Comments on: SimplyHired Getting Simply Cash

By: bala

bala — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 00:20:02 +0000

congrats to gautam on convincing VCs to put money on the table, ofcourse he did put his own money too!!

i am waiting to see how he can convince recruiters, employers to pay for his service, that google adsense banner does not make lot of money, it is just a distraction than revenue generator (seems like having google adsense banner is becoming web 2.0 thing!!)

By: HJones

HJones — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 02:11:51 +0000

I've been a fan of SH since they launched but I'm now scratching my head in regards to their strategy.

1)Consider recent comments from the CEO that they are builing an "application" and "google does not do apps well" hmmmm? They are a job aggregator. Period. a tie up with LinkedIN and some salary survey firm and a message forum does not turn you into an "application" Jobster.com is an app. SH is a vertical search engine. Let's be clear.

2) They seem too focused on bragging rights, at the expense of engineering. For example they promote themselves as the largest job database in the market with over 4M jobs but most of those are old, archived jobs no longer online and not even viewable.(so what's the point in bragging?)

Check out indeed.com no bragging rights in terms of size of their index but do a comparative search on both sites and see which returns more fast and relevant results. I get the sense SH is a little behind on the back end engineering side , but way ahead on design (cool design for sure!!)

3) Revenue - what's the model? I'm guessing some radical announcement must be around the corner.

By: The Bay Area Is Talking

The Bay Area Is Talking — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 04:20:09 +0000

Simply Flush With Cash

Mountain View based Simply Hired has gotten a lot of buzz in the online job seeking marketplace. Now Om Malik'ssources say the firm is about to get a lot of cash to go with that buzz... eight million bux from...

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:42:47 +0000

I am sorry but I come back to the same question every VC ask a start-up in the online space these days: Why can’t Google do it? If (almost)every company can list openings on their website, and google indexes those listing; how far away is a vertical search button for “jobs”? Not to mention the massive implications of Googlebase for listing jobs and resumes.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:35:15 +0000

Indeed, congrats to the SimplyHired team! They’ve built one of the singularly most useful and elegant online tools I’ve ever used. It works wonderfully well.

By: Mike Rundle

Mike Rundle — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 22:29:00 +0000

That's absolutely fantastic news Om! Congrats to everybody over at SimplyHired.

A few months back I interviewed Dave McClure over at BusinessLogs.com back before he blew up ;) Very good stuff.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 22:23:24 +0000

And Jobster (which used to be WorkZoo, I guess) http://www.jobster.com/