Language arguments aside, it's hard not to look at the three.js 3D examples and not be impressed by how far browser 3D rendering has come: http://mrdoob.github.com/three.js/
Shareaholic makes tools for publishers and users to help them find and share the best content on the web. We're a small, well-funded startup (with killer investors: Dave McClure, Dharmesh Shah, General Catalyst) that reaches 300 million unique users.
We've got an awesome team culture that avoids bureaucracy and gives everyone a meaningful chance to contribute. Everyone codes, even our marketing person.
We're hiring for Lead Infrastructure Engineer, Lead Frontend Engineer and Lead Customer Happiness Engineer:
http://www.shareaholic.com/careers
Cambridge, MA - Shareaholic makes tools for publishers and users to help them find and share the best content on the web. We're a small, funded startup (with killer investors: Dave McClure, Dharmesh Shah, General Catalyst) that reaches 300 million unique users via 200K publishers. We've got an awesome team culture that avoids bureaucracy and gives everyone a meaningful chance to contribute. Everyone codes, even our marketing person.
Cambridge, MA - Shareaholic makes tools for publishers and users to help them find and share the best content on the web. We're a small, funded startup (with killer investors: Dave McClure, Dharmesh Shah, General Catalyst) that reaches 300 million unique users via 200K publishers. We've got an awesome team culture that avoids bureaucracy and gives everyone a meaningful chance to contribute. Everyone codes, even our marketing person.
Cambridge, MA - Shareaholic makes tools for publishers and users to help them find and share the best content on the web. We're a small, funded startup (with killer investors like Dave McClure, Dharmesh Shah +more) that reaches 270 million unique users via 200K publishers. We've got an awesome culture that avoids bureaucracy and gives everyone a meaningful chance to contribute. Everyone codes, even our marketing person.
Cambridge, MA - Shareaholic makes tools for publishers and users to help them find and share the best content on the web. We're a small, funded startup (Dharmesh Shah and Dave McClure) that reaches 270 million unique users via 200K publishers. We've got an awesome culture that avoids bureaucracy and gives everyone a meaningful chance to contribute. Even our Marketing folks code.
We're hiring Web Developers with Javascript and MVC chops. We'd love it if you knew Python, Ruby or even C though. We're all generalists that typically attack full stack products.
It's not a bad idea, but there are two major drawbacks:
1) it's not that profitable. Companies that have tried some variant of this include tunecore and rcrdlbl but both dropped the bits that weren't profitable.
2) imagine startups are like bands; the founders will always do a better job making noise than a hired PR agency. Labels introduce politics and want to see success line their pockets, not the artist's. They will always recommend charging for music, rather than giving it away to reach a larger audience.
The Echo Nest powers amazing music apps with our API, including apps from the BBC, MTV, iHeartRadio and other music services you use and love.
We've got a killer engineering culture, well-stocked beer fridge and you can help shape the future of music. Come meet the whole company and see what it's like this weekend at Boston Music Hack Day: http://boston.musichackday.org/2011/
The after party is at our offices and Questlove is playing. How many of your company parties has Questlove played?
Echo Nest is a music intelligence company that powers music apps with our API, and services like Echoprint, our open source music fingerprinter. Our data powers apps for the BBC and MTV and music services you've used. We've got a killer engineering culture, well-stocked beer fridge and you'll be able to shape the future of music.
Jobs:
Engineer
Junior Engineering Intern
Music Information Retrieval Scientist
QA Manager
Senior Engineer
Web Developer - London Office
I thought about this recently, but because I need to send mail to a few government offices, and to my university for my transcripts. Both have to be done in paper, but I'd love to upload a PDF, add an address and be done with it. I'd try to market this to legal offices as a time saver.
Echo Nest is a music intelligence company that powers music apps with our API, and services like Echoprint, our open source music fingerprinter. Our data powers apps for the BBC and MTV and music services you've used. We've got a killer engineering culture, well-stocked beer fridge and you'll be able to shape the future of music.
The Echo Nest in Somerville, MA (Davis Square) and London
Echo Nest is a music intelligence company that powers music apps with our API, including apps for the BBC and MTV. We've got a killer engineering culture, well-stocked beer fridge and you'll be able to shape the future of music. It's my 4th week here and I love it.
Get a bunch of credit cards, preferrably ones with no/low balance transfer fees. Unless they bite and buy your product, you have no idea how long you're going to be without income and getting more credit while building your startup is hard.
Agreed! I like to use "build for emotion" as the barometer of a good idea. If you can actually see someone become excited to discover your app, and the delight of the first 15 minutes of using it, you're on the road to a good product.