August 11th, 2009

$4.6 Million For Newly Profitable Simply Hired

Silicon Valley based job listing search engine Simply Hired is announcing profitability and a new round of financing – $4.6 million from new investor IDG Ventures and existing investor Foundation Capital. The company is also announcing four quarters of positive cash flow.

Phil Sanderson, managing director at IDG Ventures, joins the company’s Board of Directors. Simply Hired has now raised a total of $22.3 million. → Read More

November 4th, 2008

Teen Bloggerpreneur Jessica Mah's $500 Startup: InternshipIN

Teen blogger/entrepreneur Jessica Mah has a new startup that cost her $500 to launch. It is an internship job board called InternshipIN aimed at college students who want a dedicated instead of having to trawl through the major job boards. Mah, who operated her own Web hosting startup in high school, is now 18 and a junior at Berkeley. She started InternshipIN with two other students. It cost them less than $200 to get a prototype up, and another $300 to get the Web design sliced so that it would load faster. Says Mah:

The project is bootstrapped with a few hundred dollars to cover hosting. Part of my reasoning for starting internshipIN was to show my friends (and the world) that it doesn’t take more than a $200 to throw a website together. The manpower required to put together the site was absolutely minimal.

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October 28th, 2008

Simply Hired Looks For Jobs Overseas

Job search engine Simply Hired is expanding its operations into Canada, UK, Australia and India. The venture-backed startup was once an acquisition target for Google, and was recently called out for showing enormous jumps in traffic numbers that may have had something to do with shady tactics.

Depending on where you look, the company says their database contains in between four and seven million jobs, and claims that 1.5 million will be added thanks to the international expansion. → Read More

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