Developers, talk to a VC before a recruitment agency(blog.hirelite.com)
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Developers, talk to a VC before a recruitment agency
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This is a really good point. Also - as a startup, we typically got better candidates who came through our investors. Certain type of candidate was the one that knew where to look.
If you're in Los Angeles / SoCal - talk to Mark Suster at GRP Ventures. He's communicated that just about everyone in his portfolio is hiring.
If you're in Los Angeles / SoCal - talk to Mark Suster at GRP Ventures. He's communicated that just about everyone in his portfolio is hiring.
Just make sure you've never left a job in under 10 years, even if you got an enormous raise or your boss was an ass or you got a much better situation out of it. In fact, you should be willing to tolerate a shit situation and lower pay for years just to prove your loyalty.
http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/04/22/never-hire-job...
ps -- make sure never to look out for #1 -- that's for companies, not you, silly employee
http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/04/22/never-hire-job...
ps -- make sure never to look out for #1 -- that's for companies, not you, silly employee
Great article. We're currently looking for developers in the Ottawa/Montreal area in python if anyone wants to drop me a line!
The other hidden benefit to this is that VCs are usually the only way for stealth mode companies to be hiring.
Some Israeli VCs I know, actually have in-house recruitment agency.
Google Ventures has this too.
Having looked at their portfolio, I'd be interested in talking to their in in-house recruitment agency. Do you know how someone could go about contacting them?
This is all public but I don't really have any close personal connections that lead to her.
http://twitter.com/#!/lgrenawalt http://www.linkedin.com/in/lindsaygrenawalt
http://twitter.com/#!/lgrenawalt http://www.linkedin.com/in/lindsaygrenawalt
I've updated the post with a contact at Google Ventures.
This makes something like Mixtent.com more valuable...since you now have people vouching for developers/companies, you could probably do the same thing for places to work.
if i were acquainted with a VC ... :)
hi Vlad!
hi! to you too
that way i know a bunch of VC :) Even my VC-handshaking friends after founding/CTOing several startups, still so far ended up like me - architectors or principal level engineers in established companies.
that way i know a bunch of VC :) Even my VC-handshaking friends after founding/CTOing several startups, still so far ended up like me - architectors or principal level engineers in established companies.
:)
Well I guess that is more job security depending on what you want. You can always go back to doing startups, plus you will know a bunch of other engineers who may hop on board with you.
Well I guess that is more job security depending on what you want. You can always go back to doing startups, plus you will know a bunch of other engineers who may hop on board with you.
If you know the type of work you want to do, have a list of some of the stuff you have coded/what languages you know, and/or are interested in a specific company we have feel free to shoot me an email and I will try to help out (info is on Nathan's blog).