Bessemer Venture Partners Holds First-Ever Career Fair for Portfolio Companies; Venture Firm Helps 50 Companies Address Human Capital Shortage.Business/High-Tech Editors MENLO PARK Menlo Park. 1 Residential city (1990 pop. 28,040), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1874. Electronic equipment and aerospace products are manufactured in the city. Menlo College and a Stanford Univ. research institute are there. 2 Uninc. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 20, 2000 Nearly 50 companies will participate in Bessemer Venture Partners' first-ever career fair exclusively for Bessemer-backed companies, to be held next Wednesday, September 27th, at the Hiller Aviation Museum The Hiller Aviation Museum, located in San Carlos, California, USA at the San Carlos Airport, is an aircraft history museum. Endowed by members of the Hiller family (owners of the Hiller Aircraft Corporation, an early helicopter pioneer), this small museum specializes in Northern in San Carlos San Carlos (săn kär`lōs), residential city (1990 pop. 26,167), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1925. The chief manufactures are plastic products, hardware, and machine parts. , Calif., from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. Conceived to aid the venture firm's portfolio companies in alleviating the `human capital' shortage, the job fair is the first of its kind sponsored by a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley. More than 1,000 job-seekers in the areas of engineering, information technology, quality assurance, marketing, business development, sales, human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. and finance are expected to attend this event. Attendees will meet the hiring managers, founders and investors of leading companies in the areas of Internet infrastructure, communications, wireless, optical networking and business-to-business e-commerce. Companies participating in the Silicon Valley career fair include: Allegro Networks; AP Engines; Azanda Network Devices; BestOffer; Calmar Optcom; Collabria; Counterpane Internet Security; Crescent Networks; eALITY; ePIT; EXP; Express Action; Finjan; Genoa; Gotham Networks; icebox; ishoni Networks; Keynote Systems; LightLogic; Lightwave Microsystems; M4 Financial; Metratech; Morphics; NeoSilicon; NetGenesis; NewChannel; Optical MicroMach; Optigrab; Oresis; Perfect; Productopia; Project Austin; Qualys; Register.com; Solinet Systems; Stream Machines; Telocity; Terabeam Networks; Terawave; TriNet; Triton Networks; ValiCert; Visto; and WorldChain. "Our entrepreneurs continue to point to the lack of qualified people as the single-most limiting factor in their companies' growth, and we are committed to helping them solve this problem," said David Cowan, managing partner of Bessemer Venture Partners Bessemer Venture Partners is a private venture capital firm with offices in Silicon Valley, New York, Massachusetts, China, and India. It has backed such companies as Ciena, Flarion, Parametric Technologies, Skype, Staples, VeriSign and Veritas. . "The career fair is part of our continuing effort to provide recruiting and human resources assistance through the Bessemer Search Group, our executive recruiting subsidiary." Career fair attendees will also meet renowned information security expert, Bruce Schneier, founder of Counterpane Internet Security, Inc. Schneier will sign copies of his new book, "Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World," from 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. The first 100 attendees will receive their autographed copy of this best-seller free. The Hiller Aviation Museum is located at 601 Skyway sky·way n. 1. A route regularly used by airplanes; an air lane. 2. An elevated highway. Noun 1. skyway - a designated route followed by airplanes in flying from one airport to another Road in San Carlos, Calif. For more information and directions to the career fair, go to www.bvp.com/jobs/jobfair.htm. About Bessemer Venture Partners Bessemer Venture Partners, with offices in California, Massachusetts and New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , is the leading national, early-stage venture capital firm in communications technology and Internet infrastructure. The firm manages more than a billion dollars of venture funds, carrying on a tradition of hands-on, active venture investing venture investing The acquiring of a stake in a start-up company by a brokerage firm or analyst by obtaining discounted, pre-IPO shares. Critics claim venture investing causes analysts to have a vested interest in seeing a stock appreciate in value and so that has continued since 1911. Many of the most-trusted pioneers of the industrial Internet infrastructure, including VeriSign, Ciena, Veritas, Mindspring, PSI-Net, Keynote Systems, Register.com, Tumbleweed tumbleweed, any of several plants, particularly abundant in prairie and steppe regions, that commonly break from their roots at maturity and, drying into a rounded tangle of light, stiff branches, roll before the wind, covering long distances and scattering seed as , e-Steel, Sonus Networks, Verio, HotJobs and SciQuest, partnered with BVP during their early stages of development. For more information, visit www.bvp.com. (c)2000 Bessemer Venture Partners. All marks are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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