We built GroupTalent based on our realization that we were most effective when working together as a team. We decided to build a community that could promote software teams and expose them to new opportunities. In terms of being an X for Y, in its current state, GroupTalent is an AngelList for dev teams and companies. Please give us some feedback!
Hey teams, charging a premium? Watch out for the zombie unbundlers. They are everywhere and they are relentless. Remember, your split is not a Nash equilibrium. Swear an oath of allegiance to each other once a week.
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/18/technology/18talent.html?hp=&pagewanted=all" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/18/technology/18talent.html?h...</a> has a report on how some companies are hiring teams.<p>They acquire a startup for its employees :)<p>An excerpt <i>"It was widely reported that FriendFeed was bought for about $47 million, or about $4 million for each employee, though some money went to its outside investors."</i>
Interesting idea, hiring a team like this could have its drawbacks. For instance, what happens when they want to leave? You have a segment of your work force leaving with domain knowledge all at once.<p>It seems really good for teams, you get to pick your co-workers (at least some of them) and you can negotiate larger compensation packages as a group.
This could be a great alternative to Odesk/Elance/etc. I've done a decent amount of outsourcing ($X00,000) and some projects are much more suited to a team that knows each other than a group of individuals.<p>And past just doing group projects, this could turn into a linkedin for developers, where you could inquire about dev X from people who have worked with him.
This sounds great until an entire group leaves your company to join another. I guess if you reap the benefits of hiring an entire team, you must willing to endure the loss of that entire team as well.
I love the idea, but as usual, I have gripes:<p>* The team URL is bland. We are grouptalent.com/teams/61, but can't we be grouptalent.com/teams/hackthology instead?<p>* It wasn't clear what the "submit for approval" button was for, so one of my team members pressed it before he should have while we were entering data.<p>* Entering education is a bit cumbersome. My team is made of EE and CS students from CWRU in the BS, MS, and PhD programs, so our education section looks pretty weird.
Hi! I'm wondering if you're recruiting only for developers or for teams that might include developers but also folks in other specialties - for instance my team includes a front-end developer, a project manager, a graphic designer, a 3D object modeler, and a web writer (yes, before you ask, a team this diverse obviously rotates based on project needs and we each have substantial crosstraining).
Cannot agree more with 'hire effective teams over individuals'.<p>And, when having to chose between high competence meeting minimal expectations on team spirit/communication/people skills versus the other way round, ALWAYS choose the former.
Curious about the plans for a revenue model. Are they going to charge teams to list? Or charge companies to find them?<p>The big challenge with any outsourcing platform is to retain recurring revenue from existing customers - because the problem is that once two parties connect with each other and do a successful project, they can just as easily contact each other direct thereafter; without any need for the middle-man.
This is a great idea. Often when I do projects through Elance I bring in team members to supplement different parts of the project. It would probably be beneficial to have a point of contact for each project as communicating with clients takes a ton of time. Otherwise one person turns into project coordinator and misses out on the fun stuff ;-).<p>Overall I love this idea and wish you great success! Keep it up.
Very well done guys, looks great and really speaks to how work in general is becoming more like how movies are made...Someone pulls expert teams together with certain needed skill sets, everyone kicks ass on a project, disperse, and repeat on the next one.
Interesting idea.<p>I tried to fill out a team profile but had problems. Now keep getting "We're sorry, but something went wrong." when I try to login. I guess I'll try again later when the Hacker News rush has passed.
Got an error when I tried to sign up as part of a team. No OAuth, just standard sign up fields. Seeing standard rails error page. "We're sorry, but something went wrong."