Yahoo!_Kickstart

Yahoo! Kickstart

Yahoo! Kickstart

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Yahoo! Kickstart was a professional network created by Yahoo! for college students, recent graduates, employers and alumni.[1] The service was similar to LinkedIn, initially aimed at connecting students and alumni of the same university professionally, with recruiters joining later in the network's inception. Yahoo! offered a $25,000 prize to whichever college or university that got the greatest number of alumni to sign up before December 31, 2007.[1] Kickstart's "Preview" (beta) was launched on November 5, 2007 by Yahoo!'s Advanced Products team, based in San Francisco. Yahoo closed down the network in 2008, amidst reports of server downtime and error messages.[2] Users were redirected to Yahoo! HotJobs as an alternative for jobseekers.

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  1. [1]
    Arrington, Michael (4 November 2007). "Yahoo Launches Kickstart, A New Social Network Around College Students and Alumni". Tech Crunch. Retrieved 22 May 2013.
  2. [2]
    Wauters, Robin (17 December 2008). "Another one Bites The Dust: Yahoo Shutters Kickstart". Tech Crunch. Retrieved 22 May 2013.


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