Greetings Assetizers!

We’re excited to announce two updates to our site:

1) You can now request accounts that aren’t already listed on Assetize – either directly from our homepage or following a search. We act as your broker in contacting the owner, and you still benefit from our escrow services to guarantee safe transfers.

A special thanks to all the users who suggested this in our Feedback Forum!

2) In the most obvious of changes, we’ve got a new UI! If you don’t remember what we used to look like, here are Before and After screenshots:

Before

After

Talk soon,
Saif

… To Assemble a Chair? Answer: 3

We are happy to announce that Assetize has hired three new interns!

John, Valentin and Samir (L to R) joined us this week, and have already started cranking away on our current site. Pretty soon, they will be working on our top-secret project as well.

Thanks to all who applied, and keep checking our blog. We plan to make some more hires come September.

Talk soon,

Saif

Photo credit: Mike’s brand new BlackBerry Bold

Rockstar Developer

Launch fast? Check.

TechCrunch and NYT coverage? Check.

Keep getting better? Check… but we can always move faster.

That’s where you come in.  Assetize is looking for a Rockstar Web Development Intern to work with them over the next 2 months and build out some really cool features.  Stealing a page from many other startups’ playbooks, the salary is zero (which, coincidentally, matches our salary!). You do, however, get the following:

* Awesome experience working for a startup. You can even put “Rockstar” as the job title in your resume
* Exposure to other brilliant minds – we share our office space (at Yonge & King in Toronto) with many other startups and a VC firm
* Participate in weekly mentoring sessions by industry experts in technology, funding, legal, PR, marketing and HR
* Meet a who’s who of experts at our weekly socials
* First dibs on paid internship and full-time opportunities in the future

Here’s what you need to qualify:

* Your own laptop
* Experience in web development; CakePHP and Web Design skills are a plus
* A drive to change the world (that’s why we’re here)

If you don’t have all of the above, drop us a line anyway.  We can try and figure something out.

This is the most fun we’ve ever had working, and we’re sure you will feel the same way – especially if you’ve always thought about starting something of your own and want to live the entrepreneur life for a few weeks.

If this sounds like your type of thing, email us at saif [at] assetize dot com.  As a start, also tell us what 2-3 features you think Assetize should add to its current site. Remember: our goal is to help people make money off their social (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) accounts.

Talk soon,
Saif