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Looking for a cool job? Forget job boards, talk to angel investors
- shykes 16y agoIf you're looking for a challenging engineering job, the Contagion Health team is truly awesome. They think big, and with Andrey you will learn a lot.
- contagionhealth 16y agoAww shucks. Thanks shykes.
- qq66 16y agoOut of curiosity, how did you pick the name? The word "contagion" gives me the chills and I imagine boils on my skin. Although now, imagining this, I'm motivated to exercise to keep myself in good health =)
- Cmccann7 16y agoSecond this. Most of the VC backed and Seed funded startup CEO's I know are desperate for good engineers/developers/designers. It's a good time now if you are in the job market.
- MC27 16y agoIf they are "desperately hiring," why aren't they promoting the positions? Even mentioning them on their own websites? Putting the word out to recruitment agents etc. Just seems strange, that's all.
- shazow 16y agoThey do. Many institutional angel investors have their own job boards, especially since they hold dozens of companies in their portfolios: http://www.ventureloop.com/foundersfund/ http://www.ventureloop.com/foundersfund/ http://www.felicisvc.com/jobs.aspx http://www.felicisvc.com/jobs.aspx Smaller individual angel investors have more ad-hoc operations and haven't bothered with streamlining hiring for their investments. This may change.
- MC27 16y agoInteresting links, thanks. Start-ups interest me, but given where I live, the development work is nearly always from new media agencies.
- moolave 16y agoLike how angel investors prefer referrals; they may also prefer referring folks they know in their network.
- toxicflavor 16y agoI would say the only startup worth working on is your own. Working at someone else's startup is a recipe for getting exploited - overworked and underpaid. And the worst thing about it is that it's all couched in an atmosphere of guilt trips and taking-it-for-the-team. I'm sure there are exceptions. I just haven't seen any. I'd rather work for The Man in my day job in a cold corporate environment where everything is explicit from the get-go, get well paid for it and crank out code for my own startup in my free time.
- shazow 16y agoNo exploitation is necessary if it just so happens you have a common interest. There's a lot of people who want to do a startup but don't know how: How do you make deals? How do you raise money? How do you hire? One way to learn is to go off and do it. The other is to join an early-enough startup that is still learning all these things and learn with them without the risks. When you're ready, go off and do your own thing. The people you want to surround yourself with are the ones more interested in helping each other than exploiting each other. I honestly don't have much belief in the taking-it-for-the-team guilt trip approach. If the job is not in everyone's interest then it's time to re-work the incentives (equity?).
- davidw 16y agoYou won't necessarily be involved in that stuff though - you'll be off in a corner coding. You'll learn things, for sure, but things like raising money and doing deals will be 2nd hand. You might well be involved with hiring other people.
- aberman 16y agoHere we go... Most of the people I have seen writing (and upvoting) these kinds of comments have never worked for a startup, and they are bitter (for one reason or another). Or they have worked for a startup and it's failed. Are you really trying to look out for the best interests of all those poor, mis-guided people working for all those cruel and single-minded startups, or are you trying to convince yourself that your own life decision to work "for The Man in [your] day job in a cold corporate environment" was the right one. I spend A LOT of time with former startup employees. They are happy with their decisions. I say former because many of them have been a part of an exit, and are now working on their own companies...with some cash in their pockets, an impressive rolodex (of investors), and a good reputation because they were part of a winning team. Most of the employees of early stage and recently funded companies that I know are happy to be where they are. They work late because they are passionate and enthusiastic and they like to win. Keep putting them (and the startups that employ them) down. You're cause is really noble.
- WillyF 16y agoI find a decent number of the companies that I cover (I write about companies that are hiring) by following investors. Their job is to be up on what's next. The only quibble that I have is that it may be tough to get an angel investor's attention. That doesn't mean that you can't follow them on Twitter, read their blog, and stalk them in myriad other ways.
- joshu 16y agoYep. I've invested in 40 or so companies and many are hiring. Job boards are hard for early startups because the early employees are so formative that it really is about hiring exceptional people rather than filling headcount.
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