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BloomReach - Mountain View, CA - http://www.bloomreach.com

We're a fast-growing startup tackling one of the Internet’s most fundamental problems: helping leading online businesses get their high quality and relevant content found by their consumers, when and where they want it. $41M raised from NEA, Lightspeed and Bain Capital.

Check out all of our engineering positions here (including new grads, technical project managers, front-end/back-end and data scientists): http://bloomreach.com/careers/

Specifically, I'm hiring more Inside Sales/SDRs at BloomReach (named one of the Best Places to Work in the Bay Area).

Our Inside Sales/SDR role allows for much more creativity than other companies and offers great opportunities for growth. We're looking for smart, ambitious, strong communicators that can grow into other positions at BloomReach.

Interested? Apply here: https://hire.jobvite.com/j?cj=oD04Wfwn&s=HN


Mountain View, CA (full-time) - BloomReach - http://bloomreach.com/

BloomReach is a fast-growing startup with offices in Mountain View, CA and Bangalore, India, and we’re tackling one of the Internet’s most fundamental problems: helping leading online businesses get their high quality and relevant content found by their consumers, when and where they want it.

$41M raised from NEA, Lightspeed and Bain Capital.

We're hiring for: Software Engineer (Backend, Data or New Grads) --- Data Scientist --- Engineering Internship - Summer 2014 or Winter/Spring 2014

Get all the details here: http://bloomreach.com/careers/

If you have questions, feel free to email me directly at jason[at]bloomreach.com



Mountain View (we just moved onto the same street as YC)

BloomReach (http://www.bloomreach.com) is a small, fast-growing startup that is tackling one of the Internet’s most fundamental problems: helping leading online businesses get their highest quality, most relevant content found by their consumers, when and where they want it. We're delivering a 95% uplift in non-branded organic search traffic for brands like Neiman-Marcus, William Sonoma, Buy.com and others.

Here's a Quora post why one of our engineers chose to work at BloomReach: http://www.quora.com/Stormy-Shippy/Posts/There-is-this-littl...

Backed by Bain and Lightspeed. See our advisors here: http://www.bloomreach.com/who-we-are/our-investors-advisors/

Take a look at open engineering positions here: http://jobvite.com/m?37H9sfw9

Email jason at bloomreach dot com if you'd like to chat before applying. Interns welcome too.

We commit to moving through the interview process quickly with you, if you're interested.


Might be a bit overkill to start, but we started early on with salesforce.com, which provided a good framework that we've grown into. Other CRM solutions like sugarcrm would work too.


A quick response from Posterous. I'd expect nothing less.

Posterous:email spoof detection PayPal:credit card fraud detection

See the section in Founders at Work on the value that better fraud detection created for PayPal.


A great example of teeing people up to sell Google Apps internally. Does much of the basic heavy lifting, then packages for easy consumption (perfect for the first group of people who would evaluate).

High points:

- Money saved / time saved tally

- Easy way to edit the underlying assumptions

- Auto-creation of a tailored slide deck, info poster and spreadsheet


Agreed

Except my 5 person company could save $46,000!!!! and regain 279 hours!

Numbers like this would make most managers BS detectors go off they're almost worse then no numbers at all.


Yeah, my 1-person company could save $32,000 - how, they don't really say. That would be amazing, since my software licensing costs for the year are nil.


You have to click the 'assumptions' on the upper left. It seems that vast figure is generated by comparing to Microsoft Exchange, including sysadmin time.

http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/messaging_value....

Also, it appears that in various 'assumptions' on this site, it is ignoring the total number of people working for the company. When you edit assumptions in one part, it reads...

How many people work at <company>? 1 [...] Think of the last time you worked on a group project. How many people were on that team? 10 [...] What percentage of <company> employees use laptops? 60%

So, apparently 10 times as many people worked on the last project as were employed by the company in total, and .6 of one employee uses a laptop.


That's why it so significant that you can easily change the underlying assumptions (which updates the $$/time calculations).

It was a good counter to the BS meter that initially went off in my head too.


yeah none of those levers really do much for me.


This is ridiculous. Consumers want a flat-rate unlimited option because they don't want a variable monthly payment (or to be nickeled and dimed).

May times they even pay a premium to do so.


But at some level doesn't it cost Verizon more the more I download? Why shouldn't they be allowed to pass down that cost?

I'm sorry, but I just don't see how this is any different from my electricity bill. Sure, I'd love an economical flat-rate power plan, but I don't expect to get it any time soon.

People conflate metered internet with Net Neutrality. They're not the same thing. There's a big difference between Verizon charging more for using lots of bandwidth and Verizon charging more (or blocking) VoIP services that compete with their main business.


One could just as easily equate high speed internet to Cable television. You don't get charged more for watching more.

In the end it's somewhere in the middle. But the reality is that companies are making money now off unlimited access and those handy anti-trust laws we have prevent all the Internet companies from banding together to implement metered access. So even if it did make more sense it's unlikely a provider could implement it without losing out to competition (since again the current model is profitable)


I mostly agree you and think I wouldn't trust this guy as the CTO of a lemon aide stand. I do think we'll start seeing limits on data transfer in the future though. Very high limits but limits none the less.

It's sort of like Gmail. 99.9% of people never come close to filling it up. But for those who go over there's a way to pay for more. As digital video becomes more prevalent I think providers will have to institute some kind of system to crack down on the biggest of data hogs (many already do)


Posterous. It just works.


Amazing how they continue to crank out feature after feature. They are wicked fast..


You don't know anything yet! Too bad I can't talk about it. :(


no themes yet. still.


Looks like it might be worth trying to get to Brian Pokorny of Baseline Ventures first.

More info here: http://www.thefunded.com/funds/partner/17407?name=Ron+Conway


Yes. This is the proper way.

(Correction: TechCrunch just published a news about Ron Conway and the fact that he is leaving Baseline)


any idea how to contact Brian Pokorny? You would think Baseline would have a website.


Perhaps the first test of confidence is seeing if you can reach them at all. I doubt it is just a forum question away.


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