Young Entrepreneurs - Alumwire
December 11th, 2006 by digerati
From Business Week.
Aaron and Allan Sahagun
Alumwire
www.alumwire.com
San Francisco
Ages: 22 and 19
Brothers Aaron and Allan Sahagun didn’t set out to build another Facebook when they launched their social networking Web site Alumwire earlier this year. Instead, they created a site that addressed the challenge they were facing in their own lives: the transition from college to the job market. Alumwire aggregates job listings from classifieds partner Careerbuilder.com, and articles pertinent to the graduate set from news partner Dow Jones. In about a month, new features will be added that will give users the option of importing user profiles from Facebook.
So far, members-only Alumwire is available to students at more than 1,000 four-year universities but only has about 2,000 total users. While the brothers still focus most of their marketing efforts on the San Francisco and Boston areas—Aaron is a UC-Berkeley graduate and Allan is a Harvard undergraduate—2007 will see Alumwire expanding to several new markets. Aaron is working with the University of California’s office of the president to expand its reach to even more UC campuses, and Allan is working with two British companies to market the site to students and graduates there as well as in Germany and Australia.
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