Gradspot.com targets clueless college grads
Caitlin Browne
Issue date: 4/19/07 Section: Features
With Commencement around the corner, many seniors will soon break out of the Brown bubble - but a new Web site, going live Monday, hopes to ease the transition.
Matt Demmer, co-founder of the Web site and a recent Georgetown University graduate, said Gradspot would serve as an "information and tool resource for recent graduates from college."
Demmer founded the company with two friends - , a graduate of Oxford and Harvard universities, and Stuart Schultz, an Emory University grad. Demmer said the three founders designed the site based on the resources they would have found useful as they moved on from college life and adjusted to the "real world."
The Web site has five components: apartment, money, career, health and play. Articles cover topics from fix-it tips, renters' insurance and tipping the doorman to 401(k)s, office politics and choosing a health care provider.
The site will feature a forum where grads can share tips and experiences, a forum for locating potential roommates, and a job posting board where companies can advertise positions aimed at recent grads, he said.
The job board allowing companies to post positions aimed at recent grads will prevent people from having to wade through listings on other sites for jobs for which they don't have enough experience, and the roommate board may provide some reassurance to recent grads wary of Craigslist.
"When someone advertises for a roommate, at least you'll know it's someone who went to college, and you'll know which college, which is comforting," Demmer said.
All three founders were living in New York when , whom Demmer met when studying abroad in London, approached Demmer with the idea. and Schultz had been working together at an investment bank, but both realized the banking world did not interest them. From there, the Gradspot project emerged.
Matt Demmer, co-founder of the Web site and a recent Georgetown University graduate, said Gradspot would serve as an "information and tool resource for recent graduates from college."
Demmer founded the company with two friends - , a graduate of Oxford and Harvard universities, and Stuart Schultz, an Emory University grad. Demmer said the three founders designed the site based on the resources they would have found useful as they moved on from college life and adjusted to the "real world."
The Web site has five components: apartment, money, career, health and play. Articles cover topics from fix-it tips, renters' insurance and tipping the doorman to 401(k)s, office politics and choosing a health care provider.
The site will feature a forum where grads can share tips and experiences, a forum for locating potential roommates, and a job posting board where companies can advertise positions aimed at recent grads, he said.
The job board allowing companies to post positions aimed at recent grads will prevent people from having to wade through listings on other sites for jobs for which they don't have enough experience, and the roommate board may provide some reassurance to recent grads wary of Craigslist.
"When someone advertises for a roommate, at least you'll know it's someone who went to college, and you'll know which college, which is comforting," Demmer said.
All three founders were living in New York when , whom Demmer met when studying abroad in London, approached Demmer with the idea. and Schultz had been working together at an investment bank, but both realized the banking world did not interest them. From there, the Gradspot project emerged.