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by jblesage 4199 days ago
Depends on your niche.

If you are catering to a very select, focused audience then you don't need volume, because the specificity is your selling point.

There is a lot more than traffic that companies look for in a job board. Since your site is based around educational content, try to find profitable, untapped markets related to this and focus on only those markets at the beginning.

You can be creative with this: for example, hedge funds routinely pay top dollar to find the best PhD students in math-related subjects, so maybe there is a way to bring both together.

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Interesting. As it turns out, the site will be structured to show users content based on the particular tag combination they select.

So if they've selected #math #machine-learning #chaos #san-francisco #startup #phd, they'll be in a very focused group.

That's not really going to take off. You need to be THE math/machine-learning job board. You need to be top-of-mind with job boards.