I've yet to meet a startup that had a good experience dealing with recruiters, at least when it comes to finding designers. I think the problem is that a lot of

I've yet to meet a startup that had a good experience dealing with recruiters, at least when it comes to finding designers. I think the problem is that a lot of designers are self-taught and the ones that have the best credentials might not always produce the best work. So I think design recruiting should be done by designers, and that's why I built Folyo (http://folyo.me http://folyo.me). Companies that have submitted an offer have received an average of 8 replies each, and they're all from good designers with solid portfolios. (By the way, if you're wondering WePay was one of the early users of the service, but the designers who replied were not in the US, and the visa issues proved to be too big an obstacle)