A VisualCV, Inc. Company Update

By Phillip Merrick, Chairman

It's been a while since I last blogged here, and a lot has been happening at the company level at VisualCV, Inc.  The biggest news is that our ownership structure has changed quite a bit.   The current financial environment is not helpful to venture-capital backed companies.  As a result, several of our original investors, founders and staff have banded together to acquire majority ownership of the company, with continuing support from our partner Heidrick and Struggles.   We are genuinely excited about this, and see it as an important enabling step for the future growth of VisualCV.

As part of our business plan, and to ensure this future growth, we are bringing forward several of our revenue generating initiatives.   As you have seen, we have begun featuring advertisements and sponsorship on some selected parts of the site.  As we have promised, you will never see ads popping up on your VisualCV -- that's part of the original commitment we made to members.

We also plan to begin offering premium paid memberships.   In this economy, we think we can start rolling out some features (complementing existing features) that really help jobseekers manage their job search and stand out in front of employers. Again, as part of our commitment we will absolutely ensure that creating, maintaining and sharing your VisualCV is free. And employers you share your VisualCV with will never have to pay to view it.

As you might expect, we're having some healthy internal discussions about what features should go in the premium version -- and what we think members would be willing to pay for.  Many of you have already volunteered your opinions about what you would value in an enhanced VisualCV offering -- and we really appreciate your thoughts.  In fact we want to broaden the discussion and let all members weigh in on what the premium paid offering should include.   To that end, we've created a short web survey for members.   We'd be grateful if you can help us by spending a few minutes on it.

Comments

[kooki]

current financial environment is not helpful that true ....But think is going to change trust me ..

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[Jim Edwards]

Congrats!

[Rob Kidd]

Phil

Sound like your doing the "start-up shuffle"

I had an opportunity to complete your survey and would be happy to talk to the product management team and/or you about my response in more detail.

So far I am very impressed with VCV. There are a few minor issues. Over all excellent.

I look forward to great things to come

Cheers

Rob

[curcuma]

Hello
I like your idea about advertisements and sponsorship on some selected parts of the site.I think this will really help you a lot.I have also checked your survey.