Co-Founders David Reich & Matt Albrecht of AssuredLabor.com

I interviewed AssuredLabor co-founders Matt Albrecht and David Reich (the middle two pictured above, winning the MIT ESC = Executive Summary Contest this past Fall 2007!) about their tremendous progress over this past year building up their labor-market-making venture! Assured connects responsible, vetted worker with trustworthy employers (and vice-versa). I first got to know the team when they were my students in the joint Media Lab / Sloan School elective Developmental Entrepreneurship / Development Ventures seminar in Fall 2007. Their initial focus was the Brazilian favela labor market generally. More recently, they have honed in on the Brazilian migrant community here in Boston-metro and, even more specifically, on the core services of cleaning and moving. They are launching their Boston Beta shortly!