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The Talent Problem Isn’t Solving Itself, Here’s One Startup’s Campaign to Help By Erin Griffith On July 10, 2012 Everyone has some sort of twist on the startup recruiting problem. VCs have elaborate programs and networks of talent they offer their portfolio companies. Meanwhile companies go to desperate lengths to attract talent with over-the-top perks and big equity stakes. Coders, developers, and designers are in high demand; a startup’s success or failure depends on its ability to sop up talent. And yet! Roberson says the problem is actually exacerbated by the poor economy, because startups are viewed as risky. This is why his company is campaigning all summer to fill 10,000 startup jobs by November. The idea is that the more noise startups make about jobs, the more attention, legitimacy, and hopefully talent, they will attract. In some ways the idea of turning economic growth into a “cause” is a little unsavory to me. But that’s why I like StartUpHire’s approach. It’s an extension of the efforts of StartUpHire itself.
Stop Looking For A Technical Co-founder Editor’s Note: Alexey Komissarouk is a CS senior at the University of Pennsylvania and founder of the PennApps Hackathon. This article is based on an earlier talk to the Wharton MBA Entrepreneurship Club. “How many of you want to start a company?” David Tisch asked. All hundred hands went up. “Keep your hand up if you are technical.” “Keep your hand up if you are looking for co-founders.” Most quality software engineers today have offers of amazing work environments and 6-figure salaries from the likes of Google and Facebook. Your odds are bad. Focus on building your company instead. 1) Learn to code Pre-dodgeball I went thru 3-4 years thinking I was going to meet some magical engineer who would build all the stuff I was thinking about. [...] – Dennis Crowley, Foursquare Pick up coding. Really don’t want to learn to code? 2) Hire an external team. In the fall of 2004, Rose withdrew $1,000 — nearly one-tenth of his life savings — and paid a freelance coder $12 an hour to mock up a Web page.