Find a Job: Venture Capital Backed Startups

A few days ago, we highlighted StartUpHire.com, a website where you can find a job with a venture capital backed startup company. If you want to enter the startup world, this is a fantastic resource.

For venture capital backed startups, StartUpHire.com makes posting a job easy. By posting the jobs to such a niche job search website, the results are sure to be better than a traditional option.

To learn more about StartUpHire.com, I interviewed co-founder Steve Fredrick, who is also a General Partner at Grotech Ventures.

Stephen Kersey: Can you tell us a little bit about StartUpHire.com? What types of jobs are available for those who want to enter the startup world?

Steve Fredrick: The StartUpHire mission is to connect talented individuals to exciting career opportunities at venture backed companies and to accelerate the team building process for these companies and their investors. These are tremendously exciting opportunities, but they historically have been difficult to identify. Professionals can now leverage StartUpHire to search thousands of opportunities at thousands of venture backed companies and can elect to be notified by email of new jobs matching a user-defined criteria. The underlying job descriptions indicate that skill levels for these new jobs span the entire spectrum from machinist to nursing to sales to engineering to cancer research, etc. It is really quite impressive.

SK: What would you tell someone who is worried about joining a startup? What are the pros and cons compared to a non-startup job?

SF: Startup companies are often demanding in terms of time and work required, but now might be the best time to consider one – as any startup that can survive and thrive in recessionary times has a good chance of success once the economy recovers. And startups, more than established companies, offer opportunities for employees to make serious money in the long term through stock options. Employment at a venture backed startups is every bit as stable as that of large companies in this climate. They don’t all make it, but you at least see it coming…

SK: StartUpHire.com launched the search engine a few months ago. Are you happy with this addition to the website?

SF: The reception and response has been tremendous. StartUpHire has clearly filled a long standing void, and we look forward to serving the entrepreneurial community.

SK: For a startup company that wants to post a job listing on StartUpHire.com, can you explain the process? What are the requirements?

SF: Posting jobs on StartUpHire is currently restricted to venture capital backed companies. Companies sign-up at StartUpHire.com. We verify their venture backed status, and they then receive access to a set of Employer tabs. Posting a job is quick and simple, perhaps 2-3 minutes. Companies can also deploy a free StartUpHire widget on their own website to display these same jobs in that setting if they do not already.

SK: Going forward, what are the long-term goals for StartUpHire.com?

SF: This initiative was established to serve a defined community of emerging growth companies, the investors who fund them, and the professionals who seek them out for employment. We’ll look to continue enhancing the platform to serve this constituency and will ultimately measure our success by how well we do so.

Find a Job (Image: StartUpHire.com)