Hiring! We're saving democracy. Can your mint-for-groupon startup say that?

To anyone else also hiring: This deck made me want to work for Votizen. Instead of listing responsibilities/requirements, it sold the position to me. Hard. And that worked.

Perhaps we ought to have marketing do a once-over on all our job descriptions and hiring ads.

Re: Hiring! We're saving democracy. Can your mint-for-groupon startup say that?

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Post by jplewicke » Fri, Apr 15, 2011, 7:34 PM UTC

Strangely enough, Groupon was originally a startup named The Point trying to save democracy: http://www.thepoint.com/ . Andrew Mason, Groupon's CEO, was pretty psyched about a campaign to build a giant dome over the city of Chicago: http://www.thepoint.com/campaigns/chicago-winter-dome .

Re: Hiring! We're saving democracy. Can your mint-for-groupon startup say that?

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Post by novaurora » Fri, Apr 15, 2011, 7:55 PM UTC

jplewicke wrote: post #9

Strangely enough, Groupon was originally a startup named The Point trying to save democracy: http://www.thepoint.com/ . Andrew Mason, Groupon's CEO, was pretty psyched about a campaign to build a giant dome over the city of Chicago: http://www.thepoint.com/campaigns/chicago-winter-dome .

It is pretty funny. Our product and business is very different though.