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> ...buried in thousands of pages of stale forums. Now this, my friends, is one of the major problems of stackoverflow today!
Unfortunately, Tech Crunch labels Stack Exchange as a 'forum'. It's not. A Forum is for hanging out and sharing. It may have information you need, it may not. You will spend a lot of time scrolling through useless material finding it. Or even worse: http://xkcd.com/979/ Stack Exchange will not waste your time. You have a much higher chance to find the answer you're looking for. In short, while Forums and Stack Exchan…
I found this very interesting. Stack Exchange is an insanely useful service, but I struggled to figure out how they would monetize it. (Similar to Wikipedia) They're received enough money that exit valuation expectations are high. I guess the cash flow projections from these are enough.
One interesting nugget: more than half of the 200+ employees at Stack Exchange are working on StackOverflow Careers. Has anyone used SO Careers? Opinions?
1 - It generates 2/3 of the money.
2 - It probably requires the most handholding from Sales and Customer Support. There's only so much scaling they can do.
One interesting nugget: more than half of the 200+ employees at Stack Exchange are working on StackOverflow Careers. Has anyone used SO Careers? Opinions?
I posted a decent programming job in a decent market on there about a year ago, but didn't get any qualified applicants.
Both have massive potential audience, but both don't deliver engagement and effectively eat your budget.
Facebook isn't largely effective (in part) because the audience isn't there to be advertised to, their busy socializing with friends/family. Stack Exchange isn't effective as a Job Bulletin because the audience isn't there to find a job (they probably already have one), they're there to get assistance for a problem.
Stack Exchange should spinoff a teaching/bootcamp division to tap the education market.
One interesting nugget: more than half of the 200+ employees at Stack Exchange are working on StackOverflow Careers. Has anyone used SO Careers? Opinions?
I would guess most of those employees will be in sales / account management where the job would be to develop relationships with businesses to post jobs on StackOverflow. For example, look here [1]. [1] https://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?nl=1&k=Job...
I often ask a question on Google, get taken to a Stack Exchange site, and find that yes, they have my question, but some moderator closed it before it got answered. SE got my traffic, but I didn't get my answer. Isn't that broken?