June 5th, 2012

No Resumes, Just Skills: Smarterer Grabs $1.75M From True, Google Ventures; Tony Conrad Joins Board

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Resumes, they say, are ineffective but Boston-based startup Smarterer believes it has the solution. The company’s platform provides job searchers with a simple way to show employers what they know by taking quizzes in subjects that range from engineering to music. Smarterer then crowdsources its test designs and employs a smart ranking system to give job searchers a score. Finally, it allows them… → Read More

March 26th, 2012

Smarterer Hits 5M Questions Answered In Its Quest To Help You Show Employers Your Skillz

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As Education 2.0 looms, we’re seeing a rise remote learning, self-education, smart software, all of which is allowing people to learn and to teach at their own pace — inside the classroom or out. As this becomes more and more true, coupled with the noise that one finds online today in job forums, employers and businesses are looking for more effective ways to identify the right candidate with the… → Read More

June 13th, 2011

Smarterer Raises $1.25M To Prove You're Good At Anything In 60 Seconds Or Less

Ever wished you had an easy way to tell the world (and potential future employers) just how great you are at using Microsoft Office, Salesforce, and.. err.. Facebook? Your chance is coming.

Today a new company called Smarterer has raised $1.25 million from True Ventures and Google Ventures, with participation from angels including Mark Gerson, Shikhar Ghosh, Scott Kurnit, Peter Lehrman, Thomas… → Read More

September 23rd, 2008

G1: The only phone that makes you smarterer

Yo yo yo, what’s the hizzy yo? I’m headed down to the T-Mobile store cause I want to get me a funnerer phone than the LG Voyagerer. See, the phone makes you smarterer, coolerer, and funerer than all the other phones out there and the sheer fact that I’m writing this proves that T-Mobile is trying to make this campaign viruserer than all the other campaigns out there and is aiming… → Read More