by Adrianne Jeffries
About 100 investors, founders and startup folk–including the guy siting next to Betabeat whose nametag read “SocialNetwork.com”–gathered last night in Microsoft’s sixth floor office, just a few doors down from Radio City Music Hall, for the ceremonious-sounding Ultra Light Startups Feedback Forum and Pitch Showdown. The room was like most that host these things: projector, rows of plastic chairs, podiums. Microsoft does not try to be edgy with the decor.
by Gregory Huang.
Today’s West Coast announcement that Oracle is buying human resources management firmTaleo for $1.9 billion—yes, billion—puts some Boston-area talent and recruiting startups in a new light. Unfortunately, one of them is no longer in Boston…
—Take the Interview, the video-based recruiting startup and former Dogpatch Labs Cambridge resident, has relocated to New York City (SoHo to be more exact). It’s not a big surprise, as the company was part of the DreamIt Ventures startup program in New York last summer. Take the Interview, led by CEO Danielle Weinblatt,raised a seed funding round last September.
