<story><title>Want to Spam Your LinkedIn Contacts and Be Humiliated? Try FounderDating</title><url>http://ilikestuffblog.com/2013/04/26/do-you-want-to-spam-your-linkedin-contacts-and-be-humiliated-try-founderdating/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jayp</author><text>The name sounded familiar. This company is a bit spammy anyway.&lt;p&gt;I am part of the Silicon Valley Java User Groups meetup. I got this e-mail from one of their employee in early March:&lt;p&gt;====&lt;p&gt;Hey fellow Dev&apos;s,&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m a ux designer who just joined the community and I wanted to share info about a great service that seems super relevant for this crew - FounderDating (no, it&apos;s not romantic). FounderDating (FD) is an invite-only, online network for entrepreneurs to connect with cofounders. Why FD?&lt;p&gt;High Quality - members are carefully screened for quality and readiness (no recruiters, etc.) Applications and members’ identities are confidential, but a few of the folks who are part of the network are former founders or early employees from: stackmob, Salesforce, Zynga, Loggly and Gilt just to name a few.&lt;p&gt;Balanced - 50% engineering &amp;#38; 50% non-engineering&lt;p&gt;Reach- FD’s online network allows you to connect with people in your city and beyond to share ideas and begin building something you’re passionate about.&lt;p&gt;No Idea Necessary - FD is about the people, so you don’t need to have an idea, just be ready to work on a serious side project&lt;p&gt;The deadline is April 8th, so apply now. &lt;a href=&quot;http://members.founder[redacted].com/application&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://members.founder[redacted].com/application&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cheers and feel free to reach out to me off-list with questions,
Abby&lt;p&gt;===&lt;p&gt;BTW, this is &quot;Abby&apos;s&quot; meetup page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.meetup.com/sv-jug/members/8035133/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.meetup.com/sv-jug/members/8035133/&lt;/a&gt;. Not sure if she also goes by another name (Gail) or what. Let&apos;s give her the benefit of doubt.&lt;p&gt;Who joins a new meetup and right away sends plugs for their own project? At least, I don&apos;t think that&apos;s the norm.</text></comment>
<story><title>Want to Spam Your LinkedIn Contacts and Be Humiliated? Try FounderDating</title><url>http://ilikestuffblog.com/2013/04/26/do-you-want-to-spam-your-linkedin-contacts-and-be-humiliated-try-founderdating/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jmalter</author><text>Actually, I&apos;m the CEO of FOunerDating and what&apos;s surprising is that no one has actually asked if this is what really happens.  We not only state (in white writing) on black backgroud) that &quot;a message will be sent to your chosen linkedin contact) and let you see the message but it&apos;s also completely opt-in - no tricks where you can&apos;t find the &quot;x&quot;.  People can choose to a) not send or choose who they send a message to. There is nothing sneaky about it. If someone doesn&apos;t read the line &quot;this will send a message&quot; there isn&apos;t much we can do about that.</text></comment>