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Bessemer Venture Partners-backed Natpal has a search on for a Chief Scientist for its local onine advertising business.

A year ago, a 20-something Wharton Business School student had this Q&A session with a VC panel:

The venture capitalist, wearing an open-necked shirt and sitting with his arms crossed, cuts in. "You're up and running?" he asks.

"Yes, we have about $500,000 in sales."

"What's your cost per client acquisition?"

"About $300. And we have about an 85 percent retention rate."

The company was Natpal.com, a Wharton Business School incubated, and now a VC-backed start-up that says it is poised for a major national rollout. The startup says that in its phase 1 sales launch it validated the business model by acquiring over 250 customers in over 30 business categories in two major metro markets. Phase 2 is to repeat this method in a national rollout to every major US market.

What is did was to comb through the yellow pages and contact local businesses to convince them to move their marketing budgets to the Net using an ROI model. Natpal charges on a pay-for-performance basis. The platform integrates web plus phone analytics with targeted ad-serving to the major search engines and structured content.

Natpal is led by new CEO Court Cunningham, founder Nathaniel Stevens who was the Wharton School grad and CTO John Merryman who was CTO of Did-it Search Marketing. Bessemer Capital's Alex Ferrara led the investment, which has yet to be announced.

Naptal competes with ReachLocal, LocalLaunch, WebVisible, Leads.com, etc.

Apply to CEO Court Cunningham

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Posted by BT at 12:08 AM | Permalink

The classified ads business is very competitive. Oodle competes with Vast, Trulia, Propsmart, Jobster, Simly Hired, Backpage, Edgeio, Yahoo Classifieds, Google Base, Windows Live Expo, Indeed, Rent.com, Cars.com, Apartments.com and many more. But Oodle recently raised $11M from Greylock, Redpoint and JAFCO and now has money to hire VP for BD.

Email - jobs@oodle.com.

Continue reading "Well Funded Classified Ads Biz Oodle Seeks VP Biz Dev" »

Posted by Paul at 09:15 PM | Permalink

Hotpads is looking for a CEO (its first) who would need to relocate to Washington DC. The company has raised angel funding. The Investment Group of Santa Barbara invested $300K in seed funding in real estate search/map mashup Hotpads. The founders plan to raise $800K more from angel investors.

Hotpads says it will make most of its money by highlighting listings from paying apartments. It also generates revenue from Adsense.

DC-based Hotpads was founded by 3 recent Notre Dame grads

Contact:
Douglas Pope, Director of Operations, HotPads, Inc., 202-232-1581

Continue reading "CEO At DC-based Rental Search Startup Hotpads" »

Posted by BT at 08:36 PM | Permalink

Backed by significant venture capital resources, Waltham, MA-based ZoomInfo has an open req for VP of engineering. The company has a French Canadian Chief Scientist that you will be to contend with but we think this is a good company.

They don't yet list the job on their site so send you resume to their recruiting manager.

View - site

Posted by Paul at 11:47 PM | Permalink

Bazooked asks:
"Do you have technical thought-leadership in web search and categorization using techniques such as semantic analysis, link analysis and inferences drawn from user-based content? Do you understand the inner-workings of search and directory-building? Do you have a point-of-view on related matters such as sub-space clustering, ontology development, contextual/faceted/visual search?" We know we do not.

Contact: thinkbig@bazooked.com

Continue reading "CTO For Stealth Mode Search Co. Bazooked in SF" »

Posted by Paul at 12:18 AM | Permalink

This pre-name Seattle stealth startup needs an VP of engineering/co-founder. More specifically, they need: applications in mobile social networking, group messaging/telephony & voice recognition. They claim they are: "senior Internet executive with a successful track record of launching over 12 ventures resulting in over $200 million in revenue."

Apply here

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Posted by Paul at 10:16 PM | Permalink

Seattle's Medio Systems, a white-label mobile search and advertising solution, has received $30M in 2nd round funding from Accel Partners and returning investors Mohr Davidow Ventures, Frazier Technology Ventures, and Trilogy Equity Partners.

Medio's operator customers include Telus and Verizon Wireless and give them the full package of search and ad monetization. Medio's secret sauce is that it has recommendation and data mining techniques to deliver users relevant and personalized content.

The startup has open reqs for a number of tech positions as well as a couple of key management roles including VP Product Management and Head of Ad sales.

email - jobs@medio.com

Continue reading "Seattle Online Search Play Medio Needs VP Product Marketing And Head of Ad Sales" »

Posted by Paul at 12:15 AM | Permalink

Alright so we are not 100% sure this job is for the somewhat secretive CastTV. But we took clues to reach this conclusion. CastTV started in 2004 by a husband and wife engineering team who self-funded the service. CastTV is in beta and won't go live until the end of this year, according to co-founder Alex Vikati.

The video search engine is trying to be the most comprehensive search database by crawling the Web for video content from major networks, individuals and other producers. CastTV doesn't search inside the video, but IDs files Flash, Javascript and media plug-ins, such as the video players from Microsoft's media player as well as the more recent players from Brightcove to VideoEgg. CastTV plans to make money as a destination site and as a technology provider to media companies.

Apply to job-277822496@craigslist.org

Continue reading "SF-based, Pre-Launch Movie Search Site CastTV Seeks Site COO" »

Posted by Paul at 10:49 PM | Permalink

This post comes via an un-named local search startup that says it is funded by can't find the geeks locally to get their system out of alpha.

Apply to -job-272563311@craigslist.org

Continue reading "Favorite Job Post" "Jesus Christ- finding Programmers in Silicon Valley is Insane (saratoga)"" »

Posted by Paul at 12:07 AM | Permalink

Backed by $17M in VC funding SimplyHired has built a nice Web site but it is strong competition from Jobster and Indeed as well as older jobs sites like Monster and Yahoo Jobs. They need to fill this top position.

Apply – Go to http://www.simplyhired.com/careers.html and submit your resume

Continue reading "VP Mktng And Product At Simply Hired In Mountain View" »

Posted by Paul at 11:53 PM | Permalink

We have no idea who these people are, but they are looking for a CEO for their local search engine. They are based in Los Altos but say they don't care where you work.

apply to: job-266509269@craigslist.org

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Posted by Paul at 05:02 AM | Permalink

http://www.searchme.com
Founded by startup legend Randy Adams, SearchMe is looking to fill the following jobs:

* Software Development Engineers
* Document Repository Engineer
* Relevance Engineer/Scientist

The company recently launched Wikipedia search engine Wikiseek.

Apply to jobs@searchme.com

Posted by Paul at 11:59 PM | Permalink

Krillion's HR message says don't look at their web site, they are still in stealth mode. Nevertheless, you can see they are trying to marry consumer buyers with local sellers. The beta is not terribly compelling and the future is not so bright they need to wear shades. For some this kind of well funded start-up might see cozy but we prefer Web start-ups that show some success before hiring up.

They need:
+ Web Database Architect
+ Data Integration Engineer
+ Core Application Engineer

Contact - Roger Spreen (jobs@krillion.com, 650-965-0222

Continue reading "Hummer Winblad-backed Krillion Plays Footsie With Techs" »

Posted by Paul at 05:30 AM | Permalink

This company is actually based in El Monte, which is well East of downtown LA. Tyloon has shown solid traffic growth and SocalTech reports that they have raised an undislosed amount of angel funding. We just posted on them over at the a:c.

View site
Send your resume to: admin (at) tyloon.com.

Posted by BT at 07:40 AM | Permalink

Pronto.com, an operating business of IAC/InterActiveCorp and has its HQ in New York City. They are just getting out of the starting gate and are looking for a director of sales and some tech postions. Pronto is a comparison-shopping engine that was launched in January 2006, and while traffic is still fairly low it has been well recieved.

Email your resume here: jobs at pronto dot com
View Pronto Web site - pronto.com

Continue reading "Take A Job With Pronto.com, Pronto" »

Posted by Paul at 10:24 PM | Permalink

Aaargh, Beverly Hill's BiggerBoat is on-boarding its whole senior management team. They need VPs of Content, Distribution and Sales. These guys want to build a search engine for entertainment content. Investors are Zone Ventures, Virgin Interactive and First Round.

To apply, email jobs@biggerboat.com

Continue reading "Yo Ho Yo Ho Bigger Boat Needs VPs" »

Posted by BT at 11:40 PM | Permalink

Backfence has created community sites for about a dozen cities to date. It has also raised $3M from from SAS Investors and Omidyar Network as well as angel investors such as Frank Bonsal Jr., co-founder of New Enterprise Associate. Advisors include Michael Rodgers, former GM of Newsweek.com and WashPost.com and Merrill Brown, founder of MSNBC.

Backfence competes with Yelp, SmallTown, Merchent's Circle, Judy's Book and Craigs' List among others. Backfence has yet to have any success getting any traffic. We suspect this is the reason that the start-up has aborted its engineering leadership and is looking for someone who can build product that would be of interest.

Send your resume to Tom Gentry, tom at backfence dot com.

Posted by Paul at 09:50 PM | Permalink

Seattle-based Pluggd is built a search engine for podcasts and by most reviews its a fine one. But is there money be be made there today? Certainly not. They are leading with the great PR they get but applicants would be wise to dig into the numbers.

+ Send apps to jobs@pluggd.com

Continue reading "Why Pluggd: "We're a PR Machine"" »

Posted by BT at 06:10 AM | Permalink

Mountain View-based Aggregate Knowledge is on the look-out for a Chief Scientist. In its job post it boasts that it is VC-backed. That may be true but regulatory filings only indicate that the firm has raised $230K in Series A led by First Round Capital/angels. That might just be enough to cover the salary and Aeron chair for a Chief Scientist.

At any rate, we like what these cats are up to. When we reviewed them over on our sister site the a:c, we called it Alexa + eCommerce.

Aggregate Knowledge's Recommendation Engine claims to increase a site’s conversions and revenue per visit by giving users recommendations based on what users before them have done.

Paul Martino is CEO and CTO - he was founding CTO of Tribe.net. Angel investors are: Valerie Syme (Tribe.net, CompareNet), Josh Kopelman (First Round Capital, Half.com), Howard Morgan (First Round Capital, IdeaLab), Seth Goldstein (Root Markets, AttentionTrust), Richard Melmon (NetService Ventures, Electronic Arts), Matt Ocko (Archimedes Capital)

To apply, email: job-200422107@craigslist.org

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Posted by Paul at 12:33 AM | Permalink

Blogger and Yahoo exec Susan Mernit gets in touch to say:

We have openings for product managers to work on our core personals product and to build some exciting new products--and I would very much appreciate any referrals you can make. These are full-time, funded positions in Sunnyvale, CA.

We have three slots--all are for product managers who would work on my team at Yahoo! and own some product lines. The atmosphere is collaborative and supportive of innovativon and the business unit is highly valued by the company. Think premium services meets social media and see how that resonates.

My ideal candidate might have tried working for a start-up and is now interested in something more secure, but is still entrepenurial and wants to innovate-- and is fairly early in his or her career--even a couple of years out of school is okay--but they either are world class, or have the potential to be world class.

Thanks for reading this...and hopefully helping me find some great new team members.

Thx, Susan

--
Susan Mernit
Y! Personals, Senior Director, Product

Read my blog: susanmernit.blogspot.com
Write - susanmernit at yahoo dot com

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