Comments on: Is It Too Late To Short Monster? http://blogs.jobdig.com/diggings/2007/08/23/is-it-too-late-to-short-monster/ A blog about recruitment advertising, media, publishing, HR, work, & technology, among other things Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:42:15 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5.2 hourly 1 By: Martin http://blogs.jobdig.com/diggings/2007/08/23/is-it-too-late-to-short-monster/comment-page-1/#comment-15676 Martin Fri, 24 Aug 2007 08:19:05 +0000 http://blogs.jobdig.com/diggings/2007/08/23/is-it-too-late-to-short-monster/#comment-15676 Don't count them out just yet, I agree that their US product is horrendously user UNfriendly with all its popups and interstitials and that they quite possibly are being outrun by competitors there, but the point is almost 40% of their revenue now comes from International and in each different region they are on different technical platforms to the one in the US and treat their users very differently - and face very different competition... Finally, if they are true to their word and invest $80 million in the product they could make a comeback in style, no one has that amount to spend on product development and then on top of that match their marketing budget. As to the "security breach" they are just the first and biggest target for this kind of thing - think any other job board would have fared better? I still see no evidence of a lack of security on their side - the access was through legitimate login credentials who in turn where probably phished or stolen through emails etc. They may be wounded, but they're still a bear... and bears can fight back... Don’t count them out just yet, I agree that their US product is horrendously user UNfriendly with all its popups and interstitials and that they quite possibly are being outrun by competitors there, but the point is almost 40% of their revenue now comes from International and in each different region they are on different technical platforms to the one in the US and treat their users very differently – and face very different competition…

Finally, if they are true to their word and invest $80 million in the product they could make a comeback in style, no one has that amount to spend on product development and then on top of that match their marketing budget.

As to the “security breach” they are just the first and biggest target for this kind of thing – think any other job board would have fared better? I still see no evidence of a lack of security on their side – the access was through legitimate login credentials who in turn where probably phished or stolen through emails etc.

They may be wounded, but they’re still a bear… and bears can fight back…

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