I sort of like the RSS feed but I think what would be better would be a once weekly summary email titles 'SB Jobs Board'. Setup to a chron job.
That way, new people would see it and it wouldnt get lost in the noise. On 2/1/11, Geoff Langdale <[email protected]> wrote: > A sub-board makes sense. Is that technically feasible? Couldn't there > just be another Google group linked from the first page? The forms+RSS > or email/digest approaches are fine, too, and I guess maybe people > don't always necessarily want their job posts to spawn comment > threads; some moron might start flaming them about the use of the word > 'rockstar' or 'ninja'. :-) > > Being so restrictive about 'early stage positions only' doesn't make > sense. There just aren't that many startups out there. I do think it > would make sense to restrict advertising to tech startups (under a > certain size and meeting some broad criteria). > > I have a bias here; when Sensory Networks is hiring again we would > like to have more (reasonable) places to do it and to reach a certain > class of person. That is, that large middle ground of potential job > applicants who might be interested in working for a startup without > necessarily being the sort of people who want to sleep on couches, eat > ramen and receive their compensation in founder equity for an > unspecified period. Many people are somewhere between that and wanting > to work for BigCo and are probably more likely to join the startup > ecosystem after some time in the middle ground... > > Geoff. > > On Feb 1, 12:28 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/... >> >> 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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