Movers and Shakers

Hey Everyone..

This is my first blog post in a while. I used to write a lot back in the day.. Ha, the 2005 days..

Anyways, I am trying to figure out if people even give a shit on what I write, so please leave feedback or comments if you want me to write on a subject or if I shouldnt even waste my time.

1.5 Yrs have gone by since i have started two companies.

1. www.neohire.com
2. www.resumebucket.com

NeoHire.com is the exclusive recruiting company based in so cal, which helps hire the best tech & non tech talent for today's hottest .com's that are vc backed. NeoHire is awesome, our people are awesome and we are growing to a larger space right now.

ResumeBucket.com was an idea that came to my mind after being the in the Recruiting space for the last 5 yrs. I was sick of tired of people telling me to look @ their linkedin, and people telling me they will get me their resume later at night or in a few days.. Doesnt fly, espcially when a top company has a pipeline of other candidates. ResumeBucket went live in beta last December and has been growing and doing well :-)

Both companies take a LOT of time. NeoHire has about 11-12 employees, and Resumebucket has about 6.

We are busy, heads down, and just CRUSHING away. I have a feeling that this year is the year to get shit done. The yr to make things happen. The time to plant your seeds and one will sprout.

Besides NeoHire.com, ResumeBucket.com I have a team I am putting together to work on a few other projects, which include; FareHub.com ; a Customer Behavior Targeted Marketing Program Company, and a few more.

In addition NeoHire is starting a consulting division which helps offline companies get in to the online space and helps them subsidize their offline revenue income.

So, LOTS of irons in the fire. Every business unit is growing, every business unit is Profitable or Breakeven.

This year we will focus on scaling all these different verticals. Many VC's and investors think I have too much shit going on, and they are hesitant to invest money in to one of the ideas. Understand, and totally fine, plus I am not actively looking for any financing. However, it would be nice :-) to really slingshot some of these projects faster.

The' vc's and angels are concered that I am not focused on just one business unit. I think that they don't clearly understand that these biz units tie in with eachother. EVERY single one :-)

ResumeBucket.com --- NeoHire.com (Come on, not rocket science)

Plus, They think i have to be HANDS on with everything, this is wrong. I have the contacts, the ideas and the energy. I find the right people to take over the idea / or project then continue working on it from a advisory / higher level view.

Regardless, 2009 will be a great year, lots cooking and I think we will see many flourish and many scale. We will see if some of the larger media companies / .com's can figure out how to stay alive and make money and we will see the smaller smarter technology co's continue to grow.

Anyways, Life is good. Watch out for all those social media people out there.. MAny people self proclaim themselves and socialmedia experts.

Ill tell you who the rockstars are in the space.. They arent all talk, they are real and they DO know their Shit.

KurtyD -- > @kurtyD (he is the man, connector, social dude, and he is a good guy to explore your brains with)

Sean Percivcal --> @seanpercival (This guy has a fucking great story on how he got in to this space.. Cool dude, he KNOWS SEO better than MOST anyone... So, that is his claim.. he rocks.. he will do well



Shit. There are a few more peeps... But, i have to go look @ boats with my peeps now...

Let me know if you like this kinda post and Ill try and write more...

I should put a list of people that are big time self promoter shmucks, but that would be bad.. hahaha

Hot stuff to keep your eyes on;

www.entertonement.com
www.alchemyllc.com
www.hitpath.com

Shit.. Not too much.. Some EDU plays happening.. However ill get back to you all on those..

GoodBye all

Have a great week

Josh Stomel
@joshstomel
www.linkedin.com/in/online
www.resumebucket.com/joshstomel