Mfarhanonline Social Media News: After being turned down from the NYC Startup Job Fair in an email on Monday, Mojiva co-founder Dan Goikhman noticed that about 80 other companies had been mistakenly cc’d, rather than bcc’d, on the same message. He half-jokingly typed a suggestion to those 80 companies they they should band together to form their own job fair. Then he left his desk to go to lunch. “When I came back I found 150 emails and a website,” Goikhman says. In true entrepreneurial fashion, the 80 startups that were turned away from the NYC Startup Job Fair combined their resources to lay the foundation for their own job fair. Various startup founders have contributed logo mockups, press and PR contacts, a Twitter account and a sign-up website for the effort. NYU-Poly’s Varrick St. Incubator offered meeting space for further organizing, and both NYU and Pace University have offered to rent the job fair event space at low rates, says The Hotlist co-founder Gianni Martire, who helped organize the meeting at the incubator. The group’s sign-up site launched with the somewhat bitter title “The New York City Unfair,” but it has since evolved to “The Silicon Alley Job Fair.” The participating startup founders I spoke with also seemed less bitter and more optimistic about what the impromptu job fair says about the startup scene in New York City. “I didn’t realize how active all the startups in New York really were, and how much they all have to offer — even if they’re small, everyone has something to bring to the table,” Martire says. “It makes me happy that I didn’t move to California.” Alex Horn, the author of the cc/bcc mistake, feels the same way about the spin-off job fair. Horn started the NYC Startup Job Fair after he graduated from Columbia in 2009! and rea lized that startup jobs weren’t visible to students. The first fair he organized in 2010 drew applications from about 60 startups. This year, the number doubled. Horn could only accept 40 of the 120 applications he received because the space offered by his sponsor, AOL, is limited. About 800 job seekers have already signed up to attend. “I wanted to help bring everybody together — great startups and students who didn’t want to go into banking or be a doctor,” Horn says about founding the original fair. Student attendees, he hopes, will “become passionate about something and choose a different path.” By inadvertently launching two job fairs rather than one, Horn may have come closer to accomplishing this feat than he expected. More About: job fair , new york city startup job fair , startup For more Startups coverage: Follow Mfarhanonline Startups on Twitter Become a Fan on Facebook Subscribe to the Startups channel Download our free apps for Android , Mac , iPhone and iPad Social Media reviews series maintain by Mayya
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