[jtdaugh]

Hacking the startup job search at its finest.

As someone whose inbox has been on the receiving end of some funding announcements recently, this crunchbase method is definitely used more outside of job searching: recruiters, sales folks, etc, all love to jump on a funding announcement.

Wish more engineers, designers and product people used this approach - nothing better than an inbound candidate who gives a shit and can growth hack.

[madamelic]

Finding the person who can make hiring decisions or at least can advocate for you is so much easier than having to play the lottery of submitting a job application blindly.

It lets you present your value, show you can communicate well and that you really want to work there.

If you just drop a generic cover letter, that's low-effort. If you spend the 10 - 15 minutes to write a good, succinct message on how you think you can help and that you are interested in the company, that's huge in my opinion.

I think I have done it in total about 5 times and gotten hired twice from it which isn't a bad success rate!

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With all of that said, there is a certain size where this strategy stops being viable but I am not sure where.

As a company gets bigger, it would definitely become less likely to work in my opinion but inversely, I think the smaller they are, the better it will work.