Awesome to see this up and running, congrats Elias and crew. I tried a similar project: snowballer.com.au, but wasn't as connected into the community and had trouble securing enough listings to make it cool.
I did a little MVP, ran it for a while, got some good listings to start with but didn't persist with it when listings became sparse. Got a bit disheartened and was juggling to many other projects to stick at it. BUT, really glad to see the ball's been picked up as it's a much needed initiative. This a slicker and nicer site than we built too and there's a ready made community behind it. It'll be a great asset for the startup community :) On Jul 21, 9:20 pm, Andrew Dowling <[email protected]> wrote: > My 2c on the recruiter question: I'm in favour of leaving it open to > recruiters, as long as we apply some common sense moderation to posts > in general. In theory the board is there to help serve and foster the > start-up community (if not, we'd have to ask ourselves why we're doing > it -- there are plenty of jobs boards out there already). > > I've seen plenty of examples where "focused" jobs boards get totally > swamped by ads posted by unscrupulous recruiters who are happy to > advertise anywhere there is a free job board available. Some of the > offshore firms are notorious in this regard. > > Any kind of role could find its way onto the SB board -- anything from > part-time bookkeeper through to C-level positions -- so it's the type > of company which is going to define what's suitable and what's not. > I'd expect this could include: > - Companies which are inarguably start-ups (incubation / seed / > growth / etc) > - Companies which were start-ups not so long ago but have now grown > up > - Companies which support startups > - Companies which service startups (perhaps ... a boutique advisory > firm who might specialize in the startup area?) > - Individuals > - and more > > Entrepreneurship is such a broad space that the rules need to be > reasonably loose. As long as they're coupled with a modicum of common > sense we'll be OK. > > Andrew.www.tapestry.net > > On Jul 20, 8:58 pm, Avis M <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Judd, Elias, I'm with you - no need to fend off recruiters. Surely the > > more relevant jobs up there for our community the better. > > > Tristan, great idea as there's huge demand for internships. However > > there is an option to filter by "internship" up there already so I > > think the best route forward would be to keep building the brand & > > attracting potential interns/employers to this site....once > > internships are complete, then they use the same site to find their > > job with the hottest up & coming startups out there ;) No better way > > to build brand awareness! > > > Elias...if you're still looking at someone to help with rebranding/ > > logo redesign, let me know. > > > Cheers > > Avis > > Co-founder of mmMule.com > > > On Jul 20, 3:31 am, Tristan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Great work to everyone involved. A very useful service and really > > > nice interface. > > > > You should take this and set up a tech internship website. I looked > > > around for one and couldn't find one that just did summer internships > > > with a nice interface. This one would be perfect. > > > > t > > > > On Jul 17, 4:32 pm, Elias Bizannes <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > We now have a jobs service on the Silicon Beach website > > > > (http://siliconbeachaustralia.org/jobs), that is as free as the air to > > > > use. > > > > > We've been road-testing it and we like it -- we hope you do to. Any > > > > feedback > > > > is welcome and we will evolve this over time. I've refreshed the > > > > database > > > > for a mostly clean start, so we will be relying on community feedback > > > > and > > > > usage to build out the ontologies (but hopefully not much else is > > > > needed to > > > > make this ready to use). > > > > > Its built on Wordpress MU for the specific reason that this will be a > > > > platform to enable us to build out the site further. Three things I'm > > > > eyeing > > > > on next include Buddypress (for link sharing), a Q&A service (so we can > > > > better curate knowledge from this mailing list and reduce its volume), > > > > and > > > > Google account integrations (to integrate it with the forum). Other > > > > things I > > > > am thinking about is a brand refresh on the logo which is now being used > > > > more and is time for something smarter, as well doing something useful > > > > other > > > > than a redirect with the siliconbeach.org domain (which I > > > > opportunistically > > > > negotiated to buy only in this last year). > > > > > A huge thanks to Victor Tsen from Perth who did some great tweaks on the > > > > software. I also want to thank Alexander Levashov, Andrew Dowling, Khee > > > > Seng's and Matthew Ho for their comments during the testing. > > > > > Elias Bizanneshttp://eliasbizannes.com > > > > *Coming to a freeway near you:*http://startupbus.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Visting http://siliconbeachaustralia.org for more Forum rules 1) No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. 2) No jobs postings. You can use http://siliconbeachaustralia.org/jobs To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en
