Announcing Dogpatch Labs San Francisco Roster
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Key to Trust is Real Identity
February 21, 2010 – 10:57 am | View Comments
Key to Trust is Real Identity

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

beRecruited.com: 7 Million Recruiting Connections in 2009
January 19, 2010 – 8:32 pm | View Comments
beRecruited.com: 7 Million Recruiting Connections in 2009

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 …

Learning from Expresso Fitness: Make the Workout Interactive & Social
December 7, 2009 – 1:40 pm | View Comments

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. …

World Record Holder Gemma Spofforth is a beRecruited.com User
July 30, 2009 – 10:35 am | View Comments
World Record Holder Gemma Spofforth is a beRecruited.com User

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 …

Recruiting Process Advice from Tallahassee.com: Try beRecruited
May 25, 2009 – 5:40 pm | View Comments

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 …

beRecruited Hits A Milestone: 500,000 Registered Users
May 16, 2009 – 9:07 am | View Comments
beRecruited Hits A Milestone: 500,000 Registered Users

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 …

beRecruited Connects $90,000 Scholarship: From Bath to Mississippi
May 14, 2009 – 10:04 pm | View Comments
beRecruited Connects $90,000 Scholarship: From Bath to Mississippi

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 …

CBS Coverage of beRecruited: ‘Gives Students Scholarship Edge’
February 27, 2009 – 6:11 pm | View Comments
CBS Coverage of beRecruited: ‘Gives Students Scholarship Edge’

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 Helps Bemidji State Football Recruiting Class
February 16, 2009 – 12:46 pm | View Comments
beRecruited Helps Bemidji State Football Recruiting Class

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 …

beRecruited Growth Continues; Rock Mountain News Coverage
February 10, 2009 – 8:38 pm | View Comments
beRecruited Growth Continues; Rock Mountain News Coverage

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 …

beRecruited Featured in Guam’s Pacific Daily News
December 27, 2008 – 10:41 pm | View Comments
beRecruited Featured in Guam’s Pacific Daily News

A few days after beRecruited’s feature in the Wall Street Journal is the below mention from Guam’s Pacific Daily News. The article profiles a local softball player – MeiLani Quintanilla – who received a scholarship …

beRecruited Featured in Today’s Wall Street Journal
December 18, 2008 – 7:19 am | View Comments
beRecruited Featured in Today’s Wall Street Journal

beRecruited is prominently featured in today’s Wall Street Journal article, “The Do-It-Yourself Scholarship“, which graces the cover of the Personal Section.
Author Matthew Futterman gives a thorough overview of collegiate sports recruiting and how the …