Posts from Listings

Our portfolio company Adaptive Blue is looking for a great interaction designer to join their team.

Here are the specific skills they are looking for:

* 5+ years of experience: from system-wide interactive interfaces to the smallest of production graphics

* Ability to translate strategic, user-experience, and technical
project requirements into information architecture and schematics, and
then translate those into design

* An appreciation of usability, functionality, innovation, and elegant solutions, with a great sense of typography

* An interest in semantic technologies and the evolution of social networks

* Ability to translate strategic, user-experience and technical
project requirements into both information architecture and design

* Basic knowledge of CSS/XHTML/HTML, as well as how to work with
and improve upon the technical issues associated with cutting edge
interactive development

Here’s their craigslist ad in case you fit the bill and want to learn more.

I can tell you this, the Adaptive Blue team is a lot of fun to work with and they are doing some pretty amazing things trying to make the semantic web a reality.

I’ve been on the board of Alacra since 1999. It’s a company that sells data and services delivered over the Internet to wall street and other large corporations.

They’ve been building some interesting consumer/SMB facing services and recently launched a very different kind of ad network – the premium content ad network – which I blogged about last month.

Now they are looking for a business development person to help build the network. It’s a very interesting job for someone looking to invent a new kind of ad network in the world of stock blogging and financial media. Details are here.

The auction of my brand new 1.1.2 firmware iPhone on this blog worked. I didn’t set the rules particularly well, but you all got the gist of what needed to happen.

I know that Edgeio is now dead, but I still believe in the power of the blog to be a commerce platform. It’s all about audience. If you have the right one, you can sell stuff. I sold the iPhone and four tickets to the Neil Young show yesterday. Pretty cool. I don’t plan on turning AVC into eBay, but I like to use this blog to try stuff out from time to time and yesterday was a good day for selling stuff.

So here’s the deal on the iPhone. It’s going to flynch for $375 plus shipping. He bid $399 but that was after the midnight cutoff, so I am accepting the $375 offer. If flynch flakes out and doesn’t come through then I’ll go with the next best offer.  I’d like flynch to send me an email today (email is on the left sidebar) and we can work out the details.

There was a higher bid from Gilbert. It involved making a $251 gift to the charity of his choice and reading his pitch. Gilbert, send me your pitch. I’ll read it and if I like it, I’ll give $251 to the charity of your choice.

But flynch is getting the iPhone. For his wife.  For Christmas. I love turning lemons into lemonade.

If you are a Neil Young fan, you probably know that he’s playing three shows this week in NYC, wednesday night, thursday night, and saturday night. I have tickets to wednesday and thursday night and need to unload two tickets to thursday night. Here are the details:

Neil Young
Thursday, Dec 13th, 8pm
United Palace Theater, Orchestra Left Center
Row X, Seats 5 & 6
they are two seats in from the center aisle, near the back of the orchestra
here’s the seating chart for United Palace

I paid $117.75 per ticket. I’ll take any reasonable offer. Please send me an email if you are interested. My email address is linked to on the left sidebar of this blog.

UPDATE: I sold these tickets. Got face value. Thanks for all the interest.

I can’t unlock this phone and it’s driving me crazy sitting in the box it came in.

I have to get rid of it. So it’s for sale.

A brand new 1.1.2 firmware iPhone. The best offer I get by midnight monday, Dec  10th gets the phone. The minimum bid is $249, a $150 discount. Hopefully I’ll do better.

Paypal payments only.

This is the last iPhone I buy directly from Apple. From now on, I am only buying unlocked iPhones.

Fuck Apple.

Long AAPL.

If so, please give this job spec on the Twitter blog a read.

We need someone to talk to mobile and IM operators all over the world and manage those relationships.

Even if you aren’t a mobile bus dev person, we’d love leads on good ones that you know.

The job is SF-based.

Outside.in, a Union Square Ventures portfolio company, is growing rapidly and needs someone to focus on the scaling issues. Here’s the job description.

Outside.in is looking for a system administrator to help us manage our growing collection of web and database servers. We are looking for someone with experience in load balancing and clustering web servers running Ruby on Rails and PHP. You’ll be expected to identify possible bottlenecks and scalability issues before they happen, and work closely with developers to address the problems you find.

Outside.in is located in Brooklyn, NY. If you are interested send an email with your resume to jobs.outside.in.

Our portfolio company, Oddcast, is at the cutting edge of social media with their talking animated avatars that allow people to express themselves virtually on the web. They are seeking an information architect to help them take their products and technology to the next level. The job is in New York City and they are willing to do a relocation for the right candidate.

As Adi Sideman, Oddcast’s CEO puts it,

…the position requires strong technical background, yet its a multi-disciplinary position of sorts, not only leading the product development, but working with the CEO and the business managers to shape new consumer products and features, the community structure and the revenue infrastructure…
 
…Its to be in the eye of the storm of developing the next generation Social Media Technology…

Here’s the job spec in case you want a more detailed description of the job:

The position is a critical and key role in the company, driving product from the early conceptual stages through development, launch and ongoing feature enhancements and associated new consumer products.  The product allows consumers to express themselves through avatars within social environments.

Responsibilities include:
·        Responsible for creating product specifications

·        Lead product development working closely with the engineering team

·        Create product marketing schemes, viral features

·        Integrate CRM, Reporting and analytics tools

·        Review, analyze and incorporate customer/market requirements.

About the Candidate:

Experience in writing technical product specifications, a must.
Experience in information architecture, product management or product development required.
Background in development of state of the art internet applications critical.
Must have detailed knowledge of internet & graphics applications
Strong technical background including an Engineering degree or the equivalent.
Experience working in Media on Consumer products is a plus.

Company Contact Info:
Please send resume to Oddcast along with cover letter including salary requirements.

Alacra, a Flatiron portfolio company based in NYC, is looking for a VP E-Commerce.

I’ve been on the board of Alacra since 1999 and it is a great company that people love to work for.

This is a plum job as it involves leading the company in developing consumer facing services (like The Alacra Store) to compliment their best of breed enterprise solutions.

Alacra is particularly interested in people with deep experience in web analytics and search engine optimization.

If you are interested, please email your resume and salary history to [email protected].