The Making Of Monster.com (By A DJ Entrepreneur) – with Jeffrey Taylor
Have you ever had an idea that you considered revolutionary but the rest of the world was blah about?
Jeffrey Taylor’s big idea came to him at 4:30 AM and he was so moved by it that he rushed to a coffee shop to flesh it out. His idea became Monster.com, the largest job search engine in the world. This is the story of how an entrepreneur can execute on a vision, even when his supporters and other businesspeople just don’t get it.
Today Jeff is a DJ (you can see him on Facebook). He also runs Eons.com, a social network for baby boomers, Tributes.com, a destination for national and local obituary news, and Deep Snow, an incubator that wants to prove that startups could flourish in Boston.
Jeffrey C. Taylor
Monster.com
Jeffrey C. Taylor was the founder of Monster.com. His “monster idea,” conceived at the dawn of the World Wide Web, quickly became one of the first dot-com companies (454th registered domain on the Web) and has since become the world’s leading online career site.
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