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Where have all the Jobsters gone?
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News last month that Jobster was cutting 38 percent of its staff could be viewed as a blow to those who were let go. Or, maybe not. If history is any clue, there might be a new wave of startup companies emerging from the chaos. After all, former Jobster employees have proven to be quite the entrepreneurial bunch.
With the help of Neil Crist -- an ex-Jobster employee who now runs Acture Consulting -- we have compiled a list of more than 20 former employees of the online recruiting upstart who have played a key part in starting new companies. If we missed any, let us know.
Acture Consulting -- Neil Crist, James Gallagher
Bacon Salt -- Dave Lefkow, Justin Esch
Beyond 411 -- Phil Bogle
Career Connection Network -- Steve Amsden (Former VP of channel sales and partnerships at Jobster)
Feedjit -- Mark Maunder
Holiday GoLightly -- Kerry Rupp
The Job Mob -- John Bergen
MediaMall Technologies -- Tracy Lawrence Burman (former Jobster president)
MobileTek Labs -- David Birnbaum
Offbeat Bride -- Ariel Meadow Stallings
Poll Stacks -- Ryan Kuykendall
Rainier Scientific -- Travis Scott
RealSelf -- Eric Kennedy
RecruitingBlogs.com -- Jason Davis
RescueTime -- Tony Wright, Brian Fioca (sold Jobby to Jobster in 2006)
Talent Maze -- Andrew Wilmot
Three Imaginary Girls -- Dana Bos
Urbanspoon -- Patrick O'Donnell, Ethan Lowry and Adam Doppelt
Veer Orange -- Rob Humphrey
YouSaidIt -- Marty Unger
Wired Pixels -- Rachel Su
I've spoken to a number of ex-Jobster workers over the past few weeks who have said that former CEO Jason Goldberg -- despite some of his leadership foibles -- had a keen eye for finding entrepreneurial folks. What was Goldberg -- who is now running a new New York startup himself called Social Median -- putting in the water over there on Elliott Avenue?
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