Jennie Starr, JD, MA

Columns and Blogs

Searcher Magazine

These columns profiled technology startups. I interviewed company CEO and CTO’s and included a survey of competition. Some of these startups fizzled, while others like indeed.com, were sold for over $1 billion. Incredibly, others, like Pandora, are now acquiring industry players themselves.  Read Columns

The New Search in Job Search. Interview with Paul Forster CEO of Indeed and Peter Weck CTO of Simply Hired (Indeed was acquired for $1.5 billion)

Pandora: Finding New Music When You Have No Time to Hit the Club. Interview with Tim Westergren Founder of Pandora (Pandora raised $480M from SiriusXM in 2017)

eJewishPhilanthropy and Times of Israel

I blog on philanthropy topics at eJewishPhilanthropy which showcases emerging grassroots activists and community builders. I also write about community in my blog at Times of Israel a Jerusalem-based online newspaper that documents developments in Israel, the Middle East and around the Jewish world.

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