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 "startups are like bands" analogy actually implies a different, more interesting model: what about a startup incubator for bands?
Pick the most promising unsigned bands out of a set of applicants, and give them access to smart folks who have experience with being successful in the music industry along with other promising bands?
Bands don't IPO or get bought out, but a deal for percentage of revenue might still be viable, sort of like a manager/agent contract. I have no idea what the potential upside of a successful band is, so I don't have a clue whether the numbers add up to make the financial aspects of this work the way an incubator does, but it seems like it's worth exploring.
The band would still be in charge of their destiny, unlike with a major label or some more onerous types of management contracts. They would just have a access to a lot of insight and help toward achieving that destiny.
