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May 2009

Weekly Gem from the Founder Institute: Mechanical Turks for Market Research

Attending the Founder Institute is great for the brain: every session contains nuggets of wisdom and tricks that we can all apply to our current projects. This week, the topic was market research. The discussion included a two-box metric to find out if you have a real market or a niche. At some point, a [...]

Being a New CS Grad in this Economy Sucks

I was representing our company at an event at the Berkeley campus last month and I got to interact with a lot of students about to graduate. In reality, the hot topic was finding jobs in this economy. I always happily give resume advice and generally try to help answer the many questions about finding [...]

1,000 Fair Jobs and Counting

Time to celebrate! We just recorded the one thousand Fair Job: a social member website is looking for a website programmer. While we are at it, it’s also been about 1,000 days since we embarked on the Fair adventure. Yes, about 3 years ago, we came up with the concept that you see today. This [...]