Review: Startups and Venture Capital Job Searches

Working for a startup may seem like a gamble in this economy, and though looking where the Venture Capital is flowing may help you find a job, there's always the wonder if you're working for the next VentureCapitalCompleteWaste.com.  However startups also provide opportunity and following the VC is a good way to find opportunity as well – and there's two sites to help you find jobs if this sounds good to you.

VENTURELOOP.COM
First up is VentureLoop.com.  Though it provides other services to those involved in VC, for the average job seeker the big deal is the job postings.  A simple search (and search results) will yield you a decent list of jobs – though right now only by state.  The job leads look to be pretty good quality, and you get the added benefit of seeing what companies are hiring (incase you want to go the extra mile to check out their sites or look them up).  If there's a flaw its that there's not a huge selection of jobs, and the results are very obviously biased to major areas where the VC is flowing.

Simple, fast, and streamlined, this is a good addition to your regular job search sites and routine.  There's a lot of room for growth, but I think it shows promise to improve.  Its also a market that could be tapped in a more focused manner – I know I pay attention to where the VC is going, and I can't be the only person like that.

STARTUPLY.COM
Next, we have Startuply for those of you wanting to leap right into new or mostly new companies. Startuply is focused, of course, on startups.  Its got a mediocre job search engine with a decent advanced search, and nice, colorful, organized results – but with one problem, the title of the job is almost always truncated – you have to mouse-over to get a profile (which is cool, but still annoying).  I'd rather have had a better results formatting than the need for a mouseover.  The quality of jobs seems very good, and there's some extra company detail that may help you out, but you'll want to broaden your search to get the best results.

Startuply also has a few more things: a blog (standard), a newsfeed (not sure about it), etc.  However one of the things that stands out is a startup map of the world that allows you to filter and zoom in on results.  This is not only good for research, but I think it speaks well of the future potential of the website.  There's a lot of ambition here, the technology is solid, and I suspect this is a site that want's to become THE destination.

One thing that does make me wonder is what the business model of Startuply is.  It seems they're trying to get eyeballs now with perhaps an eye on deluxe service later.  Then again I figure they probably have a better idea of what they're doing than the average startup since they've got a lot of research material coming in daily.

Overall Startuply is another addition to your regular job search if you're interested in startups, obviously.