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Web Madness Tournament – Round One
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March Madness has hit the entire country and although there is the BIG Dance, there are many other dances taking place these days including one within our very own web/software marketplace. Working in the high profile world of web companies, we’re seeing the market swing on a quarterly basis with last years high-fliers beginning to plateau (Slide, Yelp, Ning), landmark companies going radio silent (Microsoft, Google) and new Cinderellas emerging on a daily basis (too many to mention – call us we’ll tell you).
We thought now couldn’t be a better time to let people duke it out and decide who is the hottest company to be working for in 2009. So we put together our own BIG Dance comprised of 16 web/software companies all vying for the top talent and overall market dominance. And we’re going to give you our opinions and let you decide the winner of our very own Web Madness Tourney.
Voting for this round will go until Friday March 27th at 5pm – results will be posted Monday March 30th
2009 Predictions for the Software Market
At the beginning of each year the BINC team gets together and creates a list of predictions for the year to come. It was interesting to see how many of our 2008 predictions actually came true. Here are our predictions for 2009; it will be intriguing to see how many of these actually prove to be true:
Mel Condos
1. Sales people will be in high demand
2. Wii games will proliferate the market
3. Top engineers and PM’s will always be in demand
4. Mobile and remote working apps will grow
5. VOIP will grow
Grant Neckermann
1. Yahoo sells in chunks
2. AOL returns to consumer spotlight
3. Wii gets 1st major competitor
4. Venture Funding Falls 60%
5. No major IPO’s in web
Eli Arzhevskiy
1. THQ will be bought
2. Activision will continue to dominate
3. EA will start to make a come back
4. National Gaming will be a good practice
5. My market will dominate yours… 
Boris Epstein
1. Microsoft will buy Facebook
2. Yahoo will reemerge as market player
3. Enterprise 2.0 and mobile will dominate
4. Facebook will figure out how to make money
Iditta Yuchourellu
1. Web 3.0 will take over web 2.0
2. Many new start ups with launch
3. Many of those will fail after launch
4. Yahoo will do extremely well compared to 2008
Tawny Labrum
1. Social Networks like Twitter will be the #1 source for news
2. Steve Jobs will retire due to sickness
3. Techcrunch will go under
4. Cell phone applications will be the hottest thing in the industry
5. Amazon Kindle will flop
Georgina Paolino
1. Enterprise 2.0 will be bigger than web
2. Apple will come out with a touch screen monitor
3. Yahoo will get bought out
4. Vista will be replaced by Windows 7
5. Google will buy Facebook
Brian Harold
1. Two larger social networks will merge (possibly Twitter/Facebook, etc)
2. Mobile gaming will become a big deal for a much wider audience.
3. A company will find a way to successfully appeal to the population with an Internet/TV combination of some kind.
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10 Hot Girl/Web Company Comparisons
Candidates and Clients are always asking us; who’s the hottest company in the marketplace, what companies are on the rise and on the decline, how are certain companies perceived in the eyes of the marketplace and other such questions surrounding the “who’s hot” leader board of the web world. We have strong opinions to all of these questions and often debate this not only with our clients and candidates, but amongst ourselves as well.
Truth be told, I can’t remember how or why we started comparing top web companies to top female celebrities (I kind of wish I had a better story for this). I think it started as an inside joke between my brother and I when we would actually get into some pretty heated debates over which web company and celebrity is hotter in the public eye and who’s best matched up together. And then when other people heard our debates, more fuel would be added to the fire and it all pretty much spiraled down hill from there. So after months of random debate and no clear resolution, I did what any good manager would do in this situation. I held an official meeting (after hours of course), bought some booze to foster the flow of creativity, turned off the phones and I refused to let anybody leave the room until the perfect matches were decided on once and for all.
So after a ton of laughs, a few too many drinks, some very heated arguments and a near office wrestling match , we finally came up with our official comparison of the top web companies to the top female celebrities (watch out Maxim). We hope you have as much fun reading our comparisons as we had coming up with them. Just one caveat, please don’t take them too seriously – we definitely don’t. And if we missed a good comparison or you can think of a better one than we came up with, please let us know – we’ll post all comments and ideas. Enjoy!!!
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Apple and Madonna Both cultural icons that have been around over 25 years, and are still innovative, creative, and cult like trendsetters |
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Google and Angelina Jolie
Arguably the hottest and most wanted web company and actress on the face of this planet. Yes there are up and comers that have the potential to decrown them, like Facebook or Megan Fox, but neither have shown the staying power to be handed the crown….just yet |
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Facebook and Miley Cyrus
Hot, cute, funny, sweet and everyone still likes her… for now |
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Techcrunch and Tila Tequilla Came out of nowhere and now everyone wants to be on them |
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Yahoo and Britney Spears
We had to do it. Was anyone hotter in the late 90’s????? And now…brand names turned punch lines, the verdict is still out on whether either has a comeback left in them |
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Twitter and Lindsay Lohan Crashes waaaaaaaaay too much!! |
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Myspace and Paris Hilton
Does anyone else get the feeling that MySpace will do anything for that extra dollar |
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Digg and Scarlett Johanson Both are incredibly hot, are well respected fixtures in the hearts of others and have the staying power to be around for a long time to come |
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Ning/Slide and Jennifer Lopez
All have huge backing (We couldn’t resist) |
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Wikipedia and Natalie Portman Smart, beautiful and out to help the world! Go Ahead…think of something negative to say about either of them. I DARE YOU! |
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