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...eBay human auctioneers, John Kinsella, recently started an online jobs venture, bid4geeks.com where techie teams can gauge how much they're worth. Meanwhile, eLance, a Jersey City, N.J., startup founded by two Wall Streeters, will soon launch a different sort of auction, where firms will be able to post projects--white-collar tasks like Web design, consulting and marketing--and solicit bids on them. Another player, Freeagent.com is set to offer a similar service...
...five days--an accepted bid sets the stage to close the deal. "It gives you a starting point," says David Braverman, of Woodmere, New York, who runs a marketing agency and, after a week on the site, is putting final touches on a project with a Web retailing startup...
ENTREPRENEURS 'R' US Searching for seed capital? Go to www.umbrellaproject.com and submit your business plan online. Five recent Ivy League grads, whose own biotech startup went public this year, founded the site to help other young entrepreneurs get off the ground. Money comes from a fund the founders manage. One venture that got cash is aggressively marketing a natural compound to the cosmetics industry. But rejects are more plentiful. Among them: ideas for antihangover pills and designer galoshes, not to mention a state-prison employee trying to sell his package of retirement benefits...
Many at Harvard would bristle at such a suggestion though, because we believe that universities are special places, where new, tentative, and outrageous ideas and activities should be given additional support and cultivation. As a matter of fact, it seems that small, startup projects are the greatest beneficiaries of the Undergraduate Council's grants process. Most students probably wouldn't want to eliminate their termbill activities fee and replace it with a market system because we believe that the dynamism of student life--even if it is some what artificial--significantly enriches our experience, and we seem to think that...
...announcement last week by the Pasadena, Calif., startup Free-PC that it would give away 10,000 Compaq Presarios has brought in more than 750,000 volunteers. What's the catch? Winners of the 333-MHz machines with Internet access must first agree to watch a stream of onscreen ads whenever they use the computer...