There's a reason why the vast majority of "jobs" on this site are either for interns or co-founders (with the "co" part being actually making stuff).<p>There's no money in Dutch startups, very little investment.<p>So with some very rare exceptions, most startups pay way less than traditional IT, and you can shout all you want about only wanting young an hungry talent willing to work for equity (also quite relative, very few Dutch startups flip or go IPO), this is seriously hampering their potential for attracting talent.<p>Especially in a country that may be less risk-averse than most European countries, but still way more than the US.
One of the big mistakes startups here in the Netherlands (and the rest of europe)make is that the try to copy the Silicon Valley eco system, which will not work here. For a hole lot of reasons like history, culturel difference, political system etc.<p>For instance, one mistake a lot of startups make is offering Dutch people shares while their productivity wont be higher. Giving them a higher salary or more freedom on where and when they work motivates them much more and is often enough reason to leave a big boring corp.<p>It's true that there is less money here then in SV but it doesn't mean there are no jobs. But most of these job postings won't be on a site like the above. I even think the problem here is more on the supply side and not demand. I can name a few startups that are looking for talent right now, including us, willing to pay a great salary but simple can't find the right talent. Take a look at the type of open positions, cto, technical co founder, developer intern etc. I think that's the biggest problem we have to solve here first...
While I welcome the idea, I do find it strange that they just focus on Dutch startups, when if you have the right to work in the EU you can work anywhere. Another one that I came across this week, out of Scotland, is <a href="http://www.upstartjobs.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.upstartjobs.com/</a>
Amazed that Booking.com isn't on that site yet, the amount of recruiters that approach me on LinkedIn asking if I'm interested working there is shocking. I've had about 4 requests the past month I think for them alone..
Bookmarked for when the error is resolved.<p>Some IT jobs posted in other places just omit the location, assuming everyone lives in SF. Really looking forward to find out what's going on in my homeland.<p>Cached version: <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.dutchstartupjobs.com%2F&aq=f&oq=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.dutchstartupjobs.com%2F&aqs=chrome.0.57j58.2732j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8" rel="nofollow">http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...</a>
Another (Wordpress) website failing horribly under load after receiving the attention they so desperately desired.<p>And the failure just dumps the MySQL error on the front page.<p>Not terribly inspiring.
My personal opinion it can be improved to be easier to skim through for job descriptions. There is too much information on the page, the number of jobs per page is small and it looks like there is no focus on jobs itself. I find this website <a href="http://www.workinstartups.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.workinstartups.com/</a> for the startup jobs in the UK way easier to use for job search.
Very good initiative not just to help find people, but also to improve the visibility of startups in the wider economy. Do similar job boards exist in other countries?
Ugh. When I read this on my smartphone that social media share thing on the left was placed all over the content. Couldn't read a thing. So freaking annoying.