Ask HN: How to hire if you're a profitable bootstrapped startup? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: How to hire if you're a profitable bootstrapped startup?

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Post by btstrpthrowaway » Tue, Nov 23, 2010, 5:46 AM UTC

fan wrote: post #2

I personally have had some luck with Joel's stackoverflow career postings when it first started out. I'm not sure what it's like anymore. Also, are you a programmer yourself? If so it's much easier because you can just reach back to classmates and friends. Otherwise, you probably have a much harder time. There's an entire article here about how it's hard to hire a good programmer if you're not good yourself: http://w…

Yeah we actually just posted on that. The problem with stack overflow is that it seems to be overwhelmed by the HR department of ginormous firms (Adobe, Facebook, etc).

The "ambiance" of the place is more like a formal recruiting board versus a place to get talented hackers. Read through the other posts and then look at ours, it really seems out of place: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/Jobs/9293/

(Note: just want to show a point, if i'm not supposed to post specific info please tell me).

Actually, come to speak of it, the authentic jobs post by zaveri (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1932313) seems a lot more promising. Maybe I made a mistake with stack overflow -- the costs of authenticjobs seems lower too.

Re: Ask HN: How to hire if you're a profitable bootstrapped startup?

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Post by hcho » Tue, Nov 23, 2010, 12:33 PM UTC

Every month or so, there is a "Who's hiring?" thread on HN. I heard their frequenters are prety interested in startups.

Re: Ask HN: How to hire if you're a profitable bootstrapped startup?

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Post by brianm » Tue, Nov 23, 2010, 5:58 PM UTC

btstrpthrowaway wrote: post #9

brianm wrote: post #7

A couple of the best recruiters I know just started an agency aimed primarily at early stage ventures. While they are recruiters, they are amazing, and understand building early teams. http://lab8ventures.com/

That's interesting -- have you used this group in the past and thinks have turned out well? I've heard that some recruiters really can be great but often can only be found through recommendations. Any other recruiter recommendations would be great too. I'm just afraid to go off of a random recruiter from Google Adwords (or even the organic search, given SEO's effectiveness these days).

I have worked with everyone involved, when they were on staff as our recruiting team. They were an awesome in-house team, and considering they are the same team, just as an agency, I am willing to bet they are still awesome.