Start ups are kind of like volcanoes in the sense that they might be dormant for a little while and
then all of a sudden have explosive growth.
This growth is often attached to funding for these startups so startups might receive a big round of
funding and then hire like 40 people within six months.
And these are huge opportunities for job hunters.
So in this model we're going to talk about hacking the startup job search.
The first thing that you can do to have the search is to set yourself some Google alerts about startup
funding in your community and also start monitoring business news sources for that same information.
As soon as you see that a startup has received a big wave of funding you're going to want to start connecting
with them on LinkedIn maybe checking out their product maybe trying to go and meet them off line or
check out their product demonstrations.
All those things will help you start to connect with them at the right time.
There are also startups specific job boards you can find with just a little bit of googling and any
time that you can get involved in the investor community by attending Angel networking events or other
venture capital related events these venture capitalists know about the funding for startups and they
can give you leads on startups that might be hiring.
And one hack that a user name Rohit in Cupertino told us is that when he sees that a startup has received
a big round of funding he actually starts to use their product or service a little bit and start to
maybe even give that team feedback via Twitter or linked in or via their customer service e-mail.
Teams are very interested about what the users think of their products and these relationships might
be the basis for a job opportunity later down the line.
So let's take John for example if John is looking for a startup opportunity in the Bay Area he might
first set himself a Google alert about startup funding in this area and when he sees that a startup
has received funding he might go and follow the company on their social media accounts maybe make a
couple of connections on LinkedIn and then he might go and test their product and even submit some feedback
to them on how they can improve their product or what he experienced by using their product.
Again these relationships might lead to an opportunity for John.