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My fav part of this is when the Airbnb founder says he didn't start the company for money. I think we've all heard the story by now about how desperate they were to make money.

That's how you continue making more money, just claim it's not about the money.

It's more accurate to say that now that he has as much money as he can spend (he can cash out multiple $m's in a financing round whenever he wants) that he doesn't need 10 times that right now.

I got my last job at a startup by emailing the startup's info@ email address the following (searched my email for the exact copy):

Are you guys hiring devs for threadbox? I'm a web dev/software engineer in Palo Alto - couldn't find a jobs section on your site, but I have done some interesting work in the email space and I think there are a lot of opportunities there - let me know if we can get together.

Best,

V---- N----

@v----

I think reaching out personally can work very well for small companies. I had sent this email the day after I had read on TechCrunch that they had raised funding.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained! (not that I follow that advice myself)

I've actually received quiet a few interviews through cold calls to start ups, probably because there is someone on the other side listening.

Wait, if you launched Threadbox why are you asking to be hired for it? I don't understand.

They had announced funding when I was hired, but the product had not been developed or launched yet.

Oh, hmm, from your profile I understood that you were a (sole) founder, sorry about the confusion.

The first person to buy a domain and get it in front of the founders = hired The next 100 = annoying & stalker-ish

Some solid tidbits in there too though

What horrible advice. Yes, stalk the founders to get a job.

and blog about it ;-)

IMO, this kind of stuff is creative and cool... until it gets reduced to a formula.

Not too sure whether this is the right way to attract talents; most talents can have their pick of work and they don't need to beg a startup founder to hire them. Only those who are desperate enough need to resort to this kind of tricks.

I know quite a few desperate, amazingly talented folks. :)

I'm based in Malaysia, but I can't seem to find them.

I know of at least one case where a person tried this and did not end up getting hired at the startup mentioned.

This Post hits all of the keywords.. StartUp, OpenSourced, Infiltrate a bit of a turn-off ...seems to be a trend on HN to have such a post nowadays

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Sigh. It was related to the article!

Sorry.

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