co-founder, Cloud-9 Interactive
+ Co-founder, Middleware Telecom Corporation
+ Co-founder, PC-Totes

Apply here

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Posted by BT at 06:45 PM | Permalink

Pre-launch, funded Ping Interactive is looking to hire a VP of Integrated Brand Marketing in its NYC office. The company was founded in Toronto. They want someone with familiarly with event planning and premium “female” orientated consumer or business brands.

For more information please contact Lorien Gabel at lagbel@uping.com or 646-277-7345

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Posted by Paul at 05:27 AM | Permalink

VC-backed traffic magnate Digg is hiring a VP of marketing. Founded in 2004 and backed by top-tier investors, Digg is currently in the top 20 most visited sites in the US and the top 100 in the world according to Alexa traffic rankings. You will report to the VP of Marketing and Business Development. You should probably be young enough and hip enough to apply.

Send your resume and a cover letter to jobs@digg.com

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Posted by Paul at 09:24 PM | Permalink

Named for Winston Churchill by founders Tony Perkins and Rich Karlgard, Churchill Club dishes up an almost weekly series of events that nearly every VC has attended at one point. It somehow mixes politics and technology. The not-for-profit outfit is looking to hire a CEO.

Submit a cover letter and resume to hr@churchillclub.org

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Posted by BT at 04:52 AM | Permalink

Named for Winston Churchill by founders Tony Perkins and Rich Karlgard, Churchill Club dishes up an almost weekly series of events that nearly every VC has attended at one point. It somehow mixes politics and technology. The not-for-profit outfit is looking to hire a CEO. If you have some experience organizing events and think you wouldn't mind exchanging words with Meg Whitman and Bill Clinton this could be a good gig.

Submit a cover letter and resume to hr@churchillclub.org

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Posted by BT at 04:52 AM | Permalink

By all accounts the JibJab founders are cool guys and they have made a lot of coin off their online comedy biz. With all the new humor sites coming online JibJab has some serious competition so if you do the interview you should push to be convinced that these guys can keep the laughs coming.

Email - jobs@jibjab.com.

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Posted by BT at 09:31 PM | Permalink

Started in late 2006, and founded by some Yahoo refugees, NestEggr.com is a personal finance community site. They need a head of BD. They want someone with blogger cred who can do strategery and get traffic. You'll report to Ravi Dronamraju, who worked on Yahoo Finance for 3 years. Before that he managed the engineering team for Yahoo! Autos.

Send your resume via careers@azooba.net.

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Posted by BT at 09:32 PM | Permalink

GM for Yahoo News is a huge gig. Don't believe the hype. Google has not "killed" Yahoo. It's still a fast growth company that has a lot of smart people. Semel has to go but if you have the chops this is a much better job than working at some newspaper.

Visit Yahoo Careers

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Posted by BT at 11:19 PM | Permalink

VoIP Review is looking for someone to head their tech efforts. This site aggregates information on various VoIP plans and feeds that to CNET and other sites. The pay doesn't seem great $50-100K per year. This looks like a fairly small operation but they do seem to have a head of steam.

Apply to - Careers@VoipReview.biz .

Continue reading "Tech VP For Denver's VoIP Review Site - "take powder days when you hit milestones"" »

Posted by BT at 06:53 PM | Permalink

This privately-held Mountain View-based strikes us as a Dolby Labs of Sports TV. They develop cross platform tech - television, interactive, iTV, wireless, gaming. This position reports to the Chief Operating Officer. Sounds like a fun gig to us sports fans.

Submit a resume, including salary history to careers@sportvision.com. Code: VPPM1006.

Continue reading "SportVision - Pioneers Who Developed The Yellow First Down Line For Football - Hiring Product Marketing VP" »

Posted by Paul at 08:52 PM | Permalink

We hadn't come across XOS before - maybe that's because the are in Sanford, FL and we are not - but they impress. XOS hooks up with collegiate sports programs and makes them shine by hooking them up with web sites, wireless services, ad sales, and more. XOS' top open position is an ad sales leader.

Apply to jointheteam@xostech.com!

Continue reading "FLA-based Online Sports/Inc. 500 Lister XOS Tech Needs Ad Sales Head And More" »

Posted by Paul at 11:39 PM | Permalink

PlumTV justed raised $20M to expand into other resorts. It's a budding TV network that just operates in swank resorts towns.

If you are interested please send your resume to team@plumtv.com:

Continue reading "Newly Funded PlumTV Needs GM For Vail, CO Ops" »

Posted by Paul at 10:21 PM | Permalink

SOMA, San Francisco-based Soundflavor raised $2.3M in December 2005. It's a bit of a re-start - formerly Siren Systems. It now works with iTunes to help users to organize and discover music. We don't sense momentum but check it out for yourselves.

Appy to jobs at soundflavor dot com

Posted by Paul at 06:14 AM | Permalink

"Attributor is an early stage company that is enabling new landscape-shifting mechanisms for content publishing across the internet." We think they must have been laughing when they wrote that it is so vague. Attributor says it is led by seasoned Internet entrepreneurs and backed by some of the earliest investors in companies like Google, Skype and Overture. We are hiring.

They are looking for a web developer and a systems engineer.

Apply ato info (at) attributor (dot) com

Continue reading "Build "Landscape Shifting Mechanisms" For Redwood City's Stealth Attributor" »

Posted by Paul at 06:05 PM | Permalink

Some anonymous guys lead with the fact that they are Stanford graduates. Is that supposed to make people quit their jobs at Google? Stanford football is 0-8 and their band and tree have been banned, and you are supposed to be smart guys? At any rate, they say they are funded and are looking for software athletes to get this thing going.

To apply, email job-229864509@craigslist.org

Continue reading "Code For Funded San Mateo Wellness Start-up" »

Posted by Paul at 05:40 PM | Permalink

We just have a few simple things we want to do and are looking for someone we can trust to parachute in and fix them. We'd expect this to be the start of an on-going relationship.

email - jobs at techgigger dot com

Posted by Paul at 12:40 AM | Permalink

We had a really lousy run-in with a Hawaiian tech start-up back in the day -- you don't want to know. So this search for a "brilliant CTO" by a stealth-mode, well funded Hawaiian start-up freaks us out. The start-up describes itself in these vague terms: "innovative service enables cross platform media delivery and management in a way that fits seamless [sic] with each user’s lifestyle." This company may be legit, but if the principals had anything to do with WorldPoint Interactive and have any connection to the Swiss financier Massimo Fuchs or the plastic surgeon Dr. Bob, we recommend you run for you life.

To apply, email job-219804234@craigslist.org

Continue reading "Suspicious Hawaiian Start-up Needs CTO - Book-em Dan-O" »

Posted by Paul at 11:04 PM | Permalink

Fluendo has developed an open-source video streaming product called Flumotion. It is built on the GStreamer multimedia framework, for Unix and Linux platforms. It has also developed an open source home theater product called Elisa Media Center.

"Fluendo is looking for a developer to work on the Elisa media-center project. Tasks include integration of new plugins and core features in Elisa. The applicant may also have to contribute in the brother project, Pigment, the toolkit and rendering engine used by Elisa."

You'll need to move to Barcelona and know either: multimedia: Linux/Unix, and GLib/GObject. Twisted and embedded programming would be cool.

To apply: contact Philippe Norman philippe (at) fluendo (dot) com

Posted by BT at 12:11 AM | Permalink

Music lessons online businesses have surpised with good up-take. iPlayMusic is a Mountain View, CA-based start-up that claims to have drawn funding. The start-up is run by Stewart Putney who previously ran Knight-Ridder Digital’s online shopping and coupon properties.

Send resume to: job-213347655@craigslist.org

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Posted by BT at 07:02 PM | Permalink

NBA Digital writes in to let us know that they have a couple of open gigs.

The idea being that in 25 years you might have a shot at the commissioner's chair.

- Account Manager: This person would manage all NBA digital customers on a daily basis. Ideally, we're looking for someone with 2-3 years experience.
- Sales Coordinator: This candidate would handle all incoming leads, manage all digital media research & collateral and help manage the international offices. This is an entry level position.

Send resume to: shershkowitz@nba.com

Posted by BT at 06:03 PM | Permalink

The FeedRoom sells video services to PR firms. The start-up was founded 7 years ago and is VC-backed. This is not a hyper-growth opportunity for sure but it does appear that it will survive.

Continue reading "NYC's The Feed Room Booking a Finance VP" »

Posted by BT at 07:20 AM | Permalink

This looks more like a glorified Web master position than a GM role. In fact you would report to the GM. There is plenty to do here. Must be able to keep up with the Facebook crowd.
Apply here - https://jobhuntweb.viacom.com/jobhunt/main/displayjob1.asp

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Posted by BT at 07:00 AM | Permalink

A buddy works for College Humor in NYC and says good things about it. Youngsters coding away, getting heaps of traffic. Life couldn't be better.

The company is now owned by Connected Ventures, which is owned by IAC. Connected Ventures owns CollegeHumor, Busted Tees, Defunker, Vimeo, and several other sites. It has 15 bodies in a lower Manhatten loft. The company is looking to man up with these positions:
- General Manager
- Manager of Marketing
- Senior Front End Designer

Posted by Paul at 06:49 PM | Permalink

In a recent entourage episode, one of the characters was the writer for a movie review blog who made the stars' skin crawl with the power of his blog. We suspect this was based on Rotten Tomatoes which gets sick traffic.

Rotten Tomatoes needs a Web developer in its Emeryville, CA office. It seems like a find job. The glamor of Hollywood without having to live there. The allure of a startup + ownership by News Corp. (via IGN ownership).

Perhaps only the Internet Movie Database Gets More Traffic Within the Movie Category

To apply: write staffing@ign.com

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Posted by Paul at 12:47 AM | Permalink

Al Gore has backed an SF-based TV start-up called Current TV "with content created by, for and with an 18-34 year-old audience." The start-up of course has a Web site and its is looking to fill a number of slots including a Director of Online Data Strategy & Analysis.

We have heard from an insider that its a nice place to work, but launching a TV network is tough.

To apply, email resume and cover letter to comments thealarmclock com

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Posted by Paul at 06:38 AM | Permalink

The New York Observer is looking for someone to head up their online division. We understand that management at this quirky NY print newspaper is quirky itself. However, there seems like plenty of upside here. Traffic to the site today is very low in contrast to NY blogs like Gothamist. The paper has a loyal audience and there is no reason why this cannot translate online.

To apply, email comments thealarmclockcom>

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Posted by Paul at 09:39 PM | Permalink

HuffPost Gets Mad Traffic

Softbank's recent $5M investment in Huffington Post is a bit controversial. Why does the company need the money? What kind of return can VCs really expect? What happens when the internet ad market comes back down to earth? Who cares if you are employed there and the company is conservative with its cash - but that remains to be seen. PE Wire which has seen the company's financials says it is not yet profitable. With all the hires HuffPost is making that is going to make it even harder.

If we were young and really into media, HuffPost would be a fun place to work we think. But is it the smartest place to get a good return on stock? Absolutely not.

View - Jobs At Huffington Post
- Controller (NYC)
- Product Manager (NYC)
- Sysadmin (NYC)
- Associate Editor (LA)
- Secretary (LA)

Posted by Paul at 12:48 AM | Permalink

If you are tired of the Bay Area's prices or want to be closer to the Tahoe slopes, why not run the SacBee.com? Granted you would be working for The Man. The SacBee's old school ways would drive most crazy, plus it is owned by McClatchy so you'd have a lot of levels of bosses.

But Sacramento is on the rise and its not as bad as its reputation. You might even might the Governator on the job.

View - Technical Leader (SacBee)

Posted by Paul at 05:54 AM | Permalink