We have been getting a lot of tips lately about startups we need to check out. Today we receive a nice comment to check our Startup Hire a new job board for venture backed startups.
Startup Hire is a very simple job board in which focuses on venture backed startups and allows users to search for jobs either via location, keyword, job title or company. Startup Hire has partnered with some of the leading startup companies so you are bound to find a huge amount of jobs in a variety of areas. This is a great place to start if you are looking for a secure job that has full backing by venture capitalists. However, please remember that venture backed startups arent always 100% secure.
TechCrunch has been a well known site for everything tech and media related. With millions of readers and followers, TechCrunch has done an amazing job in helping young fledgling startups get noticed. What began as TechCrunch 20, then 40, and now 50, it looks to once again be the opportunity that every startup is waiting for.
In just under a week the San Francisco Design Center Concourse will be transformed into a showcase floor for entrepreneurs, new technology, and VC’s looking for the “next big thing.” The DemoPit, where all the magic happens. Paired with this display are panels of speakers who will share their thoughts and expertise with the attendees, expected to be over 900 this year alone.
The event gives the startups an opportunity to share, explain, and possibly have their ideas funded. Companies have a high chance of being launched at this event, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Thanks to all the sponsors who help support and foster an event where these startups can find growth and a possible future!
Keep track of this event, and check back here for some of the highlights of the event.
Back in early November of last year, I preempted the launch of Spottt. Spottt is a free link exchange between sites via a 125 x 125 widget. Spottt is developed by the guys over at Adbrite, so they have a product that needs to work and actually launch into something worthwhile. Since Adbrite has had a lot of VC Funding, they will be really expected to not just launch a product for the sake of it, and actually turn it into a commercial entity.
This brings me to the all important point, is Spottt actually going anywhere? Currently, the site is so simplistic and has a lot of competitors doing exactly the same thing. So where is it unique selling point? If I was the VC in Adbrite who put in a slice of the money, then I would expect an out strategy for Spottt and within a year or two at the most. Will this actually happen? and what features are really missing from Spottt or sites like Spottt?
In the last 6 to 12 months i have heard a lot of talk about the website, TheFunded. I have seen the site all over the blogosphere and on the BBC, but i really dont understand why.
The site lets entrepreneurs rate and comment about venture capitalists, has drawn a lot of attention from folks eager to learn salacious gossip about bad VCs. It has been reported by Venturebeat that TheFunded has been removing posted comments about VCs for more favourable ones.
This all being said after looking through TheFunded more indepth, it really doesnt seem to be a great deal of people actually using the site. It seems to have 6,000 or so members and crap all is actually happening in terms of activity. The site to me seems like an interesting place to go and read up on your possible VCs, however im sure if someone was going to take 10% of my company i would do a lot more research than just looking at this site. If that is the case what is the point of the site when it tells you all basic information about the VCs that can be found in other places and then gives you a rating of the VCs for only a very very limited amount of users who actually use the site?
Michael Arrington over at Techcrunch has post a very interesting article today about PayPerPost and how they reacted to a rejection by a potential employee and also how they are not happy with Arrington at all.
A couple of weeks ago Arrington wrote a post about how PayPerPost CEO Ted Murphy took all employees on an all-expenses-paid offside to Club Med, where they got drunk, inexplicably dressed up as Native Americans (complete with red face paint) and then posted video of the whole racially offensive episode on the web. Normally I like to head out and get quite drunk with a few friends, but on company money and then acting innappropriately, not the best idea for a company that needs to base itself around a very professional image.
Now it is reported that PayPerPost have been very unprofessional towards a potential employee. I am not going to go into all the details, but they can be found on Techcrunch.
An interesting twist however to the whole story is that PayPerPost seem to have turned nasty now on Arrington. One of the PayPerPost VC’s, John Stein at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, has been pitching bloggers to write post saying Techcrunch has gone too far with his criticisms. PayPerPost think they are a very real threat to Techcrunch but I think this cant be further from the truth. Techcrunch as far as Im aware doesnt receive payments for reviews, but this is the key principle behind PayPerPost.
If someone from PayPerPost does read this article I would really like to know how they think they might be a real threat to Techcrunch and their key fundamental business!
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