Last Friday, KillerStartups.com featured LinkUp in its daily poll (the site asks readers to vote on which of the selected startups will become the next ‘killer’ site on the web). The results made the Obama landslide look more like a razor-thin, legally-mandated-recount Minnesota Senate race with LinkUp annihilating the rest of the field.
Thanks to everyone [...]
Killer Startups is a site that publishes summaries of startup ideas and has users vote on the one that they think will be the ‘killer’ of the bunch. We submitted LinkUp a while ago and they have included it in today’s group.
If you are so inclined, please take 5-10 seconds to go the page (click [...]
A 21 year-old, University of Minnesota student went into an absolute tirade yesterday after being fired from KSTP, the local ABC affiliate here in Minneapolis. The complaint filed after the incident reported that after receiving the bad news from her boss, Jennifer Anato-Mensah screamed, “You don’t know where I’m from, I’ll mess you up.” Then, [...]
Without question, any city with two competing dailies or even neighboring cities with dailies can start counting the days until those dailies either merge or force each other to collapse completely. In a great piece on Followthemedia.com, Philip Stone describes two such markets: Dallas-Fort Worth and L.A.-Orange County. There are undoubtedly others, such as Seattle [...]
Monster moves from the NASDAQ to the NYSE today with the ticker MWW. In seeing the NYSE ad bragging about the switch in the WSJ today, I was reminded that I hadn’t looked up Monster’s stock price recently. Here is the 2-year chart for MWW:
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It was another dismal week for the daily newspaper industry. Here in Minneapolis, the Star Tribune could only muster 6 pages of employment classifieds on Sunday for thye 2nd week in a row (actually it was about 4 with 2 pages of filler). At that level, the paper has got to be inching ever closer [...]
Last week, we released the jobs report for October from LinkUp.com which showed that both new jobs and total jobs on the site rose by roughly 300,000 from September. (LinkUp aggregates and publishes jobs pulled directly from nearly 10,000 company web sites). Given the fact that the jobs are real and current (updated daily) and [...]
While the focus of ‘Diggings’ is pretty varied, covering a broad range of topics related to HR, advertising, technology, recruitment advertising, job boards, and miscellaneous things I think are interesting, the most consistent focus unquestionably centers around the decline and eventual obliteration of the daily newspaper industry. It is a fascinating, endlessly rich phenomena to [...]
If you are in the job market, thinking about a career change, or approaching the end of you college career, Dick Bolles’ book is an absolute must read. Seriously. Buy it.
Even worse than expected, today’s jobs report from the Department of Labor was dismal, with the U.S. economy shedding 240,000 jobs in October. This was the 10th straight monthly decline, and the nation’s unemployment rate now stands at 6.5%, a 14 year high. So far this year, 1.2 million jobs have been lost, with more [...]