The sale enabled Ambras, who won't say how much he made, to take a few years off to ski.

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This group, says Ambras, isn't of much interest to executive recruiters who make money placing workers at higher salaries.

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"Regardless of where I was working, I struggled to find talent, " says Ambras, who works from Palo Alto, Calif.

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Ambras and Ellis spread the word about Notchup through friends and at conferences.

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Companies want these "passive job seekers, " as Ambras calls them, because "stellar people usually aren't in the job market, " says Pelago's Scholl.

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Ambras says more than 1, 000 companies have applied to access the site.

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Ambras, 50, is a computer scientist who was one of the first executives at Zip2, which provided online publishing software to news organizations.

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