Looking for a epic community manager with this epic job description
Hey you: Want to change the world, get rich, build something epic &
work alongside people that kickass as much as you do?
Join our company/team/cult!!!
We’re looking for a full-time community manager for our booming Mahalo
Answers product at our offices in Santa Monica. No remote workers
please! We’re looking for a web-native who lives in online
communities. Your best way to get this gig is to show a long history
of contribution in online communities like forums, delicious,
stumbleupon, wikipedia, your blog, someone else’s blog, twitter,
facebook, etc.
We’re looking for someone who LOVES to discuss, debate and socialize
online. This is a dream job for someone who is suffering from internet
addiction, ADD and/or OCD. Zero to three years experience is fine, but
what we’re really looking for is skillz, positivity, hustle and
passion.
Note: Mahalo is an intense, but fun, place to work. Here’s the list of
benefits in somewhat random order from my perspective:
1. Typically people who work here are given 2-5x as much
responsibility as they would anywhere else. As such, the amount of
experience you will get working at Mahalo will EASILY take five years
out of your career path.
2. We have Mahalo Fit Club/Tae Kwon Do five days a week at 6PM (free
obviously).
3. Healthy breakfast and lunch are provided daily, plus cut fruit from
the farmers market brought to your desk at 3PM. We don’t order
unhealthy food, so combined with #2 you’ll “suffer” from the Mahalo
-10 (i.e. most folks who work here drop 5-10 pounds!).
4. You can have as many computer monitors as you like (I have two 30″
and one 24″ monitors on my rig).
5. You will get a nice chunk of stock in a company that is now the
179th largest in the United States after only two years. Our team goal
is to get to the top 100 sites in the next year and top 50 in two
years. It sounds crazy, but About.com, eHow, Wikipedia, Yahoo Answer
and Answers.com are all in the top 40 sites and our product is going
to be MUCH better than those products in the next year or two. That
leads us to believe, based on our delusional nature, that we can
actually be bigger than those sites.
6. Our investors include the most successful and visionary people on
the planet. They share our delusional world view and have blessed us
with years and years of runway (aka cash in the bank). These investors
include Sequoia Capital (which invested in Atari, Cisco, Yahoo, Google
and YouTube), Elon Musk (who did PayPal and is now doing SpaceX.com
and TeslaMotors.com), NEWSCORP (i.e. Mr. Murdoch) and my pal Mark
Cuban (who invested in my last company Weblogs, Inc. and gives me
great advice all the time).
7. There are no “eeyores” or a-holes at our company. They don’t last
and we rarely make a mistake and hire one.
8. We don’t have any politics or cliques in our company because it is
a *flat* organization where anyone can talk to or challenge any other
member of the team. In fact, there are no “managers” on our team
because we only hire self-starters who don’t need to be managed. This
makes working here unlike any other place I’ve worked. In those other
organizations you always wondered “how on earth does this person have
a job here?” and “what does that person actually do?” Well, we don’t
have “those” type of people.
9. You get to work for one of the most insane bosses you ever have.
After only a few months you’ll have a collection of brilliant startup
stories to tell your kids about the “good old days” when you worked
“Mahalo in year three!”
So, if you want to kick ass and you’re not lame write a really clever
and insightful cover letter and attach your resume to it. If you’re
too stupid to write a cover letter then we will delete your email
instantly. You would be amazed at how many folks will respond to a job
posting that requires a cover letter without one! Seriously, write a
cover letter and engage us. Sell us on why you rock!
Send *cover letter/email* and resume to apply@mahalo.com
Don’t email/tweet me directly… send your epicness to
apply@mahalo.com so the three people running traffic on this can
experience the greatness that is YOU!
Rock on, JCAL
More on the horrific Keiretsu Forum from @thefu… join the Jihad!
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This comments speaks to the value of “pay for play” nonsense like DEMO
and Keiretsu Forum.
We must killed the infidels and destroy their homeland! j
http://www.thefunded.com/funds/show/Keiretsu+Forum
We pitched last fall to this group. We subsequently raised what we
needed – but not a penny from this group. When I found out that the
group is pay-to-play, I had to make a qualified decision to ‘get
access’ to a group of investors. Part of that dilligence was
understanding more metrics about funding history, people involved,
other deals, etc….
The k4 group experience has certainly galvanized my thoughts that an
entrepreneur should NEVER pay to play and no matter what questions you
ask. The k4 model is flawed for this reason and there is no incentive
for the k4 people to be clear or honest about funding facts about
their group because it would become clear to the entrepreneur that
it’s not worth it to pay.
Case in point … when asked about history of funding deals, the k4
officials used metrics reaching back to 2001 (nothing in the last few
months from this event). When asking about recent deals – all of the
sudden, they don’t have very good metrics or tracking facilities.
These guys do qualifying pitches once a month and the actual meetings
once a month as well (for the previous month’s deals). They know
exactly what is going on – and over the last year when liquidity has
been non-existent for many angels – these guys haven’t funded
anything. The problem is that there is no incentive for them to be
honest about this – because their model is dependent on the 6k from
6-8 entrepreneurs *every month*.
After the event, when we qualified interest from the ‘Gold Sheet’, we
had over 25 inquiries. When we set up a follow on con-call meetings
for this – NOT A SINGLE PERSON showed up. After engaging with
individuals to make time for 1:1 meetings, the interest wasn’t all
that qualified (almost like someone who feels compelled to rate a
speaker survey as opposed to having qualified interest in investing).
On closer inspection and after I bugged the k4 group about this, I
learned this is common and ‘I need to just stay on them’. Having
raised angel money in the past – i appreciate the need to ‘stay on
angels to get something done’. This was above and beyond the norm. I
did a bit more research and found that the people behind the email
addresses were largely service providers.
In short, entrepreneurs are asked to pay for what is largely a social
event for angels who may not even have the capacity to invest in
anything – along with a handful of service providers who will waste
your time. The model is dependent on entrepreneurs paying the bills -
and if they were honest about the successes of qualified deals, the
deal flow would dry up and the group would no longer be relevant.
Again, we raised what we needed from other sources – but not a dime
from K4. I don’t have an axe to grind – I just feel compelled to
protect any other entrepreneur out there whose most valuable asset is
their time (and money) and tell them to save it. K4 is a waste.
Ohh – one last little gem. There was one blow-hard in the audience who
was effectively a patent troll whose approach was apparently to scour
the k4 meetings for potentially aligned tech and then threaten the
entrepreneurs with licensing conversations. After reading the guy the
riot act off-line about how dis-similar our tech is from this guys 10
year old garbage, I stopped getting calls.
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Life from the Jason's Jihad meeting…
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Jason Jihad: Keiretsu Forum Must be Stopped!
My brothers, a new evil is upon us. The evil infidels have grown strong in the recession, taking advantage of startup companies by charging them $4-6k for an eight minute presentation in front of supposed “angel investors.”
We can not stop until the Keiretsu Forum is destroyed and replaced by an honorable organization that does not charge startup companies.
Phase One of the Jihad: Collect all information you can about Keiretsu Forum.
Phase Two of the Jihad: Write a blog post about how disgusted you are by the infidels and their unholy campaign against the righteous entrepreneurs.
Phase Three of the Jihad: Will be discussed in private on This Week in Startups and within the superfan group.
Would you buy a used car from this man? Exactly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTjbWTTu0Ec
Imagine you wake up with these two on your pillow!
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http://www.calacanis.com | http://www.mahalo.com
Executive Assistant: admin@calacanis.com
I woke up with this thing on my arm!
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Executive Assistant: admin@calacanis.com
