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Beyond.com Selected by AlwaysOn as a Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic 100 Winner

Beyond.com, a Career Network focused on helping people grow and succeed, today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic 100 winners.  Inclusion in the Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic 100 signifies leadership amongst its peers and game-changing approaches and technologies that are likely to disrupt existing markets and entrenched players. Beyond.com was specially selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team and industry experts spanning the globe based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz.

Beyond.com and the Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic 100 companies will be honored at the IMPACT Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic event, November 29th and 30th, 2011, at the Ritz Carlton in Philadelphia, PA. 

This two-day executive event features CEO presentations and high-level debates on the most promising emerging technologies and new entrepreneurial opportunities on the East Coast. PACT’s annual venture conference, IMPACT 2011, is the most established venture conference in the northeast. For over 20 years, IMPACT has been showcasing the best and most promising investment opportunities in the technology, life sciences, and clean technology sectors.

“The Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic 100 winners are transforming the mid-Atlantic region’s technology community through innovation and creativity,” said Tony Perkins, founder and editor at AlwaysOn. “The companies represent some of the highest-growth opportunities in the mid-Atlantic private company marketplace across all industry sectors, including digital media and entertainment, on-demand computing as well as greentech and the life sciences.”

The Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic 100 winners were selected from among thousands of mid-Atlantic technology companies nominated by investors, bankers, journalists, and greentech industry insiders.  The AlwaysOn editorial team conducted a rigorous three-month selection process to finalize the 2011 list.

Oil Leak Fuels Jobs

Although the oil leak in the Gulf is an awful event, this leak is fueling a mini job boom in the Gulf of Mexico.  Companies that specialize in environmental clean up and protection have been called onto the scene to help prevent oil from intoxicating additional bodies of water.

While these companies thrive in these crises they like everyone else don’t want these things to happen. And while businesses that are dedicated to the clean up are booming those businesses (fishermen, restaurant workers, charter boat captains and tourism employees) that rely on the Gulf as a clean body of water are in the balance. 

In the short term one may think that these fishermen, restaurant workers, boat captains and tourism employees are waiting for the leak to be contained and cleaned up in hopes of returning to work, but they too are actually reaping the benefits of the leak.

It’s been reported that BP has hired more than 20,000 people as part of response to the April 20^th accident and these contractors and subcontractors that BP has brought in have taken up residence along the coast of FL, AL, MS, and LA which is keeping these coastal towns busy trying to provide food and shelter to these (hopefully) temporary residents. 

Jobs to assist in the clean up have been posted and thousands have applied for the 500 available clean-up jobs.  Those with environmental or haz-mat certifications are being hired, and those without certifications are trying to get certified as quickly as possible as the demand for work is so great.

 

While there are jobs to be found for those who qualify, we must not forget that loved ones were lost on April 20^th and that oil has been contaminating our oceans for more than a month.  While there are jobs to be found now, the long term price is massive.  And if the leak cannot be contained there may be many more people out of work.

How do you feel about the situation in the Gulf?  We want to hear from you!