What is Reddit's opinion of
AngelList?
From 3.5 billion Reddit comments
➔ AngelList website
By popularity on Reddit, this Service is:
67 reviews of this app found across Reddit:
Buscando trabajo en páginas de empresas que quisieran empleados extranjeros y pagaran los trámites de la visa.
En especial este jale lo encontré en Jobbatical y apliqué directamente de la página de la empresa. Pero antes de eso conseguí varias entrevistas en Hong Kong y Shanghai gracias a LinkedIn y AngelList.
Heya, try this: http://angel.co/
I threw up a quick "about me" one late autumn, forgot about it, then got a request for coffee some months later. That meeting turned into a cascading series of events that have defined my startup experience to date, plus spun off a whole bunch of good things for the day job and side projects.
YMMV :)
I know I'm going to get downvoted for this, but I'm genuinely shocked at how many people post in this subreddit when a quick google would answer their question. If you google any variation of "how to find startup jobs," you'll get a ton of resources, and http://angel.co/jobs is going to be at, or near, the top of your results every time.
$40k is absurdly low for NYC unless you're getting significant equity. Something in the ballpark of $60-100k + equity is more reasonable.
Check out angel.co. There are tons of startup jobs on there and most of the job postings have salary ranges listed. It'll give you a rough idea of what to expect.
There's also Hired and AngelList. Were you able to try traditional sites like LinkedIn as well?
I sent over 300 applications to get a job, and I was fortunate enough to get a bunch of interviews. Basically, full-time job hunting is a full-time job in and of itself. I spent upwards of 12 hours a day writing e-mails to recruiters, tweaking my resume, doing some quick coding problems to brush up for interviews, and looking for new jobs to apply to.
Are you absolutely hell-bent on working where you live now? I found it was hard to find a job back home in Toronto, since a lot of them were pretty sub-par in pay (think $11/hr CAD, which is about what you make now), so I moved across the continent to work in Seattle.
If you're willing to loosen your constraints, I'm sure you'll find something.
EDIT: Now that you've posted your resume, it's time to get cracking.
You've posted some cool projects, but they're way too wordy. If I was a recruiter, I would have already passed over your resume in favour of anyone else's that didn't have so much content on it, or at least a better summary of what you learned & what was done.
The point of a resume isn't just to list credentials. If you're able to do so in a succinct, concise manner, you'll get a lot more interviews than the next chap who thought it was a great idea listing out every single accomplishment in his life.
EDIT2: Whenever I get time I'll de-anonymize the resume that landed me interviews at all of the big-four companies, and possibly my LinkedIn, with a bunch of things removed.
There's a list somewhere that I'll grab if I can find it. You can also find some smaller up-and-coming startups on AngelList
E: The list, complete with ballpark monthly salaries
Quora $8250/month + $1500 housing
Palantir: $7500 + housing
Pinterest: $7500 + $1.5k/month housing
Upthere: $6400/mo + $900/mo housing
Jane Street: $10,400/month
Dropbox: $8.5 salary + $5 housing stipend or provided housing (it is nice)
Google: $7000/month Housing Stipend: “I think 9K?”
Square: $7500/mo + $1500/mo housing (Doctorate Student Internship)
LinkedIn: $44/hour (around $7600/month) + 5k relocation (one time)
Amazon Seattle: $6k salary + $2.5 per month housing ($8500)
Amazon SF: $7.5k salary + $3500/month
Fitbit SF: $9.3k/month
Edmodo: $7k/month
Apple: $6k and $3.5k per month housing ($9500)
Coursera KPCB: $7000/month and housing $1000/month + Macbook Pro
Facebook: $6.8k/mo (return) and housing: $1k/mo or corp housing
Foursquare NY: $6000/month and housing: $5k stipend
Microsoft Seattle: $7.5/mo + Housing $2.5k + $5k returning intern bonus
Zynga: $8k/mo
I don't think it's a poor deal, it's an incredibly bad deal. If you've been working for a year, with 3 people (as I understand it) and you're taking in an investment of $100k for 25% equity this means (in a very broad and non-technical way):
- Your company will have a $400k post-money valuation (that's low even for angel funding)
- Each person amounted to ~$133k 'value' over the course of a year (which is extremely low)
- This value includes any investment you have done yourselves so take that out
- Deduct the pay you've given out for the work performed and you've got almost nothing
Please please please find another angel. Go list on http://angel.co and harass everyone but don't take this deal. Especially if you're changing it like you said.
SnowShoe is a startup founded in Madison but now with offices in both Madison and SF. We make magical bits of plastic. We're hiring a full stack developer. The full listing is viewable on our Angel List page.
If you're looking to find investors I recommend AngelList. You can find angel investors who have invested in ideas in the same field as yours or who have experience similar to what you're looking for. By creating a page for your business and putting the proper tags on it, they can find you too.
Before doing all that though, make sure that having investors is really what your business needs. For some businesses it's necessary, but for others you can do a lot better bootstrapping your idea for a long time. Most investors won't even invest at the point you just described. They will want to see a working prototype with some user traction before they will give you any money.
> The stupidest thing an otherwise smart person can do is sign up for Mensa.
Not necessarily. I joined to try to meet people that would help me get a job. I ended up getting a job via a different route (Angel List, http://angel.co if anyone's curious) but I briefly mentioned Mensa on my resume, and that may have helped. Who knows?
Search for calendar for tech events and startup events. Find coworking spaces for tech startups, do all the networking stuff there. That should get you connected, and from there find more. Also check http://angel.co/ and http://www.crunchbase.com/ they have a db of startups, and you can filter by location.
Social anything, aggregating sites, apps masquerading as startups but mostly shit like this which CLEARLY is going to be a niche product (at best) and has co-dependencies on everything from battery capacity to internet infrastructure.
Sounds like you have a culture issue, which is common and can be fixed with a bit of effort. You have to figure out exactly what it was about that company that you loved, and then begin applying to companies that have a similar mindset.
Before you proceed, set out your job search parameters. What is a must have? What can you do without? What are you willing to sacrifice? What is nice to have but not mandatory? Answer these questions for things like company size, team size, chain of command, salary, benefits, perks, job title, degree of responsibility, etc... This will help you profile yourself and the type of workplace that best suits you.
When you're applying, you have to do your research. It sounds to me like an MSP is not the right environment for you. You want more responsibility and less red tape. You want a more close-knit relationship rather than a corporate structured environment.
Take a look at tech startups. You sound like you have all the skills you need, and you have a similar drive, which may be a good fit. Look at Angel List or VentureLoop to find job listings. And before you apply, do your research. Find out about the companies on their blogs, social media, news sites - the whole internet is your source - to make sure they are a right fit for you.
Average funding seems off for some reason. Mucker Lab has a very well respected program, but the avg seems quite high. Same gut check for others as well.
May I suggest adding a column for avg valuation @ seed via pulling data from http://angel.co/valuations
Also, average pre-money valuation, and average valuation @ seed funding is a decent metric to track.
Other metrics I'd be interested in would be 12 and 24 month survival rates for startups coming from selected programs.
Depends on the size of the company you're most interested in. Larger tech companies usually finalize summer hires by Jan/Feb/Mar, but they always do a year-round hire. Smaller companies, particularly startups, hire on an as-needed basis (I strongly recommend AngelList for this). As such, they get back to you really fast, within a few weeks.
So, to answer you directly. Apply now for larger companies, apply in April/May for smaller ones. That's probably the range for most companies small to large, but that's just from my experience and what I've seen friends go through.
I am generally interested in marketplaces. Some consumer products but hesitantly (I love product but I think it is harder to succeed.) some stuff is listed at http://angel.co/joshu
I am not a giant fan of accelerators. Build your thing and ship. Figure out your market and get going.
Business Development is just a buzzword for a Marketing/Account Manager/Sales type role. Usually they are a mix of the 3 depending on the startups needs.
You can try AngelList for startup jobs, or HackerNews job postings. Other buzzword titles: Growth Hacker or Sales Hacker.
Name/url: SnowShoe (http://snow.sh)
Elevator Pitch: Make Magic with a touch of plastic. SnowShoe Stamps are small pieces of plastic with secret digital identities. They have no batteries, no power, no circuitry, no antenna, and no moving parts. They cost just cents to manufacture, yet they fill an incredibly painful void for anyone trying to blur the boundaries between our digital and physical worlds. SnowShoe stamps let game developers bring physical:digital experiences (e.g. skylanders) to mobile platforms. At the same time, they have been used as a physical factor of authentication for user log-in and POS transactions. Stamps work with all multi-touch mobile devices, and our software can be integrated into a project in mere minutes.
More Details: Graduated TechStars Boulder 2013, Raised $1.3MM to date. Team of 3 located in Madison, WI and SF, CA.
What We Are Looking For: Hiring full stack python Developers (http://angel.co/snowshoe-stamp)
Discount: Order a FREE developer/demo kit at http://snow.sh
No problem! I'm sorry I don't have any experience with moving to Europe other than failing to do it, but I wanted to share that I had interviews with European companies and it seems iOS devs are always needed. So I'm pretty sure you can find something! You can look for jobs on LinkedIn, but apply directly from the company's careers page, I've encountered that that gives you more leads than just using LinkedIn. You could also look into AngelList.
My gf and I decided we wanted to move out of China and our first choice was Europe, but after doing a ton of research salaries are way better in the US than any European countries, and the cost of living is not that different, we decided to move to the US for a couple of years to save some money and then probably move somewhere else, we were especially looking into Spain and France.
Right now I'm working remotely from my hometown in Northern Mexico and just waiting for all of this to happen to move to NYC, but who knows when that's going to happen.
If you are not planning to do the move just yet, my recommendation is to find a job where you will use Combine and/or SwiftUI, those openings are scarce but since it's a new framework, companies are a little bit more flexible with who they hire. If you work for 2-3 years you'll gain a ton of experience in a framework that will definitely become more popular in production apps in the coming years, and thus making your profile more attractive to any company. That's exactly what I'm doing right now!
Looking for an internship before starting final year of CSE :-
Skillset/experience: C, Java, full-stack web (HTML, CSS, LAMP, MEAN & more) Portfolio: http://angel.co/ayushagrawal Location : Bangalore, NCR, Mumbai, Jaipur Preferred way of contacting you: PM or email (given in portfolio)
Well, my company has spread across the globe, I'm on the payroll, and we're most definitely a startup. Same was true of my last company. Heck, most startup jobs on Angel List are paid positions. By your definition, a "funded startup" would be an oxymoron, which seems nonsensical to me.
On the other hand, I do agree that Uber isn't as "startup"-y as it was back in its earlier days. They have a clearly defined business model, path to profitability (note: they're not currently profitable), and they're focusing more on growth/increasing market share (note: they hit $5B in net revenue last year, definitely not a small business).
I do agree with this article that I just found that tries to flesh out a definition.
I'm just going to keep plugging http://angel.co until other people start recommending in it in this subreddit. Hundreds of startups and you can introduce yourself to an employer if you both end up being a match.
Off the top of my head it sounds like you could get a job. When I interview I make my decision based on perceived capability, you definitely get a thumbs up in my opinion.
- Open source contributor, check.
- Can demonstrate (via GitHub) proficiency in CS fundamentals, check.
- Understanding and working knowledge of a major MVC framework, check.
I don't know if you're just in a bad geographical area for programming, or what, but maybe try looking at some remote jobs?
http://angel.co is a great resource
(Edit: Dude you can put wger.de on your resume. Great, seemingly polished app. Use that shit.)
> How many of them require only swift? I'll help you here, 0.
I help you here
- Swift: 443 startups
- Objective-C: 797 startups
It is probably true that of those 443 startups that mention Swift quite a lot don't put it as a hard requirement and always expect you to know Objective-C, but it does show that you have a major market advantage if you're able to show that you have Swift experience.
It's really helpful to be able to show in such a dynamic market as iOS (yesterday's iOS 9 marketshare < 1%, end of the month ~40%) that you're a person that embraces change and new technologies.
Also the chance you'll be working on new code is much bigger when you will be hired because you know Swift simply because there is not so much Swift code around yet to maintain.
My advice: learn both. You need to understand 3rd party frameworks written in Objective-C, tutorials or Stack Overflow solutions written in Objective-C or simply change a little bit in existing code. But just enough to get along. My expectation is that within a year very few new projects will be started in Objective-C.
It's more common sense than conventional wisdom. Yes, some small companies will use the "we're a startup" cop to not pay you much and expect long hours out of you. If you're smart, you can vet those employers pretty quickly. They don't deserve good employees anyhow. If you aren't, you might not have as much choice in employment as you may feel you do. I'm using the universal "you", not you personally, BTW.
If you have a tech/sales/data/science/marketing (real actual marketing, not posting on twitter and instagram) et cetera background startups can and should be 9 billion times more fulfilling than a corporate/fortune 500 type gig.
I know a few folks who have had success on Hired, and I'm currently trying it out next week. Here's my referral link (or it's just hired.com if you prefer the non-referral variety).
I've also heard great things about AngelList for Ruby devs looking for startups.
Feel free to orangered me if you have any questions about either. If by some stretch you live in or are willing to relocated to North Carolina, I could hook you up locally as well.
(No, I'm not a recruiter. Just a rubydev.)
I'm not sure about NYC (though I assume it's a pretty similar situation), but in the bay area you can usually make 80-120k in a paid internship or junior level position. If you are excited about the field, and have a good CS foundation, you can start there. If you don't think you're qualified, I would suggest taking on as many projects as a freelancer as you need to pay rent (be careful to account for taxes, which come out to 40-50% of your income, and as a freelancer you'll need to pay yourself)
Check out angel list and filter by area, role, and compensation to get a feel for the market. I'd suggest applying to a few jobs, you have nothing to lose and at the very least you'll learn what you have left to learn before going full time.
My company is NarrativeDx (http://angel.co/NarrativeDx). We help hospitals learn from unstructured patient feedback to improve care and maximize reimbursements.
We've got some great nation-leading hospitals such as U Penn and NYU as our early adopter clients. They love what we help them do. I'm happy to chat more at
Thanks!
Have you considered using Angellist (http://angel.co)?
They have syndicates that make it super easy to invest as little as $1k in many startups.
(Source: Angellist is how we raised money for our company)
SalesZip
- Sales as a service
- Thirty Five tech start-ups as customers, growing at a fast pace
- Monthly runrate $20K, profitable from day one
Contact Rahul at
Yes. It took seven years. Here's a list of some of the stuff: http://angel.co/joshu
I used look for markets and networks which weren't possible before modern communications technology. I think this is changing now, and I have started looking for other things. Not sure what; I will have to start over as I learn new spaces. I am paying attention to deep technical challenges especially around infrastructure, data, and control systems (as I have a bunch of practical experience in those areas.
I would highly recommend job hopping for the first few years so you can gain a range of experience in different companies and find what works for you.
I didn't do this, and now I find myself in a bit of a niche market, wanting to move into large scale Python web apps, but no portfolio to demonstrate as all of my stuff has been internal.
Salaries definitely don't cap at 80k if you are doing serious software engineering. Check out some of the postings on http://angel.co for an idea of what you can do.
Cleber,
I would start here at Reddit, for example but that you already did.
Try also:
Hope it helps.
Tell him to look for startups in your area using http://angel.co/ Describe to him what equity means and how much money he can make if his company goes big! Whether or not this is true, it may get him excited about fast cars and super yachts
- Angel List is a useful social network for entrepreneur in tech and angel investors.
- Venture capital Fred Wilson does some amazing posts on Mondays called MBA Mondays.
- Venture Hacks provides some great business info, especially if you want to get venture funding at some point.
Well you do now. :) Tweet me @putorti or send me a note through Quora.
It's tough though with zero personal connections, I'd advise pitching on Angellist at http://angel.co, and scheduling a trip out here to hustle. Whether it's at a conference like Lean Startup, or a weekend Startup Hackathon in SF, there's no shortage of events where you can meet people, and absorb some thinking that will help you. Subscribe to the http://startupdigest.com for SF/Silicon Valley to get a great list.
I have a little extra money that I wanted to invest in start up companies, but I don't know how. I joined Scott Trade but I don't know how to look for start ups.
I visited the site this article talks about, but it looks way too beta right now.
I think something like this needs to exist. A place where a casual investor willing to risk a grand or two can research startups and throw money at them. Then again I guess that's exactly what the stock market is supposed to be... It's just too formal and complicated and the entire notion of stocks paying dividends has been distorted and destroyed.
I'd also front money for microloans, but none of the online sites give you a piece of the interest, they keep it all for themselves.
I'm not exactly sure about the roles people get in comm or film fields initially. But you can try browsing jobs on angel.co They have startups that will offer some kind of internships.
If you're okey with unpaid, I'd advise against that, then internshala is somewhere you can look.
Other than that, try LinkedIn. Look up people in specific fields that you want to work in. Add them and drop them a message about some internship.
Hmm, vielleicht fehlen deinem Profil paar Buzzwords. Mittlerweile gibt es doch extrem viel remote.
Geh auch Mal auf Angel List. Da werden mit den Stellenausschreibungen auch die Gehaltsspanne gepostet. Denke da bekommt man ggf. eine gute Idee was Firmen in deinem Bereich zahlen.
It might be time to take the applications directly to the places that need those types of professionals. Before you start there though, your dad might find success at a startup. Check out http://angel.co/ for those.
As for companies hiring look on the job boards of all major banks, the CBC, government branches (remember there are job boards for all 3 of municipal, provincial, and federal, and all their departments), and insurance companies.
Especially re: government work, they love candidates with masters degrees. Your dad also might have more success gunning for positions he's slightly underqualified for instead of competing with younger professionals with fewer credentials for more junior roles.
Others have also mentioned looking at the resume. The name escapes me right now but there's a resume service that I think is linked to Glassdoor where they'll do a resume analysis for you for free, then you pay for "detailed info", but their original assessment is, imo, already very detailed.
It sucks but in this job market, and even pre-covid, you have to get creative in your job search. I have a sought after skill and was applying for jobs all day everyday during my unemployment in the fall and it still took me months to land something.
You could also try:
- cofounders.com - search/msg people open to being cofounders (it's flaired)
- angel.co/ - more so job postings, risk here is that a lot of cofounders are unpaid
- Linkedin - search groups for cofounders, startups, and post around there
- Virtual meet-ups - school alumni groups, startup groups, hackathon groups, etc. It was easier when you could meet in person, but it is what it is nowadays.
Just take a look at companies on http://weworkremotely.com/ http://angel.co/ and https://remoteok.io.
My friend just got a job offer after searching for one week for $160k fully remote (I also work fully remote).
startup information: http://angel.co
population information: http://worldpopulationreview.com/states/
software: QGIS (still working on learning to use and make visualizations better looking)
Start talking to recruiters, spit-shine your resume and check out http://angel.co as well as Stack Overflow's Job Board. Get your next job lined up and quit, don't wait until you quit, start looking now!
What kind of programming do you do and where are you located? I'm 24, no degree, webdev. Got my first job in 2013 when a friend hired me where I stayed for almost 2 years. I started there at 40k, then my next job was 60, then 72. After that I started taking my own freelance contracts and make between 80-100k.
Almost no one cares about a degree in this field as the school programs aren't keeping up (well, no one at the types of companies I'd actually want to work at). You'll want to jump ship about every 2 years, its the only way to get a decent pay bump. No one cares about your loyalty to the company, as they'll just as soon fire you if it makes sense for their bottom line.
I imagine you probably just need to move to a more metro area, fill out your linkedin with some good keywords of skills that companies are looking for and accept connect requests form the 1000s of recruiters that you'll get every day. check out http://angel.co as well, just be careful because most of the companies listed there wont actually pay what they say they will (they want you to work for cheap + equity on their startup, just skip those). Also, don't sell yourself short, if you're offering to work for cheap with 20 years experience, HR is probably going to wonder why.
Don't go into Reddit, looking for suitable web development jobs.
One asshole tried to get me to work for equity. Avoid equity work. It's the equivalent to 'exposure'.
It depends if you really want to get into freelancing. For me, I like dealing with clients. My question to you is, "Do you want to be a freelancer or do you want a remote job?"
There are very different because your clients will be different.
For me, I want to develop websites for different clients without end, dealing with my payment structure for them. That's freelancing.
However, if you are just looking for another web development gig or job, go to AngelList.
Just search, "Remote OK", and you can apply endlessly until you land a job immediately.
I live and work in SF, and there's tons of startups here. These startups have varying levels of success and renown: from world famous rocketships that have a reputation on par or even better than your top tier list, to small mismanaged broke ideas that will hire anyone who walks through their doors.
Between these there are tons of companies that are doing quite well and have rosy futures but not quite has the clout to attract the best talent. These companies are still usually well known enough that if you were to apply to a better company in the bay area the experience will be a positive in your resume.
Check out angelist http://angel.co/ many startups and larger companies frequently look for talent there. I found my current job there.
I work in tech, so I used AngelList to find startups in Latin America.
I also looked at some more regular job boards (like Stack Overflow) to find jobs in Europe.
And then I also told my friends that I was looking to move, and a friend introduced me to someone who had just moved to a startup in Ghana.
I don't know the specifics of your industry, but i'd imagine that there are specialist site for it
Businesses must register either within their state or another state; monitoring the Secretary of States site may be difficult. Many companies in your area may have incorporated elsewhere, like Delaware.
http://angel.co is good for finding startups seeking investors; maybe try http://www.angelcapitalassociation.org/ You'll need to be accredited.
Hate to break it to you, but if you can't figure out how to find startups ... Maybe investing isn't your bag, ya dig? Most startups fail; keep that in mind.
Do you have an mvp or prototype yet?
I've heard others have had success finding angels on http://angel.co
Personally I haven't been able to even get someone to message me back. So maybe I'm doing wrong. Another possibility is you can look at similar startups in your category that got funding, see who funded them, and then figure out how to contact that person elsewhere if they don't reply on angel.co. You can try LinkedIn, Facebook, or track down their website and guess their email address.
A lot of investors use either first name, or first letter of first name.
Don't go through recruiters. 100% of your time, it's a waste of time.
There are 4 good places to get started.
1) Angel List, http://angel.co. Fill out your profile and look around for companies that have roles you can meet and express interest. Also, other companies will contact you.
2) Look at Hacker News under the job section. http://news.ycombinator.com.
3) Craigslist. Depending on your area, Craigslist is still a great place to look for job positions. You'll want to look at internet engineers and software/qa.
4) LinkedIn. It's mainly going to be spammy recruiters trying to contact you, but you'll often get a few contacts from legit representatives at various companies. It's worth putting up your basic info.
One critical thing is to differentiate between an external recruiter and internal. Larger companies have internal recruiters as part of HR. Talk to those people. Avoid people that are "on behalf of" a company. You'll learn to tell the difference pretty quick. The biggest clue is the email address. If it's from the domain of the company, you're in the clear.
Good luck!
There's a site called AngelList that has a bunch of startup jobs. They have data science and data-related jobs that you can search through. There are the most random-ass startups on that site in every industry you can think of though. Many of them have something to do with finance.
I don't know enough about data science to give specific advice though.
I spent a year in a corporate gig and absolutely hated it; I couldn't see myself going down that path. A co-worker brought me to a local startup event and was hooked because those were the types of people I wanted to be around. Long story short, I cold-emailed the CEO of a company and got hired (my first job out of college was sales, which really taught me about hustle). Check out http://angel.co for some super interesting companies.
If you want to find specifically startups in California that are funded (i.e. have money that they can pay you with), try AngelList.
I was able to get a bunch of internship interviews as well as full-time interviews from just using the filters they have on the website. Set up a talent profile and go search!
- Do you have your CV up in Linkedin or somewhere on the internet ? You have so many replies and most have LI profiles. There is no point being anonymous when looking for a job as these people replying could add to your connections.
- How many connections do you have on LinkedIn ?
- You also mention your courses are all applied stats courses and you should have develpoed code in R,SAS, Python etc. Where is all that code ?
- Do you have a github profile.If yes, post a link to it. If you have no account create one and upload whatever you can. If you don't think you have a worthwhile project code to post on github , post the code you eveloped for your school homework
- Did you try alternative job boards like http://angel.co or http://www.indeed.com ? I am in IT development role and I was on the hiring side of equation a few times for traditional development roles like database development , business intelligence areas. I am in South Florida where there aren't as many jobs as SF Bay area. However, it takes going through atleast 10 or 15 applicants to find one good hire and thats past the first stage of filtering by recruiters.
- Did you apply 500 jobs with same resume ? If yes, its overwhelmingly obvious it isn't working. Since you did applied stats, try design of experiment methods to test your CV that gets responses and mention of that might in itself get you a job.
Best of luck.
- Learn the basics by coding up some personal projects, and putting them on github
- Get some real world experience by contributing to others' projects on github, or making stuff for friends/family
- Go on angel list, filter by role and compensation (find something on the lower end since you're applying for a junior role), and apply to a few companies
Meetups, tech mixers and other networking events can be super helpful if you're willing to put yourself out there. Also check out AngelList. That got me my first residency at a startup accelerator, which started my career.
Good Audience
Good Audience is a SaaS that allows you to build, manage and market to your social communities in a fraction of the time (user acquisition on social channels.)
- Raised money and went through Techstars
- Launched beta 8 weeks ago
- Over 800 users now and growing at a rate of over 20% week over week
- Founders are ex-Google/Yahoo and scaled platforms to over 600M users
AngelList Link (Would appreciate a follow :)
Contact
iCare - mobile crowd-fundraising and direct donations for disaster relief. We were able to onboard several thousand charities, but due to delays in monetizing, my cofounder walked. The company ground to a halt. This was a year ago, and since then, I've moved onto a different company that is experiencing some great early success.
There is a fully functional app for iPhone and Android, a REST API, the whole works. I own 100% of the IP. More info at http://angel.co/iCare or look up either app in the Google Play or Apple stores.
- Quora meets 99Designs.
- Kibitz lets anyone run their own small-scale creativity contest.
- Posting a request costs $.99, and the best answer wins the money.
- Designed for situations that are high-stakes but only require a small amount of creative work- like needing the perfect one-liner for a wedding speech, or a napkin sketch idea for a logo.
Unlike all the other Q&A platforms out there, Kibitz is a way to gather help for creative problems. Kibitz isn't for gathering information, it's a way to tap into other peoples' talent in a small way.
Looking for beta testers for our upcoming closed beta which is starting in the next week. Thanks!
Post your idea, take feedback, don't be defensive, be willing to kill what you've worked hard on - over and over, and don't invest money stupidly, your own or other's.
Here's something to get your started
+/u/dogetipbot 500 doge
Oh, they are definitely legit. Hired.com* provided for my best job search experience. They run week-long auctions in which companies browse candidates' profiles, and submit bids for compensation. When a company makes you an offer, you can choose to accept and begin the interview process with them. If you end up getting a formal offer that you accept, then hired.com will pay you a $2,000 signing bonus.
Hired.com will assign you a representative/recruiter who will help you through the process. In my experience, they were extremely professional. They're not spammy or annoying, and they'll actually give you good advice.
They generated more high-quality leads for me than any other job-search channel. AngelList was very good as well, and also advertises salaries up-front. Next up was Stack Overflow.
Funnily enough, I ended up taking a job with a company whose recruiter found me on LinkedIn. So while I can't recommend looking through LinkedIn's job postings, do make sure to pay attention to your messages. Most recruiters on there are spammy pieces of shit, but the guy that found me was actually good.
TL;DR the job market for Javascript engineers is insane right now. If you have Angular experience, you're in a very good place. Good luck, and enjoy yourself.
*Shameless referral link.
This is AngelList, nothing like Angie's list. From what I've gathered they do smaller investments, $15k and up, so it's not quite billion dollar ideas.
As far as start small goes, we have to have the completed website up to be able to start anything, and right now it appears that we need $12k (in addition to what we've already put in personally) to get it up and running.
I second the networking comment. This is the best way to get leads for your business (especially a niche business). Do as much as you can, visit universities and companies and talk to people. Try to get invited to conferences as well.
BTW: very nice website. Nice clean design. You should put it up on Angel List, perhaps a VC might be interested in investing a bit of cash in your venture...from where I sit it looks like a good idea with potential (and if someone does invest, you'll have a bit more cash to market the site).
ServerSlide is a one-of-a-kind cloud application platform seeking angel funding! Both of us are big reddit fans and we thought our company needed an account of its own.
We just updated our website and angel.co page, check it out!
I'm working on something similar but we're first focusing on the university as a community (we have a pretty extensive game plan). Feel free to read about us on http://angel.co/campus-bubble. If you want to get involved shoot me a personal email nnlevy at gmail. ;)
We found an excellent resource at http://Angel.co (.co not .com) There are about 900 angels and VCs there. You have to have a well constructed biz plan, and preferably, a working prototype. Interested parties will then contact you. They want to see a big idea, traction, "social proof" and a good team.
As far as a business plan, it's more important to show something that works than to have a big pile of statistics. I read a few places that VC were tired of 40 plus page business plans. They seem to prefer the basics of a good idea/large market, traction, strong team, and evidence of other investor interest. Kind of tricky, but doable.