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Recently I wrote about how having a focus on delivering quality content to your customers makes a difference.  Whether it is merchandise, video entertainment, editorial or jobs.  In that post I referred to a Polaris Venture Partners company JIBE.   I talked about how the founder Joe Essenfeld was totally dedicated on having the best job listings possible from brand …

Having spent many years in the world of cable television networks it was always clear that the networks with the best content could sign up cable operators, build an audience and earn more on a per subscriber basis.   It was not until I was part of the start-up team at QVC did I begin to understand that content not only included video entertainment …

Since joining Polaris Venture Partners over six years ago we have seen multiple business plans for companies that aspire to be the next generation monster.com or hotjobs.  There were promises of innovative technology and algorithms and unique business models.  But it was not until we met Joe Essenfeld founder of JIBE that we finally saw a product vision and business …