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Developers, talk to a VC before a recruitment agency

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Couldn't agree more. I work at Thomvest Ventures and almost every portfolio company we have is hiring (a few additional aren't listed because they are in stealth but are about to go into ramp mode). Have quite a few friends working on funded startups who are looking to hire as well.

If you know the type of work you want to do, have a list of some of the stuff you have coded/what languages you know, and/or are interested in a specific company we have feel free to shoot me an email and I will try to help out (info is on Nathan's blog).

This is a really good point. Also - as a startup, we typically got better candidates who came through our investors. Certain type of candidate was the one that knew where to look.

If you're in Los Angeles / SoCal - talk to Mark Suster at GRP Ventures. He's communicated that just about everyone in his portfolio is hiring.

Just make sure you've never left a job in under 10 years, even if you got an enormous raise or your boss was an ass or you got a much better situation out of it. In fact, you should be willing to tolerate a shit situation and lower pay for years just to prove your loyalty.

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/04/22/never-hire-job...

ps -- make sure never to look out for #1 -- that's for companies, not you, silly employee

Great article. We're currently looking for developers in the Ottawa/Montreal area in python if anyone wants to drop me a line!

The other hidden benefit to this is that VCs are usually the only way for stealth mode companies to be hiring.

Some Israeli VCs I know, actually have in-house recruitment agency.

Google Ventures has this too.

Having looked at their portfolio, I'd be interested in talking to their in in-house recruitment agency. Do you know how someone could go about contacting them?

This is all public but I don't really have any close personal connections that lead to her.

http://twitter.com/#!/lgrenawalt http://www.linkedin.com/in/lindsaygrenawalt

I've updated the post with a contact at Google Ventures.

This makes something like Mixtent.com more valuable...since you now have people vouching for developers/companies, you could probably do the same thing for places to work.

if i were acquainted with a VC ... :)

hi Vlad!

hi! to you too

that way i know a bunch of VC :) Even my VC-handshaking friends after founding/CTOing several startups, still so far ended up like me - architectors or principal level engineers in established companies.

Well I guess that is more job security depending on what you want. You can always go back to doing startups, plus you will know a bunch of other engineers who may hop on board with you.

hi hurricane!

whats up jefe!

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