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Interview: Ian Siegel of ZipRecruiter

InfoChachkie

Messenger : Ian Siegel , Co-Founder |CEO ZipRecruiter , Former Executive Product and Technology roles at: MyLife, CitySearch, Stamps.com, Rent.com and Pictage. Value Prop Twitter Style : ZipRecruiter enables employers to post to multiple free job boards with one submission – the fastest way to get a job online across the web.

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Interview: Ian Siegel of ZipRecruiter

InfoChachkie

Messenger : Ian Siegel , Co-Founder |CEO ZipRecruiter , Former Executive Product and Technology roles at: MyLife, CitySearch, Stamps.com, Rent.com and Pictage. Value Prop Twitter Style : ZipRecruiter enables employers to post to multiple free job boards with one submission – the fastest way to get a job online across the web.

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

Both Sides of the Table

And I had been telling my partners for a couple of years that I thought Ethan was one of the more talented entrepreneurs I had come across in San Francisco. We generally have a policy to only fund entrepreneurs once the first version of a product has shipped or it near to shipping. We like to be able to see the concept.

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Bolstering the Partner Ranks at GRP

Both Sides of the Table

Greg was the first person to share with me the insights of mobile conversion and why with a simpler product selection and conversion funnel they would get higher conversion on mobile than on the web. He was also the first one to challenge my conventional wisdom that it made no sense for tech companies to advertise on television.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

Both Sides of the Table

Idealab, led by Bill Gross, who founded Overture, CitySearch and MANY other business [Pasadena]. He was one of the first guys that I know who laid out his stall and said I want to do “big data” investments that take advantage of the explosion of data now available on the web. Like they truly understood entrepreneurs.

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Catalyzing Innovation In Pasadena, with Innovate Pasadena

socalTECH

We want to create businesses and engage with entrepreneurs. My own history, is I was here when Overture was doing great things, and Citysearch, Earthlink, and eHarmony were all here. I think our advantage then was the first wave of web-based innovation was more in the area of hard sciences, which is the domain of JPL and Caltech.

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Interview with Chris Lyman and Corey Brundage, SendLove.to

socalTECH

Effectively, what Corey and I are trying to do, is distill the course of opinions on the web, and turn that into a consumable format. Instead, what we have tried to do, is turn the social web into a sort of representative democracy. First off, talk about SendLove.to and what is it all about? That's everything in the direct noun space.

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