VentureBeat

Is it time to sell?

Today’s data suggests M&A activity and valuations are robust, so it just might be, depending on your situation.

Support Magic, out of Bangalore, is the latest company to put up a for-sale sign at VentureBoard. It is an on-demand customer interaction management software company that competes against RightNow, LivePerson & Talisma. It has all the right AJAX magic, but the team wants to focus on product development, and wants to put Support Magic in the right hands, the company tells us.

Since launching our $100,000 plus VentureBeat JobBoard, the job market continues to get tighter. Silicon Valley has a 4.1 percent unemployment rate, the lowest since the boom. Employers are having a tough time finding qualified applicants, so we’re trying to help.

Here are some of the latest job listings, just in time for some Thanksgiving resume-writing:

–Bing, a stealth Palo Alto start-up run by industry veteran Eric Hahn, looks for ace software developer. (This is a company no one has reported on before.)
–Tabula, a Santa Clara start-up, is hiring aggressively, also wants some software developers, but also a design architect and a circuit designer.
–First Round Capital, the seed venture capital firm run by Josh Kopelman and Rob Hayes, is looking for a venture analyst.
–Energy Innovations, the solar technology company that just signed a deal with Google to introduce the nation’s largest commercial installment, is looking for sales and marketing people.
–Ad network company AdMob is looking for a software engineer; Amazon’s search start-up, A9.com, is looking for a product manager; and SearchForce is looking for a software engineer.

Dan Primack, the guy who holds court at PE Week each morning and rants about the world of private equity, is launching a blog site Monday. It is called PEHub.

He’ll be blogging, there will be columns from buyout and VC guys, and other ways for folks to participate. Dan, based in Boston, is the most entertaining blogger out there on private equity, but he’s been stuck in an email format thus far. Congrats, Dan. It’s about time! This should be fun.

“It scares the hell out of me, but I’m looking forward to doing it, nonetheless,” Dan tells Podtech’s John Furrier in a podcast. Here is the podcast. Here’s John’s story.