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Bryan Starbuck

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Bryan Starbuck is the CEO of TalentSpring, a $2.7m private investor funded B2B SaaS startup.

TalentSpring allows employers to select one of their job openings and go immediately to the best active and passive resumes, with access to over 100 million resumes. TalentSpring uses semantic matching algorithms to find resumes that match all of the criteria for a specific job opening. TalentSpring ranks resumes by their quality within their industry (from unqualified to qualified to A-Player). TalentSpring believes recruiters must have powerful tools that gives them “1 click” access to the top 100 resumes nationwide that are both the best match to the open position, and the top quality candidates nationwide.

Bryan Starbuck’s former career came from managing engineering teams at Microsoft on Internet Explorer, Windows operating systems, and Windows Live. Bryan’s focus has been on utilizing data mining algorithms in mass market products to solve real world problems faced by consumers or an industry. He has worked with Microsoft Research (MSR) on several products. Bryan has 39 patents (between pending and issued).

Specific Areas of Interests:

• B2B SaaS Sales & Marketing: Managing inside sales reps, lead marketing, etc.
• Engineering: Semantic search, machine learning, data mining, neural networks, semantic latent analysis, natural language processing, clustering, regression analysis, graph theory, web crawling (Hadoop)
• Company Building: Building/growing SaaS companies, engineering, product UI design, machine learning, data mining, semantic search, online marketing, branding, enterprise sales, web services, entrepreneurship

Milestones

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  Bryan Starbuck added a position as CEO at TalentSpring.
  Posted 2/11/08 at 7:13pm

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