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For all you guys targeting startups, do you have a recommended location for finding them? There are plenty of amazing startups around that I have never heard of. I feel like I just don't have the time to keep up or am unaware of some magic resource that some of you must have.

I am mostly curious about companies specific to the bay area but a larger scope would certainly be welcome.

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Pro-tip: check out Crunchbase (http://www.crunchbase.com), and look through all the recently funded companies (http://www.crunchbase.com/funding-rounds?page=1). These are startups that are pretty much all hiring-- one of the primary reasons startups raise money is to ramp up their team and scale growth.

If you are involved in the startup scene (attend meetups, read HN, have other friends involved in startups, etc) you soon know what startups are around.

If the Internet is just "Facebook" + "Google" to you then, sure you're missing out but by just posting to HN I'm guessing that isn't your world.

If you mean super early startups (and be mindful that there are plenty of reasons not to be the first employee at an unfunded/newly funded startup) then Angel List is probably the "magic resource" you are aspiring for.

Tech meetups are a goldmine if you're interested in startups. Maybe you won't find employees from the startup itself there but if you interested in say, erlang, and go to an erlang meetup you can very easily ask people there if they've heard of any interesting erlang startups. You'll probably find some people who will say something along the lines of oh yeah, I recently heard about company x who's doing y, it sounds pretty interesting actually.

Then you can do some research on company x and try to get in touch with someone there.

Great advice guys. Thanks a million.

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