Forbes spotlighted LegalZoom earlier in the week: “Silicon Valley Sees Gold In Internet Legal Services” (a Polaris Ventures backed company).

I am both excited and proud to announce that beRecruited (the sports recruiting network I founded way back in 2000) has acquired Fanvibe (a former Dogpatch Labs and YCombinator company).

The article “Can You Trust a Facebook Profile?” describes the “surprising truth” that “Overall people were remarkably honest in representing themselves”:

beRecruited.com had a terrific 2009 – as a recruiting platform, an athletic network and a business (covered in the Sports Business Daily here).
During 2009, the beRecruited platform drove nearly 7,000,000 recruiting connections between …

As an athlete and sports-enthusiast, I am disappointed by the news that Expresso Fitness is “turning out the lights” (according to the Wall Street Journal). Expresso makes interactive, web-connected stationary bikes for high end gyms. …

This week, as world records crumble at swimming’s World Championships in Rome, Gemma Spofforth took home a gold medal and a world record in the 100 meter backstroke (today she is competing in the 200 …

beRecruited had another great press mention – this time by Tallahssee.com’s Corey Clark in “Athletes offer tips on the recruiting process.”
It is a thorough, encouraging article about the proactive role that athletes and their …

This past Tuesday, beRecruited.com reached a major milestone: we registered our 500,000th user – representing 3x growth in the last year. beRecruited now has:
- more than 450,000 are student-athletes
- over 16,000 college coaches and …

The best advice I can give to entrepreneurs: create value. If your tool, service or product creates value for its users, it will be successful.
It might not be instantaneous. It might take time to …

beRecruited has had some great press coverage over the last few weeks – in part because of our growth, in part because of recruiting season and in part because of the struggling economy (which puts …

beRecruited continues to have great press. Today’s Bemidji Pioneer and Post-Bulletin describes how beRecruited helped the Bemidji State’s football program recruit players from across the nation:

In this Feb. 4 photo, Bemidji State head football coach …

It’s been a great couple months for beRecruited. By all measures, traffic and site-usage are ramping very nicely (more than doubling in the last calendar year).

Perhaps more importantly though, our recruiting metrics are growing …