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Personal connections are the easiest way, whether it's a startup or a bigger company. Anyone who personally knows you as a smart and reasonably sane person can pass along your application on the inside track, even if they know nothing of your domain-specific expertise.
Other than that, I don't know; personal connections were enough for my job-seeking process.
This is what I see as one of the major weaknesses of doing a PhD in math, I don't find myself able to network with many people in industry. I do know some people from undergrad though so maybe I will look into that.
Like I said, they don't need to know your domain expertise to know you're capable and sane. My personal connections were people I'd met through Less Wrong meetups, board game nights, and swing dancing in the Bay Area.