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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?