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We wrote about SharedBook back in April when we learned that its founder had invested in this custom book publisher.

SharedBook has received $15M in private funding to date from a single investor group led by Yossie Hollander.

Prior to SharedBook, Mr. Hollander founded New Dimension Software, where he was chairman and CEO, and took it public in 1992. The company was sold to BMC Software in 1999 for $650M. In 1990, he founded Jacada [NASDAQ: JCDA], another enterprise software firm, and is currently serving as its chairman. Competitors include Blurb and QOOP.

Apply to CEO Caroline Vanderlip here.

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Posted by BT at 10:50 PM | Permalink

VP of Photography is an odd job title, but that's what Bella Pictures does, it's a national wedding photo company. The 4 year old San Francisco-based company has been bootstrapped by its founders, including its CEO who was an exec at recruiting business Brass Ring.

Apply here

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Posted by BT at 07:12 PM | Permalink

Philly's Preclick closed its Series A financing round of $1.6M from investors LORE Associates, Mid-Atlantic Angel Group, Robin Hood Ventures, and SJFVentures. Preclick private labels photo services for WalMart, HP Costco, 3M, Sandisk, DotPhoto and others.

This is a pretty amazing stat: With WalMart and Costco distribution, Preclick photo software reaches 40% of US retail photo customers.

The company is looking for its Chief Operating Officer or VP Operations. You can work out of Seattle, Manhattan or Central NJ.

Apply to CEO Brian Sigma

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"A lot of companies are trying to hire," said founder and CEO Max Levchin, who co-founded PayPal before selling it to Ebay for $1.5 billion in 2002. VCs are pouring cash into a new wave of web startups. "Add to that the non-stop vacuuming of Valley talent by Google. ... If you're not willing to lower standards, you're looking at a long time between hiring cycles."

Slide has raised $20M from Mayfield Fund, Khosla Ventures and others over three rounds and is looking to grow headcount from 46 to 75 pronto but is having trouble recruiting and training.

On the churn side, Slide has some HR horrors:
One caller pretended to be a Slide VC planning a special event, asked for all of the engineers' names. Another mailed a biz plan to some engineers. Slide's HR department reports that every candidate is getting 3-4 offers. To fill the ranks, the company is hiring newbies from Mexico.

Slide is currently looking to fill these jobs:
* Flash Developer
* Server Coder
* Senior Web Developer
* MySQL Database Architect
* Web QA Engineer
* Desktop QA Engineer
* Systems/Network Architect
* Director, Human Resources
* Director (or VP), Business Development
* Product Manager (Web)

Read - S.F. photo-startup Slide eases hiring binge (SF Business Journal)

Posted by BT at 10:29 PM | Permalink

Earlier this month, San Francisco-based Tiny Pictures an Francisco-based Tiny Pictures raised an undisclosed amount of Series A from Mohr-Davidow Ventures. It is set to launch into beta an application called Radar for camera phones. Tiny Pictures will let you invite friends to view "channels" of your photographic snippets as you travel. The company's CEO John Poisson was head of mobile media research and design groups for Sony in Tokyo.

Send your resume to jobs@tinypictures.us

Posted by Paul at 08:05 AM | Permalink

VP Finance/Controller – Riya Inc

Riya is a visual search engine that recently launched its site at www.like.com . Like.com is visual shopping site that allows users to search for items that look similar based upon shape, color, pattern, and more. The company raised $15M From Bay Partners a year ago and rumors were that Google was to buy them. You can read about it here:

Businessweek
http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/08/riyas-likecom-is-first-true-visual-image-search/
Scobleshow

VC Peter Rip is an investor and we recently heard him say great things about management.

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Posted by Paul at 12:54 AM | Permalink

PhotoShelter allows independent photographers & other imaging professionals to archive, distribute and sell their own images. PhotoShelter provides a viable alternative to legacy distribution and sales outlets, and is used by over 3,000 photographers worldwide. The company's stock is surely on the rise as a top player in this space - WireImage - was bought by Getty Images for $200M last week.

The company is run by Allen Murabayashi, CEO who was a founding employee and SVP of Engineering at HotJobs.com.

Send resume and cover letter to jobs@photoshelter.com.

Continue reading "Marketing VP For Manhatten's Fast Growing Photoshelter" »

Posted by Paul at 12:30 AM | Permalink

We have no idea where is Metuchen, NJ, but that's the HQ of photo and video storage company Phanfare. The start-up is a darling of Web 2.0 elites.Phanfare sells unlimited storage of photos and videos up to 10 minutes long in monthly, yearly and lifetime plans costing $7, $55 and $300 respectively.

If you sign-up to move to Metuchen, your competitor will be Sharpcast and Fabrik. Phanfare has some fairly impressive manager resumes and appears to be funded by Acadia Woods Partners.

+ .NET GUI Application Developer
+ Mac OS X GUI Application Developer
+ ASP.NET Web Application Developer
+ VP, Business Development
+ Director, Marketing

Apply to - jobs@phanfare.com.

Posted by BT at 01:07 AM | Permalink

We profiled Picateers over on the a:c They are Shutterfly for the school fund raiser set. They just got an unknown amount of funding. In this potion, you would report to the VP of Engineering, Rick Goell, who was a director of engineering at Oracle.

Yea, we know that everyone thinks that there are way too many Internet photo start-ups, but we like Picateers positioning.

To apply, email cooljobs@picateers.com

Continue reading "Chief Web Architect For San Mateo's Newly VC Funded Picateer" »

Posted by Paul at 06:14 AM | Permalink

Ourstory is a Mountain View, CA start-up backed by El Dorado Ventures, Benhamou Global Ventures and Venrock. Former 3Com CEO Eric Benhamou is on the board. The company raised $6.3M last January.

Unless OurStory had a very compelling story for next steps, we would not feel compelled to take a job there. Granted the site is in beta but a richly funded company like this it has no more traffic than a good Mommie blog.

To apply, email job-212944061@craigslist.org

Continue reading "Photo Blogging Platform OurStory Funded To Hire" »

Posted by BT at 08:16 PM | Permalink

Guba is a YouTube runner-up that is getting into movie distribution. Based in San Francisco, Guba must be having trouble getting qualified candidates in the door as it boasts of taking resumes with one hand and sticking an iPod in your hand with the other.

"GUBA is offering a free iPod nano to all candidates who successfully complete the interview process. This is an incentive to compensate candidates for the use of their valuable time spent interviewing for the various openings. Additionally it is a taste of what's to come as an employee of GUBA, as GUBA is a company that has a lot to offer its employees in the form of perks and benefits."

View - Guba Jobs

Posted by Paul at 05:35 AM | Permalink

We posted about some job opening at Piczo back in July. The company is now looking for a VP of Software Engineering at its San Francisco HQ.

Again, fast growing Piczo targets teens and gives them photo website-building tools with an online community twist. It has raised nearly $4M from Sierra Ventures and Catamount Ventures, It has been around since 2004. CEO is Jeremy Verba, former EIR at Foundation Capital, and former founder and CEO of E! Online. He replaced the former CEO Paul Remer.

Apply Here

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Posted by Paul at 02:36 AM | Permalink

PayPal founder Max Levchin + angel Esther Dyson have just teamed up on a $6M Series A investment into Evernote. We think that Evernote has developed a nice and useful application for note-taking and Web capture that crosses PCs and smart phones.

For the marketing VP job, we note that Michael Lunsford recently left that post with Evernote. It would be interesting to know why he left.

View - Evernote Jobs
- Vice President of Marketing
- Product Manager
- Sales Director
- Software Sales Account Executive
- Sr. Software Engineer
- Web Developer

Read - Desktop Note-taking/Screen Grab Outfit EverNote Funded by PayPal Founder Levchin (the a:c)

Posted by BT at 08:30 PM | Permalink

Online photo pioneer Shutterfly has leaked plans for an imminent IPO that could raise as much as $92M, giving it a valuation of $400-$500M.

The company, which was founded by Netscape founder Jim Clark, now has about 200 employees and has open reqs for another 20 or so. While Shutterfly is long in the tooth, having been founded back in 1999, online photography services is one of the fastest growing eCommerce segments. As a result, Shutterfly is besieged by competition.

The top two jobs that it is looking to fill prior to the IPO are:

- VP Consumer Marketing
- VP of Product Engineering

Read - Shutterfly Hoping for a Picture Perfect IPO (SFGate)

Posted by Paul at 06:05 AM | Permalink

Piczo's traffic is growing fast and you can hear the servers groan across town. The company is looking for not one but two operations guys.

Piczo targets teens and gives them photo website-building tools with an online community twist. It has raised nearly $4M from Sierra Ventures and Catamount Ventures, It has been around since 2004. CEO is Jeremy Verba, former EIR at Foundation Capital, and former founder and CEO of E! Online. He replaced the former CEO Paul Remer.

You Take the Job At Piczo, And You Will Have to Deal With This

Read - Operations Administrator

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