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Ask PG: Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund in 2010

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Re: Ask PG: Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund in 2010

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Another idea, this one a bit more serious:

Solve the non-programming programmer problem. More specifically, solve the problem of obscenely padded CVs swamping the HR department with the result that incompetent candidates fill the interview spaces.

How? Codility.com already made a start on this with online coding tests. But the way it's structured, it'd likely come after the time-consuming resumé inspection. Could there not be a site that handles job listings, applications, AND coding tests? Like the employer posts the job and the site provides an appropriate test. Applicants can send their CV to the employer after they've sat the test.

The cost-saving of not reading all those useless CVs and conducting fruitless interviews should add up to quite a bit for most businesses. I suppose one of the harder implementation challenges would be how to cook up lots of appropriate tests.

Re: Ask PG: Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund in 2010

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Not sure if you're only looking for input from the funders themselves? Well in any case here's a fun idea I'd like to see implemented: A music-making marketplace. What do I mean? Somewhere online that lets people sell simple musical components (like melodies, beats, lyrics, chord progressions /backing tracks) and musical services (like singing parts, mixing, playing, sequencing, arranging). Whole songs could be assem…

http://musikpitch.com . 99Designs for Music.

Re: Ask PG: Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund in 2010

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post #21

Another idea, this one a bit more serious: Solve the non-programming programmer problem. More specifically, solve the problem of obscenely padded CVs swamping the HR department with the result that incompetent candidates fill the interview spaces. How? Codility.com already made a start on this with online coding tests. But the way it's structured, it'd likely come after the time-consuming resumé inspection. Could the…

codility.com made a parthership with http://humanway.com/ - together they offer value prop that you are looking for.

Re: Ask PG: Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund in 2010

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post #22

How about a web app for gathering startup ideas and hooking people together that are interested in a particular idea?

Check out http://www.builditwith.me/ that connects designers and developers that have ideas.

Kewl! I'll definitely check it out, thx!
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