Joe The Intern here for my last and final blog post. As my co-worker Brent would say, cries. Going to try to keep this post as entertaining as possible for the common reader. Top 10 lists always seem to be popular, so I’ve decided to formulate the top 10 things I love at Become.com, not [...]
This summer I was a product specialist intern here at Become. Although I had to give up my long-awaited and highly anticipated three months of summer, my experience at Become was almost worth the sacrifice (ha). Aside from working with numerous researcher tools, sitting in on weekly team meetings, drinking some great wine during the [...]
So, here at Become.com we take our foosball matches very seriously. We recently hired a couple summer interns to help us out, and from the beginning they’ve been strutting around the office with their cocky attitudes and new school flavor. I was challenged today to a 1v1 match against the self proclaimed “foosball [...]
Become.com is excited to announce that yesterday it raised $17.5 million investment from TPG (Texas Pacific Group), one of the largest private equity and venture capital firms in the world. Everyone here at Become.com is thrilled with the deal and the opportunity to continue to grow our business into the most enjoyable shopping experience [...]
It’s time for all you Facebook® addicts to celebrate; Become.com has officially created it’s own company page on Facebook®! Login to your personal account and become of a fan of Become.com. Find other fans of our site on Facebook® and discuss all your shopping stories, opinions and advice in our discussion board and [...]
Renaming our company. (If they fix it) We had all been sitting around brainstorming on how we could come up with a really terrible name, then the LA times comes along and helps us out. Using the power of run on sentences, they were able to tell the story of this young startup and our [...]
We here at Pocket Change tend to be a fairly happy bunch. Our posts are full of well-wishing and all the happy things. Sure we sometimes find a product or service to be less than stellar, but on the whole we have a very positive outlook. This is in stark contrast with the vast majority [...]
