I’m on my way to Ithaca, NY today for the Entrepreneurship@Cornell Celebration (e-mail me at willy@onedayonejob.com if you’re a Cornell student who wants to meet up). I’ve never been before, but I’m really excited to get more involved with my alma mater’s entrepreneurship community. I’m looking forward to meeting new people and catching up with old friends, and if all goes as planned I’ll be exchanging a lot of contact information with people. This usually means exchanging business cards, which inevitably end up in a pile in my apartment. There’s a much better way to swap contact info, and I even have the app loaded on my iPhone (though I must admit that I rarely use it). It’s called Bump and it’s produced by Bump Technologies in Mountain View, CA. Their app is as simple as their name–all you have to do is open the app, bump your phones (softly so as not to damage them), and you’ll have traded info.

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I really like Bump’s story. As they put it, there’s “a major problem with mobile phones: as powerful as they have become, they are still pretty useless for interacting in the real world, with real people, places, and things.” They set out to change that, and they have. I’m still not quite clear on what Bump’s business model is, but they’ve already built a product that millions of people use, and that’s a great start. Judging from the postings on their Jobs page, Bump is still extremely focused on improving their product. There aren’t really any businessy positions, but there are plenty of techie ones. These include Interaction Designer, Visual Designer, Algorithms Engineer, Android Developer, BlackBerry Developer, iOS Expert, Mobile Web Developer, Growth Analytics Engineer, and User Engagement Hacker. Bump looks like an amazing place to work, so be sure to check out all of their positions.

Links to Help You Begin Your Research

• Bu.mp
• Jobs at Bump Technologies
• About Bump Technologies
• Bump Technologies’ Team
• Bump Technologies in the News
• Bump Blog

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