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About Me
I'm Ryan Spoon. I live in San Francisco and have spent my career on the web. I founded beRecruited.com (acquired in 2007) and spent 2003-2007 at eBay (internet marketing, social media & leading Kijiji.com). I am now at Widgetbox.com and running InGameNow on the side with a collection of friends.
Email: rspoon @ gmail.com
Twitter: @berecruited
beRecruited.com Appears on Atlanta’s 790 The Zone (WQXI)
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 | No Comments »
beRecruited's CEO Jeff Cravens joined Atlanta's 790 The Zone sports-talk show The Afternoon Saloon. Jeff discussed sports recruiting, the beRecruited service and still found time to joke with local hosts ... Read more..beRecruited Registers 200,000th User
Monday, April 28th, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 | No Comments »
Late last week, beRecruited registered it's 200,000th user - a huge milestone for the team. As we continue to build out a world-class team, beRecruited is growing both internally and ... Read more..beRecruited Teams Launches
Thursday, March 27th, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 | No Comments »
Got an exciting phone call from Jeff Cravens, beRecruited's CEO, today. We launched beRecruited Teams today - a network of athletes by geography, high school, sport and team. Some fun stats ... Read more..This is what Happens When You Hit Digg’s Homepage…
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 | No Comments »
SportsWrap had a post reach #1 on Digg's homepage... And this is the result: Read more..beRecruited Player Card Widget Launches
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 | 1 Comment »
Exciting news - beRecruited has launched an interactive widget for athletes and fans. The Player Card enables athletes to showcase their profile, stats, photos, and videos in a customizable widget ... Read more..Bootstrapping Your Startup – 12 Rules of Bootstrapping
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 | 6 Comments »
One of the memes I’ve enjoyed following this past week started with Jason Calacanis’s How to Save Money Running a Start Up article (later followed by Michael Arrington, Mark Cuban, ... Read more..beRecruited Partners with ESPN on NCAA’s National Signing Day
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008 Posted in Sports, Web 2.0 | 1 Comment »
Over the last couple years, NCAA Football's National Signing Day has become a big business. ESPN aired all-day coverage on ESPNU and ESPN2. Online, ESPN simulcast the entire broadcast ... Read more..Designing a Great Search Box - Yahoo & Chickipedia are Great
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 | 1 Comment »
The search box is often overlooked despite being such a critical launching point for the user experience. The search box shouldn't necessarily be an afterthought. Whether it is in the ... Read more..beRecruited Colleges Revamped
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 | 1 Comment »
This has been an important last few weeks for beRecruited - we hit our 2,000,000th recruiting connection, launched a couple new features and have some exciting things coming in the ... Read more..Duke Chronicle Writes About beRecruited’s Growth
Saturday, January 26th, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 | No Comments »
Yesterday, the Duke Chronicle (Duke's daily newspaper) released an article about beRecruited's growth and the 2,000,000th recruiting connection we recently passed. While the article has some inaccuracies, it was quite ... Read more..
