Orange County Register

Want to know how young entrepreneurs create companies these days? Look at Chapman University senior Matthew Sullivan (below), 20,  and My Bigwig.

The ambitious college student worked at a sandwich shop in Orange and constantly wanted more work. The manager never listened to him. After quitting in frustration he jumped on the Internet to find a Web site where he could share his frustration with others.

Rating sites started popping up in the 1990s. You can rate products, professors and people.

Sullivan couldn’t find what he wanted for rating jobs so he created his own site: MyBigWig.com where anyone can “review, rant and rave” about past or current employers and research future ones. It’s sparce right now, but it just launched.

Others have come up with the same idea: Jobvent.com and RateMyBossCafe.com are for U.S. companies. RateMyEmployer.ca is for Canada. Coderific is just for programmers.

They all seem to have more listings than MyBigWig.com, which just launched.

“I’m hoping the site becomes a huge database of the best information about jobs,” Sullivan says. “I would like to partner with a major career site some day and continue to expand. I want everyone to be able to use it as a job searching tool like imdb.com is for movies.” 

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