Idea: Start a website that connect/matches founders!
Hey, that's my idea! I'm going to make a mint!
Step 1: get lots of people jobs
Step 2: ...
Step 3: Profit!
Finding jobs with startups
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Re: Finding jobs with startups
#22I recently discovered a site, http://buildv1.com that was built for hooking up startups with startuppers. I actually found someone from this site that worked with us for a little while.
Re: Finding jobs with startups
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
One post I read, and I'm sure there are others like it, are from people with some great idea (secret, of course) and they need someone to actually do it. Those crack me up -- what are they even bringing to the table? "You do all the work, and we'll give you a small percentage."
There is more to a startup than just code. For example, from the sounds of it the producer currently seems to be the person with the highest workload at justin.tv (except for Justin, who is working 24/7).
Of course, but what do you want to bet most people with a "great idea" have anything more to offer than that?
Before Justin.tv launched, I imagine there was a lot of coding/testing involved. Most start-ups don't need a TV producer even after they have a product.
Re: Finding jobs with startups
#24A whole lot of startups post on Craigslist. Searching for "startup", "funded", etc works pretty well. Quite a few totally legit early-stage startups post there. http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/sof?query=startup&format=rss
the best way in the UK i find is just to send an email with your CV. Agree to work for free for a while (month?) as a tester, they will love that your enthusiasm and if you dont get a permanent job, at least you would have learnt somethin.
want a job?
Re: Finding jobs with startups
#25Idea: Start a website that connect/matches founders!
There is one...check out buildv1.com. It's still in it's infancy, but the mission is in line with the theme of this thread.
Re: Finding jobs with startups
#26A hacker friend asked me a while ago how to find a job with a startup, and it bothers me that I've never been able to give him a satisfactory answer. I wanted to respond "through friends" but that's not very helpful to someone who isn't as well-connected, which he isn't because he made the mistake of taking a mind-numbing job when he left college and losing touch with his classmates. Startups don't often hire recruit…
Startups don't often hire recruiters,
This is not true. Usually one of the first people brought in after a series-A round of financing is some sort of VP-level manager whose job is to find other people to hire. This VP often was a recruiter, or hiring manager at some point, and usually hires some sort of recruiter to help him or her find people.
Re: Finding jobs with startups
#27Are you sure you want to work for a startup? In my experience, working at a startup is good for one thing: learning how to manage a bunch of random stuff all happening at the same time.
You don't get paid as well as if you just worked at google or yahoo, and as an employee, your stake is usually something like .25-.75% of the company, which means if the place gets bought for 100M, you'll make out with about $120K extra, 4 years down the road.
$120K isn't anything to scoff at, but keep in mind that startups pay a lower salary, and if you scored a job at yahoo for $90K instead of $60K at the startup, after 4 years you'd have the same amount of money.
Now, if you can swing a deal where you get 10% of the company, I'd go for it. But with a percentage like that, you're gonna be employee 3, co-founding, not just "have a job at a startup."