Glassdoor.com is Live!

Hello Everyone, glassdoor.com is alive, we’re getting a lot of press, and we are overwhelmed with site traffic and content.  Check out the press summary below.  While all of that is great, one thing that makes even more press is talk.  We need to get our friends and family talking about Glassdoor – and just as important, we can finally talk about the product w/o having to worry about blowing the big secret.  So I would encourage everyone to take a few minutes to send out a mass email to their friends and family letting them know the BIG day has arrived.

 

If you’re not one for words, we’ve drafted a sample email w/ some of our key messages – but I always find it’s best if it’s personalized by you.  I’d also suggest that if you have a Facebook or LinkedIn profile that you update it w/ news that we’ve launched.  We also have a Facebook fan page to join and I’m sure we’ll have other ideas to get the word out. 

 

- T

 

Tim Besse | Founder, VP, Product & Marketing| Glassdoor.com

3 Harbor Dr, Suite 101 | Sausalito | CA | 94965

P: 415.339.9105 x 602 | F: 415.236.6475 | tim@glassdoor.com

www.glassdoor.com

 

 

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The BIG day has finally arrived - today we launched the Glassdoor.com beta!  And after months of hard work, we are finally able to talk about why we’re so excited about this product. 

 

So what is it?  Glassdoor.com is opening the doors to companies everywhere by allowing anyone to find and anonymously share real-time reviews, ratings and salary details about specific jobs for specific employers — all for free.  What sets us apart is that all our information comes from the people who know these companies best – employees.  Think of it as the Yelp or TripAdvisor for planning your career. 

 

The service is free, but we’ve launched with what we’re calling our “give-to-get” model.  This means to access all the employee reviews and salaries of the community, you must first share an anonymous review or salary of your own.  To give you a preview of the value in this transparency, we’re offering sneak peeks for four technology companies in the SF Bay Area (Cisco Systems, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo!) where you can see all reviews and salaries before contributing.

 

Anyway, I hope you’ll check it out, give us your feedback, and tell your friends.  We’re going to have a great time with this product and I hope you’ll be right there with us.

 

 

If you have a few minutes, Here is what the press has to say:

 

1.     BusinessWeek

Tech BeatGlassdoor.com:TripAdvisor for the Workplace

http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2008/06/_the_reviews_ar.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting

 

2.     CIO UK

CIO News View: Glassdoor.com - a clear view for the terminally nosey

http://www.cio.co.uk/concern/people/news/index.cfm?articleid=2890&pagtype=allchantopdate

 

3.     CondeNast Portfolio.com: Tech Observer

Glassdoor: Like a TripAdvisor About Companies

http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/the-tech-observer/2008/06/11/glassdoor-like-a-tripadvisor-about-companies

 

4.       Leaving the Flock Blog
Glassdoor’s Conundrum : Making Clear the Ad Revenue Model Challenge

http://jeremiahsjamison.wordpress.com/2008/06/11/glassdoors-conundrum-making-clear-the-ad-revenue-model-challenge/

 

5.     Personal Insights on Web 2.0, Blogging, and Business

Glassdoor Launches (and it’s really cool)

http://www.drewmeyersinsights.com/2008/06/11/glassdoor-launches-and-its-really-cool/

 

6.     San Francisco Chronicle

Site lets workers discuss employers, salaries

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/10/BUBL114329.DTL

 

7.     Seattle Post Intelligencer: John Cook's Venture Blog

Glassdoor peeks into salaries at Google, Microsoft, others

http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/venture/archives/140874.asp

 

8.     STARTUP CHATTER: StartupAlpha.com Magazine By and For Technology Entrepreneurs

Why Glassdoor.com is Scarier Than Wikipedia

http://startupalpha.com/chatter/2008/06/11/why-glassdoorcom-is-scarier-than-wikipedia/

 

9.     StartupMeme.com
Learn what employees say at Glassdoor.com

http://startupmeme.com/2008/06/11/learn-what-employees-say-at-glassdoorcom/

 

10.   TechCrunch.com

At Glassdoor, Find Out How Much People Really Make At Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, And Everywhere Else

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/10/at-glassdoor-find-out-how-much-people-really-make-at-google-microsoft-yahoo-and-everywhere-else/

 

11.   TheDeal.com

Glassdoor offers window onto salaries, workplaces

http://www.thedeal.com/techconfidential/vc-ratings/vc-ratings/glassdoorcom-offers-transparen.php

 

12.   TheInquistr.com

Stealth Startup Glassdoor.com Launches: Employment Conditions

http://www.inquisitr.com/stealth-startup-glassdoor-launches-employment-conditions

 

13.   Velochallenge.com

Through the Looking Glass

http://www.velochallenge.com/blog/2008/06/10/looking_glass/

 

14.   Wall Street Journal

What Do You Make? Job Site Promises Peek at Salaries

http://online.wsj.com/article_print/SB121315050927063249.html

 

15.   Web Strategy by Jeremiah
Dangers and Opportunities of the Crowdsourced Company
http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2008/06/11/dangers-and-opportunities-of-the-crowdsourced-company/

 

16.   Wired Blog Network: Epicenter

Glassdoor: A Place for Employees to Review the Employer

http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/06/finally-a-place.html

 

17.   Workhound Job Search Engine Blog

Looking through Glassdoor Darkly

http://blog.workhound.co.uk/2008/06/11/glassdoor/

 

18.   Yahoo! Finance

Ever Wonder What the Guy in the Next Cube Makes?

http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/26678/Ever-Wonder-What-the-Guy-in-the-Next-Cube-Makes?tickers=EXPE,YHOO,CSCO,MSFT,GOOG

 

19.   ZDNet

See your potential future salaries

http://blogs.zdnet.com/igeneration/?p=194

 

 

 

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