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Internet Winter Hits Mahalo; Cuts 10% Of Staff
TechCrunch —
In a post on his blog, Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis has announced that his human powered search engine has laid off 10% of its staff. Along with the layoffs Calacanis writes that the company will be doing some “smart things” to help cut costs - it will be outsourcing much of its editorial to freelancers instead of in-house staff. Calacanis pegs the number of full-time staff cut at around 5 or 6, but that number could change depending on how well the freelancers work out for the company.
From his blog post:
While I anticipated and ...
Mahalo feels economic pressure, lays off 10 percent of staff
Webware.com —
... , a human-powered search engine, announced today that he was forced to layoff 10 percent of his staff (about five or six people) amid a "challenging economic environment" that will require the company to cut costs. ...
Mahalo in English: Suddenly, it’s 2001
WatchMojo.com Business & Technology —
... strategy right now is simply to jump on the latest, breaking news, publish a page on it, and hope that Google’s super quick spiders index their page… It’s a gimmick, not a worthless one, but not exactly priceless either.
Mahalo’s dilemma remains the same: the more Mahalo becomes an actual content hub though, the more it strays away from its core. The more it sticks to its core, the less relevant it is over time.
From Jason Calacanis’ website:
We’ve laid off a just under 10% of our full-time staff, ...
Jason Calacanis lays off 13 at Mahalo [Layoffs]
Gawker: valleywag —
... Bulldog aficionado Jason Calacanis recently predicted that a large number of Web 2.0 startups will end up on "life support." Could Mahalo, his so-called "human-powered search engine," be one of them? He has laid off 13 of the humans who power Mahalo, with plans to rehire some of them offshore in the Philippines. It's not clear how many staff members that leaves Mahalo with. ...
Mahalo Fires Staff; Bad Economy or Bad Business Model at Fault?
CenterNetworks —
... Just back from a business trip to Europe and Asia, Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis has decided to make some cuts, firing nearly 10% of the staff and has started to rent out space to other startups. From what we understand, the rentals started earlier as Techcrunch50 finalist CauseCast has been renting space for a while. It's good to see Jason ...
Mahalo cuts 10% of workforce
The Inquisitr » Technology —
... Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis blogged (ironically given that he publicly quit blogging) that the decision was due to the economic crisis and the expected reduction in online advertising growth. ...
Startup depression brings job cuts to Mahalo
VentureBeat —
Tech entrepreneur Jason Calacanis announced today that his “people-powerd search engine” Mahalo has laid off slightly less than 10 percent its staff.
By making the cuts, Mahalo can extend its “runway” to profitability, which is necessary with the economic downturn and the resulting disappearance of ad dollars. Now the company could keep going beyond 2012 even if it doesn’t bring in any ad revenue, Calacanis writes.
Mahalo’s search results are created by employees, rather than automatically generated, ...
Mahalo now means “goodbye”
mathewingram.com/work —
... So Jason Calacanis has brought down the hammer on some employees at Mahalo, his “people-powered search” startup — and took the extraordinary step of returning to blogging momentarily to announce the news, after having made a big show of turning his back on it. In typical Jason fashion, he even included what is becoming a kind of blogosphere in-joke: The headline of his post is “Tough times; hard decisions,” a wording that Techmeme’s Gabe Rivera notes is becoming ...
Layoffs Roundup: Comcast's 300; Ticketmaster's 300; ManiaTV's 20; PermissionTV's 6; Mahalo's 10
paidContent —
... -- Mahalo: The Sequoia-funded search/directory site Mahalo has laid of about 10 percent of its U.S. staff, the company CEO Jason Calacanis announced on his blog today. He said that even though the company has enough money in the bank, it has reorganized the editorial department to focus on freelance positions over in-house editors. ...
Mahalo’s Jason Calacanis in Better Days
BoomTown —
... yesterday, Calacanis sang perfectly in tune with the new decidedly grimmer times. Thus, he announced the cuts at Mahalo, which include layoffs, with his typical showman style.
The venture was funded by–among others–Sequoia Capital and its wunderkind VC Roelof Botha.
But, after Sequoia lowered the boom on the start-ups it invested in recently, it’s no surprise they are lining up to show how well they can play “Survivor.”
Wrote Calacanis, in part:
Although we’ve got a significant amount of ...
Blogosphere Highlights 10-26-08
Bloggers Blog: Blogging the Blogsphere —
... more unique visitors per month make $75K+ (mean annual revenue). A lot of bloggers think that sounds too high - see here,
here and here. (On an unrelated note this fish is also worth $75,000.) Ars Technica also has a write-up on the State of the Blogosphere. ReadWriteWeb offers a look at how much top-tier bloggers get paid here.
Layoffs and cuts: Gawker job cuts, B5media pay cuts, AOL Blog Cuts, Heavy.com cuts, Mahalo layoffs. Know More Media closed shop in late July. There are also many layoffs ...
Startups Shed Staff While Compensating Users
Internet Evolution: —
... model share 20 percent of their revenues with Helium. In a recent interview with Internet Evolution, Ranalli said that his company wasn't profitable yet. But "the underlying model is working," he claimed, even though today the company shed 30 percent of its staff to compensate for deteriorating ad revenues. On a similar note, last week, human-powered search site Mahalo, which also rewards users for their contributions, laid off 10 percent of its staff. These were revealed in a blog by the site's founder , ...
Tech layoffs: The scorecard
Webware.com —
... 25% of 80
Imeem jumping on the layoff bandwagon
Mahalo
10/22/2008
10%
Calacanis.com: Tough times, hard decisions
HP
10/22/2008 ...
