In this video, One Minute MBA describes best practices for finding the right hire for your Startup.
Gradspring Startup to Sponsor YouTube Contest for Advertising Students
This video provides an overview of Gradspring, a job board focusing on entry-level positions for recent graduates. The company recently joined forces with the crowdfunding platform Fundable.com to expand their user network and launch a contest for emerging advertising students and recent graduates of the Advertising field.
Once the project gets funded, Students will have the opportunity to gain visibility for their skill set and add “Advertising Pro” to their resume, by creating a submission for Gradspring’s “Jump Start Your Career” Youtube contest. The contest is a form of crowd sourcing in itself, and will encourage talented college students to write, produce, edit, and deliver professional quality ads about Gradspring during a 30 day contest. The creator of the ad with the most likes will receive $5000. The second runner-up will receive $2000, and the third runner-up will receive $1000.
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Bare Shelves – The Great Engineering Shortage
Jon Bischke from Entelo looks at why it is so tough to hire people with technical skills.
At a party recently a startup founder told me “If you could find me five great engineers in the next 90 days I’d pay you $400,000.” Which is crazy talk. Unless you stop to consider that Instagram’s team (mostly engineers) was valued at almost $80 million per employee or that corporate development heads often value engineers at startups they are acquiring at a half-million to million dollars per person. $400,000 actually might not be so crazy for a basketball lineup’s worth of guys who can sling Ruby or Scala code.
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Infographic: Where the Startup Jobs Are
This infographic comes to us from StartUphire.com with the aim to help raise awareness of the lack of qualified people filling technical positions in Startups.
36 percent of all open jobs at startups last year were engineering or technical jobs. However, those two sectors saw only 15 percent of the overall applicant pool trying to fill those positions. This supports evidence of an ever-tightening market for specific skills out there, and the need to keep developing and attracting qualified talent to young startup companies remains critical.
A Tip of the Hat goes to Randy Crum from Coolinfographics.com for pointing us to this story.
Video: Blueseed – The Googleplex of the Sea
In this video, Max Marty from Blueseed describes how the company is building a “visa-free technology incubator for startups” situated on a ship 12 miles off the coast of Silicon Valley. The project has attracted investors such as Paypal co-founder, venture capitalist and noted libertarian Peter Thiel (who once made an early investment in a little startup company called Facebook).
“Right now the US visa immigration system does not allow for entrepreneurs [from overseas] to come here and test out their ideas and create the new jobs and create the new companies of tomorrow,” says Blueseed co-founder Max Marty, “its system was designed for a bygone era.”
Video: How Startups Are Key to Job Growth
Watch How Startups Are Key to Job Growth on PBS. See more from PBS NEWSHOUR.
In this video, Wade Rousch describes how only new companies create real job growth.
With new jobs being so difficult to find in this economy, some say startups may be the answer. These companies are bringing not only new ideas, but new jobs to cities across the United States and the world.
Podcast: Polachi Executive Search Has an Eye on Startup Trends
In this podcast, Sean Carroll from the Polachi Executive Search Company in Boston discusses the Startup market on the East Coast and the trends that are shaking up the industry.
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insideStartups Video: Scavado Helps Recruiters Find, Recruit, & Win
In this video, Daniel Estrada from Scavado demonstrates the company’s easy to use recruitment search tool software. Scavado is a simple, powerful sourcing tool for proactive recruiters to find prospective candidates online, compile their contact information, and build a comprehensive pipeline of prospects to recruit.
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Daily Deals Site RapidBuyr Comes to Portland
RapidBuyr, a Startup daily deals site in the vein of Groupon has launched in our home town of Portland, Oregon.
RapidBuyr is a B2B daily deal site dedicated to providing millions of small and midsize businesses (SMBs) with opportunistic access to deep (up to 80%) discounts on higher dollar products and services such as hardware, software, web development & design, IT outsourcing, marketing, meetings, events, staffing assistance, SaaS offerings and more.
RapidBuyr uses a referral model and is currently hiring in several U.S. locations.
Why Startups Should Hire and Fire Fast
Mark Suster over at TechCrunch writes that the conventional wisdom is wrong when it comes to Startups needing to be slow to hire. In fact, he contends that hiring decisions need to happen at the same rapid pace that drives the business day to day.
There’s a certain cadence that you can feel when you spend time hanging any well-run startup company. The management team has to have a bias toward making decisions. They know that a 70% accurate decision made quickly and based on sound principles is better than a 90% decision made after careful consideration. The startup entrepreneur knows that they’re going to be wrong often. They’re flexible and willing to admit when they’re wrong. They don’t create a culture of punishment for mistakes. They live be the credo that if you’re never making mistakes you’re not trying hard enough. In my mind the sign of a great entrepreneur is the one that spots the 30% scenario quickly and adjusts but doesn’t get gun shy about rapid decision-making in the future.
Read the Full Story. Mark has also written related features including: Attitude over Aptitude, Only Hire A+ People, and Hiring at a Startup.
Announcing Our New Job Board – Free Listings for Portland Startups
In partnership with SimplyHired, inside-Startups is very pleased to announce our new Job Board.
Simply Hired is a vertical search engine company based in Silicon Valley, and we’re building the largest online database of jobs on the planet. Our goal is to make finding your next job a simple yet effective, enjoyable journey. We can’t always promise you’ll discover your dream job, but we’ll give you the best chance possible to get a bigger paycheck, a more considerate boss, or a shorter commute.
At inside-Startups, we want to help foster the Startup community in our home town of Portland, Oregon. In this spirit, we are offering free job postings for Portland-based companies.
To get your discount code, email info @ insideHPC.com, and we’ll send you a special discount code.
For everyone else, we’ve priced job postings at just $50 dollars for a 60-days posting. inside-Startups readers are one smart bunch, and we hope that you’ll take advantage of this opportunity to attract the best and the brightest talent out there.
