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This post is pretty peppy:

Lymabean is a social networking-ish website for college students. The best way to get a feel for what we’re doing is to watch the demo video we’ve put up. It’s at: http://beta.lymabean.com - and if you’re a student, you can sign up and try it out.

We’re looking for a talented marketing student with some guts. Working in a startup means you get to do a lot of different things, and your ideas can help build the company. The site is brand new – launching with the start of the fall semester – so it’s a pretty sweet time to get in on the action.

Interns will be directly involved with the large-scale launch, including planning and running the launch at your particular school. It’ll help if you’re outgoing and fearless, since our goal is to get out into the public eye. We’ll also be finishing and refining the Lymabean site itself, so we’re looking for someone with experience in Facebook, MySpace, etc., and opinions about how to improve on them.

The biggest thing we’re looking for, though, is ideas for rolling out Lymabean to campuses everywhere – viral-style, guerilla-style, internet-style, whatever new and cool ways we can spread the Bean love. You’ll report directly to the CEO, and your ideas will actually be used (as long as they don’t suck).

We’re in California, and you’re probably not, but that’s cool. We’re looking to get talented people from anywhere – so if you’re graduating and can come out here, or will be spending some time out here for any reason, let us know. We’re not terribly rigid. Plus, our office is literally minutes from the beach. It’s a good place to end up.

Hours are very flexible, and we have a very relaxed and fun office – and we get a lot done because of it. We’re bringing in interns to get new, fresh ideas, and because the company is growing faster than we’re able to keep up with it. What we need most is people who can capture the vision of the Bean, and run with it.

Contact:

Jeff Wurtz, Lymabean CEO

jwurtz@lymabean.com

(714) 856-2762

Interns can be an asset to a company. I have spidey senses telling me that this startup is a dog project that isn’t attracting any money and that they NEED interns if they want to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Or they could be pedophiles. You have to watch out for that in startups.

Ok, so I am being a bit harsh. I checked out the enterprise and it seems to be a going concern. Could it be possible that there are enough anti-facebook university students to make this model profitable?

I was able to find an article stating that founder Jeff Wurtz was ‘closing in’ on some seven figure angel investment. Captain TechCrunch stopped short of calling it dead in the water when he reviewed it back in February. That may be because it is not in the water yet (still in beta) or he may have been PAID to say it looked pretty.

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