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Currently founder of fabulis.  chief product officer at xing.com, founder of socialmedian, founder of Jobster, advisor and investor in some really cool startups, and a guy who is always learning.

Jason loves working with entrepreneurs and early stage companies and is a passionate believer that it all comes down to the product.

Currently involved with:  Fabulis.  TweetDeck.  onething.  blogged.  and a few other startups not ready be named yet.</description><title>betashop</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @betashop)</generator><link>http://betashop.com/</link><item><title>My good friend Lars Hinrichs, launched HackFwd today for developing early-stage startups in Europe....</title><description>&lt;p&gt;My good friend Lars Hinrichs, launched HackFwd today for developing early-stage startups in Europe. Check it out! &lt;a href="http://hackfwd.com/." target="_blank"&gt;http://hackfwd.com/.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://betashop.com/post/677019259</link><guid>http://betashop.com/post/677019259</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:29:09 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>HackFwd</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message"&gt;&lt;span class="UIStory_Message"&gt;My good friend and fabulis investor, Lars Hinrichs, launched HackFwd today. Pre-seed investment company for developing early-stage startups in Europe. Check it out! &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://hackfwd.com/"&gt;&lt;a href="http://hackfwd.com/" target="_blank"&gt;http://hackfwd.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.  Awesome concept that I think will spur many startups in Europe.  Addresses some of the key challenges of entrepreneurship in Europe, namely risk aversion of founders, lack of startup networks and infrastructure.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;</description><link>http://betashop.com/post/676443413</link><guid>http://betashop.com/post/676443413</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:19:17 +0200</pubDate></item><item><title>we.are.fabulis.com is now live. http://bit.ly/9WZEN9</title><description>&lt;p&gt;we.are.fabulis.com is now live. &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/9WZEN9" target="_blank"&gt;http://bit.ly/9WZEN9&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://betashop.com/post/468000899</link><guid>http://betashop.com/post/468000899</guid><pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:04:24 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Oh look. This should make you laugh.http://bit.ly/dqRoVX</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Oh look. This should make you laugh.http://bit.ly/dqRoVX&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://betashop.com/post/466502068</link><guid>http://betashop.com/post/466502068</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 23:42:47 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>"Traction is the only thing that matters."</title><description>“Traction is the only thing that matters.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;me&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://betashop.com/post/442589959</link><guid>http://betashop.com/post/442589959</guid><pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:05:33 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>fabulis &amp; The Twitterverse vs. Citibank: A Case Study on the Power of Social Media to Change...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;fabulis &amp; The Twitterverse vs. Citibank: A Case Study on the Power of Social Media to Change Corporations &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/bGgmwM" target="_blank"&gt;http://bit.ly/bGgmwM&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://betashop.com/post/420051032</link><guid>http://betashop.com/post/420051032</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:14:29 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Inside the citi circus, by Jason Goldberg, fabulis. http://bit.ly/dzHEwB</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Inside the citi circus, by Jason Goldberg, fabulis. &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/dzHEwB" target="_blank"&gt;http://bit.ly/dzHEwB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://betashop.com/post/411923891</link><guid>http://betashop.com/post/411923891</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:53:15 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>fabuils accepts formal apology from citi. http://bit.ly/arJX0e</title><description>&lt;p&gt;fabuils accepts formal apology from citi. &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/arJX0e" target="_blank"&gt;http://bit.ly/arJX0e&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://betashop.com/post/411923888</link><guid>http://betashop.com/post/411923888</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:53:15 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>citibank is so not fabulis</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi everyone.  Jason Goldberg here, founder and ceo of &lt;a href="http://www.fabulis.com" target="_blank"&gt;fabulis&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;In a bit of strange and disturbing news, fabulis discovered today that someone(s) at &lt;a href="http://www.citibank.com" target="_blank"&gt;Citibank&lt;/a&gt; had decided arbitrarily to block fabulis’ bank account due to what was described to us on the phone as “objectionable content” on &lt;a href="http://blog.fabulis.com" target="_blank"&gt;our blog&lt;/a&gt;.  In fact, the account — it turns out — was blocked a few days ago without anyone letting us know about it by phone or email.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Huh?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mind you, &lt;a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6183G920100211?type=smallBusinessNews" target="_blank"&gt;fabulis is a serious business&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://paidcontent.org/article/419-social-net-for-gay-men-fabulis-raises-625k-from-wapo-others/" target="_blank"&gt;backed by some serious players&lt;/a&gt;, and for the life of us we can’t find anything “objectionable” on our blog besides some good humor, some business insights, and some touching coming out stories from some great and fabulis gay people.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So, what gives?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And wtf. When did Citibank start reviewing blogs to decide who can bank with them?&lt;br/&gt;Calls into Citibank tonight resulted in a temporary lifting of the block while a compliance officer is asked to re-review our website on Thursday.&lt;br/&gt;Stay tuned … we’ll update you on this shocker as we learn more.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kydatgpJhQ1qzjfbq.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;I promise you that if we do not get a good response to this on Thursday we are moving our bank account to a bank that respects and appreciates our business.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://betashop.com/post/409787590</link><guid>http://betashop.com/post/409787590</guid><pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:36:00 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>New fabulis homepage launched, with videos! Get a free t-shirt! http://bit.ly/92QEzx</title><description>&lt;p&gt;New fabulis homepage launched, with videos! Get a free t-shirt! &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/92QEzx" target="_blank"&gt;http://bit.ly/92QEzx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://betashop.com/post/367247123</link><guid>http://betashop.com/post/367247123</guid><pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:28:53 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>RT @paidContent: Socialmedian’s Jason Goldberg has raised $625k for new site Fabulis;...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;RT @paidContent: Socialmedian’s Jason Goldberg has raised $625k for new site Fabulis; WashingtonPost is an investor &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/bVq8uZ" target="_blank"&gt;http://bit.ly/bVq8uZ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://betashop.com/post/359929881</link><guid>http://betashop.com/post/359929881</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:16:08 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>fabulis karma</title><description>&lt;p&gt;The former owner of the “fabulis” twitter ID decided voluntarily to hand it over to us today.  We love him.  Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.twitter.com/fabulis" target="_blank"&gt;You can now follow fabulis on Twitter&lt;/a&gt;.  We’ll start tweeting shortly.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://betashop.com/post/358460722</link><guid>http://betashop.com/post/358460722</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:00:02 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>One Of These Venture Firms Is Not Like The Other</title><description>&lt;a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2010/01/22/one-of-these-venture-capital-firms-is-not-like-the-other/?mod=tech"&gt;One Of These Venture Firms Is Not Like The Other&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;First Round Capital, an early-stage seed fund, made the 4th most investments of any venture firm last year.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://betashop.com/post/352500236</link><guid>http://betashop.com/post/352500236</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:09:02 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Realism in UI Design</title><description>&lt;a href="http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2010/01/21/realism_in_ui_design/"&gt;Realism in UI Design&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://betashop.com/post/346219569</link><guid>http://betashop.com/post/346219569</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:53:48 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>How to be passionate (when you open your mouth) </title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2010/how-to-be-passionate/"&gt;How to be passionate (when you open your mouth) &lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://betashop.com/post/346218362</link><guid>http://betashop.com/post/346218362</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:52:35 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>The biggest-grossing Bollywood film ever made is about engineering geeks.</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2010/01/the-biggest-grossing-bollywood-film-ever-made-is-about-engineering-geeks/"&gt;The biggest-grossing Bollywood film ever made is about engineering geeks.&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://betashop.com/post/335897795</link><guid>http://betashop.com/post/335897795</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:16:47 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Ricky Gervais quits 'pointless' Twitter</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jan/15/ricky-gervais-quits-pointless-twitter"&gt;Ricky Gervais quits 'pointless' Twitter&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://betashop.com/post/335897065</link><guid>http://betashop.com/post/335897065</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:16:09 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Support Haiti | Tumblr</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.tumblr.com/haiti"&gt;Support Haiti | Tumblr&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://betashop.com/post/335896445</link><guid>http://betashop.com/post/335896445</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:15:37 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>the fabulis blog</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kwamypKUBK1qzjfbq.png"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href="http://blog.fabulis.com" target="_blank"&gt;fabulis blog&lt;/a&gt; is now up and running.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bradfordshellhammer.com" target="_blank"&gt;Bradford&lt;/a&gt; and I will be posting items more relevant to founding &lt;a href="http://www.fabulis.com" target="_blank"&gt;fabulis&lt;/a&gt; often over there, while I will continue to post broader startup and entrepreneurship items here at betashop.  Realistically that means I will be doing more &lt;a href="http://blog.fabulis.com" target="_blank"&gt;there&lt;/a&gt;, and less &lt;a href="http://www.betashop.com" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, as starting a new company is more than a fulltime gig.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I highly encourage you to tune in the fabulis blog to follow us step by step as we create and launch fabulis.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://betashop.com/post/335879412</link><guid>http://betashop.com/post/335879412</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:00:13 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>"actor George Clooney is planning to host a telethon to raise money for the people of Haiti next..."</title><description>“actor George Clooney is planning to host a telethon to raise money for the people of Haiti next Friday on all the MTV channels”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://showbiz411.blogs.thr.com/george-clooney-to-host-mtv-telethon-for-haiti/" target="_blank"&gt;George Clooney to Host MTV Telethon for Haiti | The Hollywood Reporter | Showbiz 411 | Entertainment News&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://betashop.com/post/334325394</link><guid>http://betashop.com/post/334325394</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:59:54 +0100</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
