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Andrew Ferenci is the 24 year old co-founder of Spinback, a social commerce platform for retailers. Now part of Buddy Media.

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The same Facebook advertisement has been showing up on my profile for the past 2 weeks with a cartoon figure and the words WORK IN A START-UP. I was intrigued so I clicked and was directed to this interesting new site called startupers.com, an open job board and community for start-ups and job seekers. The site is actually very interesting. WHY? Because its the first site that’s rather informal and also very transparent in providing more open employee information. Also, Startupers randomly posts Funny or Die videos from “Between two Ferns”  on user pages (a personal favorite). Users can also openly post their full resume for download and also link all their social accounts with the option of embedding their twitter feed and profile pictures into their profile. This is all very beneficial for start-ups looking to hire employees and finding co-founders rather than posting and paying for expensive lists on Crunchboard and 37Signals. I think Startupers.com is onto something here in that we need an informal and more socially-connected job site for start-up seekers and start-ups looking to hire real talent. Imagine a job site where you could freely start a meebo-style toolbar chat with all the registered users on the site and connect start-ups and rockstars instantly. The process is very relative as I have been looking for employees/partners in my newest venture (btw….if you’re a java+spring developer in nyc, please email me :) ) I am finding that informal-style hiring is what most do and find most effective. It’s all about dating before you get married. Startupers does need some minor functionality improvements like segmenting users geographically and a meebo-style chat feature but they are definitely on to something…

The same Facebook advertisement has been showing up on my profile for the past 2 weeks with a cartoon figure and the words WORK IN A START-UP.
I was intrigued so I clicked and was directed to this interesting new site called startupers.com, an open job board and community for start-ups and job seekers.

The site is actually very interesting. WHY? Because its the first site that’s rather informal and also very transparent in providing more open employee information. Also, Startupers randomly posts Funny or Die videos from “Between two Ferns”  on user pages (a personal favorite). Users can also openly post their full resume for download and also link all their social accounts with the option of embedding their twitter feed and profile pictures into their profile. This is all very beneficial for start-ups looking to hire employees and finding co-founders rather than posting and paying for expensive lists on Crunchboard and 37Signals.

I think Startupers.com is onto something here in that we need an informal and more socially-connected job site for start-up seekers and start-ups looking to hire real talent. Imagine a job site where you could freely start a meebo-style toolbar chat with all the registered users on the site and connect start-ups and rockstars instantly.

The process is very relative as I have been looking for employees/partners in my newest venture (btw….if you’re a java+spring developer in nyc, please email me :) ) I am finding that informal-style hiring is what most do and find most effective. It’s all about dating before you get married.

Startupers does need some minor functionality improvements like segmenting users geographically and a meebo-style chat feature but they are definitely on to something…

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