Early Startup Needs Gurus in IR, NLP, Content Discovery, Collaborative Filtering, etc.

[founder]

Hi Folks! My startup's looking for a few world-class gurus in search,
NLP, etc., for a critical project starting right away. Any help
finding the right folks would be phenomenally helpful and greatly
appreciated!

We're a very early, passionate, seed-funded startup with a cool new
Web service that manages the important information you find and keep
online. We're solving hard problems in online information management
that everyone feels everyday due to the limits of Desktop Era systems.
We're looking for brilliant, positive, good-hearted software
developers as critical early team members. We offer competitive cash
and equity, sharp and driven colleagues, a hand in shaping our future,
a chance to build services used by millions of people and an
opportunity to define how humanity works smarter in the Internet Age.

Please email us at lowprofi...@gmail.com if you're interested.
We're moving quickly to fill these roles and we'd love to hear from
you!

In your reply, please briefly describe your fit/interest based on what
we're looking for (described below).

THE DETAILS:
- Start within the next month (flexible)
- Initial project of 3 to 6 months
- Competitive cash and equity
- Working remotely is OK
- Consulting arrangement or part time employment with an eye toward
full time employment later

THE HIGHLIGHTS:
- Work with passionate, driven colleagues with previous successful
startup experience
- Dream up and implement new techniques enabled by our novel platform
- Be recognized as an inventor on patents filed based on your work
- Be an early member of a startup being lauded by folks that live and
breathe Web content:

"This is one of the best thought-through systems I have seen, and I
believe it would have widespread utility in the information age."
-VP of strategic planning and business development at a biotech
firm

"Overall, this is a fantastic tool for research... Can see this
being a big hit in my research dept…"
-Research coordinator at a public health program

"...I've come across multiple times this last week where this would
be useful."
-Senior researcher at a leading management consulting firm

"...would sell quite well to universities, patent firms and design
companies."
-Head of science and engineering libraries at a large public
university

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR:
- A passion for working smart and hard to do things that no one has
done before
- BS or MS in Computer Science or Equivalent (PhD a plus)
- Software development experience involving any of the following:
+ Collaborative filtering
+ Data mining
+ Machine learning
+ Artificial intelligence (AI)
+ Automatic summarization
+ Question answering (QA)
+ Information retrieval and search
+ Knowledge and content discovery
+ Text, lexical and semantic analysis
+ Natural language processing (NLP)
+ Other information extraction techniques