Forget Milk

Below is a copy of the press release we sent out today regarding the sale of CeeVee.com to Lateral.

Bucharest, 14th of January 2010 Wilkins Lee Creative announces today that it has successfully completed the sell of CeeVee.com to Lateral Romania. Ceevee.com is a platform focused on developing an online tool that simplifies the building and maintaining of CVs/Resumes online.

CeeVee.com was launched on the local market just 6 months ago and experienced a huge growth ever since. Most recently, the CeeVee.com team has been working to keep up with the international demands.

Lee Wilkins, General Director Wilkins Lee Creative: “After many discussions with Lateral representatives focused on a future collaboration, we were impressed with the speed of their developments and their understanding of our business. Thus, what originally started as a partnership ended up as a buyout. Lateral Romania shares the same passion and drive that we have for Ceevee.com, but has a lot more resources on board and expertise in the job market. Wilkins Lee Creative will stay on board until the migration completes and will continue to offer advice going forward.”

Filip Chereches-Tosa, Partner at Lateral Romania: “We are delighted to bring Ceevee.com to our portfolio. The acquisition of CeeVee brings to the table the missing piece from our job related products. Ever since we started www.jobberbase.com and job-job.co.uk we felt we needed a compelling way to allow people to create and share CVs and offer this information to companies in a structured and machine-readable way. By means of this acquisition, CeeVee users have now access to targeted job offers and our partners and the open source community to many other services in a machine-readable format.”

About CeeVee:
CeeVee was founded in June 2008 in Bucharest and was focused on building an online tool that simplified the building and maintaining a CV/Resume online. In September 2008, CeeVee opened its door in private beta, its initial 600 users providing valued feedback and helping the site improvement. In July 2009, CeeVee opened its door in Public Beta – a simple platform that anyone can use, which connects companies to job-seekers and vice-versa.

About Wilkins Lee Creative
Wilkins Lee Creative is a design consultancy company focused on innovation and social media. The founder, Lee Wilkins, is an entrepreneur with experience in the online space for over 10 years. For more information, please visit: http://www.hellowilks.com

About Lateral Romania
Lateral Romania is a technology software provider with a significant interest in the job market, that currently owns: www.jobberbase.com (the largest open-source job board software), job aggregators: www.job-job.co.uk, www.jobjob.ro and www.jobber.ro (the largest IT specialist recruitment website in Romania). For more information, please visit: www.technologywithpassion.com

Contact person:
Mihnea Miculescu,
McCann PR
Email: mihnea_miculescu@mccanpr.ro
Tel: 021/ 23 23 727

In was a summers day back in June 2008. It was a HOT summer. I am talking 40+ degrees Celsius. Too hot for me.

I was still getting over the failure of MyKinda. It was a difficult time for me. MyKinda was my baby so to speak. I watched it grow, and ultimately I watched it fail. Tough times indeed, but a super educational experience.

So, I had begun to brainstorm some other niche, small, and simple web services that complimented the web as it is today, a noisy and segmented mess. I had watch the decline of the economy, the lose of jobs, and began to think how the likes of Monster and LinkedIn, and local players like eJobs and Best Jobs, can thrive in such an economy, especially as it was only going to get worse. Which it did.

Then it hit me. “We need a simple, painless, and free online resume service for the masses. We need a super sexy UI, and a product so simple that even my grandma can use”

Thus, CeeVee was born. It took me a wee little while to come up with a Brand that would convey a message. The message was what we do. CV/Resume = CeeVee. A few thousands of €’s later (cost of acquiring the .com) and only one meeting with my team, a private beta product was ready in September 2008. We privately launch this beta in .RO, and we instantly saw our numbers grow. We received tones of feedback. TONS!

We took the feedback, made some changes, and here we are today. At the time of writing this we’ve crossed the 1,600 resume mark. This no doubt has lots to do with you guys, the love you’ve sent us. Along with Techcrunch, CSSMania, KillerStartup and CSSwow to name but a few articles.

CeeVee has even been referred to as “the LinkedIn of Romania.” Whatever the case may be, we’re going to be around for a long time still, and continue to grow CeeVee.

I would also like to send out a special thanks to the team who has made this all possible, without you guys, I wouldn’t be writing this article!

So, what do you guys think of CeeVee?

a very interesting read indeed for any startup