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Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring?

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Related question: I recently left my previous job and am now looking for consulting work. I have never done consulting before. I have RoR / Ruby / machine learning / startup experience. How should I go about finding clients?

Go to conferences and shake lots of hands. You don't need 150 clients, you need 1 or 2 great clients. Like dating, it's a numbers game.

I don't think you have to push your RoR experience, since many business owners won't get it.

Find out what problems business owners are having and offers suggestions to solve it, even if it's doesn't include your services.

Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring?

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Not hiring exactly--looking for co-founders who are in the fortunate situation where they can work for no salary indefinitely (and get equity of course).

Same as you, except "a subsistence wage in the Bay Area" instead of "no salary" :) (see my profile)

Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring?

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We are hiring PHP developers at Connected Ventures (College Humor and Bustedtees). If you are in the New York area (or willing to relocate), send your resume to techjobs [@] connectedventures.com.

I will post more details at Startuply next week.

Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring?

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How timely, we're looking for 3 fulltime quality software developers right now!

Some requirements: 4+ years experience doing fulltime development, proven UI/UX skills, experience with SaaS oriented development, and desire to continuously improve your skills. And at least 10 points of karama at Hacker News :)

You'll be working on projects from conception to launch, contributing to the success of the business in a big way.

Preferred: Experience with Perl and Scrum.

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We are hiring PHP developers at Connected Ventures (College Humor and Bustedtees). If you are in the New York area (or willing to relocate), send your resume to techjobs [@] connectedventures.com. I will post more details at Startuply next week.

How's the New York scene for tech jobs? I'm going to try for a job in New York at some point (more in direction C++), but New York is not particularly know for being a tech hub in this sense. What's your personal impression about the availability of non-web related programming jobs?

Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring?

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How timely, we're looking for 3 fulltime quality software developers right now! Some requirements: 4+ years experience doing fulltime development, proven UI/UX skills, experience with SaaS oriented development, and desire to continuously improve your skills. And at least 10 points of karama at Hacker News :) You'll be working on projects from conception to launch, contributing to the success of the business in a big…

What company?

Re: Ask HN: Who's Hiring?

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Related question: I recently left my previous job and am now looking for consulting work. I have never done consulting before. I have RoR / Ruby / machine learning / startup experience. How should I go about finding clients?

Tectonic, I was an RoR freelancer for 2 years. Here are sites where I've found jobs: http://jobs.rubynow.com http://jobs.37signals.com http://bostonrb.org/jobs If you also just google "rails jobs" you'll find the other useful rails job sites out there. The best way to find work, however, is to build your network. One of the best clients I had was referred to me by a fellow I happened to have lunch with when I was in…

Mark Granovetter's Weak Tie in action! :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Granovetter
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