There is definitely a need to create channels here. Jobs would be one that's been on my mind for a while as a use case, and actually Paul Jones has built a solution that can do this. If people want, we can experiment with that.
How about this as a solution: an RSS feed that people can subscribe to, which in effect could also be a newsletter. The RSS feed gets content by people filling out a form OR by adding machine code to blog posts (like how edgeio tried once upon a time) OR by people emailing as you suggest an email address and it gets populated into a digest. Elias Bizannes http://eliasbizannes.com On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Andrew Dowling < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I’ve been sifting through the SB archives for advice on the best way > to locate early-stage talent for start-ups in Sydney. The group > guidelines are pretty clear that this is outside the scope of the SB > group postings, and I think this makes sense – keeping the signal to > noise ratio high is really important. > > Having said that, the general recommendations on how to find the right > sort of person for an early-stage start-up (adventurers, generalists > with specialist skills, risk-takers, happy to take a start-up salary > in exchange for some upside) still seem a bit lacking. Posting a role > like this on whirlpool or gumtree, for example (or even worse seek) > will hit a big audience, but most of that audience will not the sort > of person a start-up is looking for. My experiences using Seek in > this regard have been worse than terrible. The right talent might be > there, but it gets drowned out in all the noise. > > It strikes me that Silicon Beach could really fill a big gap here. > Looking at the profiles of many people on the list, it seems they can > be divided into one of three types: > 1. A large proportion of “wannabe” entrepreneurs looking to find an > opportunity (and I mean that in a totally positive way) > 2. A bunch are entrepreneurs in the middle of the crazy fun of > launching their own thing (like me) > 3. Established entrepreneurs/VCs/etc who have been around the start-up > block a few times and who are looking to put back into the local start- > up community and help it grow. > > I’m sure there are many other groups in there but this seems like a > reasonable simplification. One thing they all have in common is (quite > obviously) their interest in start-ups ... the sort of audience self- > selection that all the other job-posting forums lack. > > Using this breakdown, it would seem to me that the first two groups > are likely to actively WANT to be able to read posts about early-stage > positions, while the latter would like to avoid them like the plague. > The following post from late last year contained a few perspectives on > this issue from both sides of the fence: > > http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia/browse_thread/thread/a508543b13a29288/80d3d59b250ab207?lnk=gst&q=benchmark#80d3d59b250ab207 > > As Marko commented in this post, one of the goals of SB is to help > foster the local entrepreneurial community, and posting open positions > would appear to be in line with this. Elias said in reply that he > doesn’t want to hurt other start-ups in the recruitment area, but I > would have thought we’re talking about something quite specialized > here … open positions at early stage start-ups for people looking to > take a chance and get in at the ground floor of something with great > potential. I’d imagine the numbers would be very small. > > (Note that I am ONLY talking about very early-stage positions here, > those key founding employees which will make or break a start-up. When > your start-up is established and just needs to build out the team as > it grows, I think you’re unlikely to find the sort of people you’re > looking for in the first group I’ve listed above.) > > I’d be interested to hear what everyone thinks, but I’d definitely > vote for something like a Silicon Beach sub-group specifically devoted > to this sort of thing. That way it could be opt-in only, to avoid > spamming those who didn’t want to be notified of positions like this. > We could also establish guidelines that prevented people posting later- > stage positions (particularly large numbers of them) that should > really belong on somewhere like Seek. > > Apologies about the long post – this is quite a nuanced issue so > seemed to warrant some discussion. It’s also quite close to my heart > given the stage my business is at! > > Comments? Very interested to hear what everyone thinks…. > > Cheers, > Andrew. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach > Australia mailing list. > > Guidelines on discussion: > http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia/msg/351e183e1303508d?hl=en%3Fhl%3Den > > No lurkers! 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