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Matt takes us through his 20+ year career beginning with starting BabyCenter in 1996 and why early childhood is so exciting from social impact, technological, and investing perspectives. With BabyCenter still widely used today, reaching 100M parents monthly with 8 out of 10 new mothers as online users, Matt shares his key entrepreneurial lessons learned and why he believes the company has stood the test of time. Having recently returned back to early childhood post other business ventures, Matt explains his main incentives for starting Promise Venture Studio, which catalyzes and accelerates entrepreneurial ventures driving impact at scale for children 0-5 in the U.S. and the evolution he has seen in the industry. Lastly, given the recent influx of high-profile investments made in early childhood, Matt discusses why the time is now for the industry and identifies areas of innovation in this market he’s most excited about.
Deborah Quazzo, Managing Partner and Co-Founder of GSV AcceleraTE Fund, discusses how GSV AcceleraTE makes an impact in the learning and talent sectors, as well as how to maximize your time at ASU GSV Summit 2019. Learn more in this episode of the Knowledge Leaders Podcast, hosted by Todd Hand. Get a transcript excerpt here: https://knowledgeleadersgroup.com/interview-with-deborah-quazzo-gsv/ Share this via video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JitGh9C6GD4
Psychologyjobs.com, a niche job site is seeking a new owner. Its been online for 10 years and serves mental health and behavioral health type careers. Would be a great buy for a staffing firm in this niches. Or another healthcare job business...For details visit jobboardsecrets.com and click on the For Sale category. SEATTLE, March 8, 2019 — Textio, the developer of the world’s first augmented writing platform, today announced a new partnership with the McDonald’s Corporation. Together with its Franchisees, McDonald’s receives upwards of 20 million applicants a year to support hiring nearly two million people, making them one of the most significant employers in the world. As McDonald’s is planning for their next stage of growth, they are investing in world class technologies that improve their hiring and recruiting processes at scale. Textio, a 2019 Finalist for the SxSW Innovation Awards, has been brought on board to enable McDonald’s to not only recruit and hire faster, but also to ensure they reach top-quality applicants in an inclusive manner. “At McDonald’s, our goal is to create feel good moments that ensure everyone feels welcome and included. That starts with the language we use when we reach out to you as a candidate,” said Joshua Secrest, Sr. Director of Global Talent Attraction. “Textio’s innovative augmented writing platform will give us the insights to know, in real time, whether the language we are using is attracting the most qualified and diverse candidates we can.” Textio is fueled by a massive data set of real-world hiring outcomes from hundreds of millions of job listings across industries and around the globe. Every month, this data set grows by 10 million new documents, with the latest hiring results attached to each one. The work with McDonald’s will further develop the platform’s capabilities in the hospitality and franchise industry. https://recruitingheadlines.com/mcdonalds-looks-to-innovate-recruiting-process-with-textio/ Fresh off the announcement by The Mom Project who recently raised $8 million in funding, New York City based FairyGodBoss has followed that up with a $10 Million round of their own. Funding was led by GSV Accelerate and Signal Peak Ventures. They have previously raised $3 million. The site is a self-described ‘social network for career-minded women’. It has job listings, career advice, employer profiles, and hosts a personalized daily feed in addition to a crowdsourced databases for companies’ benefits. According to the story in VentureBeat, site revenues come from writing sponsored content for clients and supplying them with competitor insights — and it has more than 3 million visitors each month. https://recruitingheadlines.com/female-focused-fairygodboss-raises-10-million/ LOS ANGELES—Cluster, the first U.S. marketplace matching Industry 4.0 skills and jobs, announced that it closed a $1.9 million seed round of financing. American industrial companies are being transformed by technology. More than 1.3 million manufacturing jobs have been added since the end of the recession. The resurgence of jobs has brought on a workforce crisis as companies struggle to fill roles. “Hiring experienced talent is the industrial sector’s most urgent priority amidst a tight labor market and a growing wave of retirements,” said CEO and Founder Kim Taylor. “We need to expand beyond the friction of resumes and job descriptions to a common language of skills.” Engineering talent is vetted to join the platform and employers pay on a subscription model to access mid-to-senior level talent looking for full-time jobs. Cluster only matches people to jobs for which they are qualified. https://recruitingheadlines.com/mark-cuban-invests-in-engineering-job-platform/ SAN FRANCISCO, March 12, 2019 — ZenSourcer, an all-in-one recruiting platform that provides a single source of truth for talent teams, today announces a $9M Series A funding round from Accel and the business’ rebrand to Gem. Gem is also launching a CRM (Candidate Relationship Management) platform, which helps companies track and nurture relationships with talent. “As hiring managers at Dropbox and Facebook, we connected with a lot of amazing candidates, but for many of them the timing wasn’t right,” said Steve Bartel, co-founder and CEO of Gem. “We didn’t want to give up on those conversations so we created lists of Gems and invested in long-term relationships with our ideal candidates.” “We built Gem to give recruiting professionals the candidate relationship management (CRM) tool they need to build relationships and nurture their talent pools at scale,” said Nick Bushak, co-founder and CTO of Gem. “For us it was a no brainer to deliver the marketing automation and relationship management power that sales and marketing teams have to recruiters.” https://recruitingheadlines.com/sourcing-tool-gets-9m-in-series-a-funding/
Fireside Chat from the GSV Leaders Summit with Joseph Aoun, President, Northeastern University and Julia Stiglitz, Partner, GSV AcceleraTE.
Julia Stiglitz hosts Rebecca Taber, the CEO and cofounder of Merit America, to discuss their work enabling scaled education-to-employment pathways. Merit America is building a new talent stream from low-skill to upwardly mobile careers through targeted education, coaching, and mentorship to fill employers' high demand roles.
Julia Stiglitz speaks with Ashu Desai, the cofounder of Make School, a product-focused, accredited program that is providing a bachelor’s degree in computer science and challenging the status quo in higher education. You can also see Ashu at the upcoming ASU GSV summit in San Diego April 8th through the 10th .
This month, Babbel CEO Markus Witte joined GSV AcceleraTE Founder and Managing Partner Deborah Quazzo to discuss his entrepreneurial Journey, Babbel’s strong performance in the US market led by Julie Hansen, his views of emerging technologies, and the secrets to the global success of Babbel.
Host Laura Zarrow talks with Deborah Quazzo, Managing Partner of GSV AcceleraTE, about developing women run businesses. Deborah speaks about bringing together female founders, funders, advocates, influencers, and emerging talent who are creating platforms to elevate others.She also shares her own experiences navigating the gender barriers in the venture capital world.Deborah Quazzo is the Managing Partner of GSV AcceleraTE, a venture capital fund that invests in the education and talent technology sector. Deborah is also the Co-founder and Managing Partner of the ASU+GSV Summit, an event that celebrates innovations and innovators across the global “preK to Gray” learning and talent landscape and attracts over 4,000 attendees.Originally aired with Host Laura Zarrow on October 24, 2018 on SiriusXM's Business Radio Powered by The Wharton School, Channel 132 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.