This thread may not be the right place for it, but LessWrong should host a job board and a place for finding startup co-founders and similar business deals.

It would benefit users:

1. Instrumental rationality should, if it's all it's cracked up to be, make for better employees and business partners.
2. The people here are self-selected for greater-than-average intelligence.
3. A person's LessWrong karma and postings (along with other online materials) give some sense of their abilities.
4. LessWrong fosters a sense of community, which is useful in making deals.

LW would not be as useful for recruiting to industry-specific roles requiring specific training and experience , but that's not too much of a problem as there is a heavy weighting of people in their earlier twenties,who have not yet launched a career.

It would benefit LW: It would be another draw and build the sense of community; and in the long run, it may result in donations to the relevant organizations; if it is very successful, LW could even charge for job postings.

I note that Quixey has already taken a shot in this direction. There were some negative reactions, which I agree with--why do they get to put commercial material here?

But if this business function were to become official, there would be fewer objections. Such a sub-site could even give advantage to posters with high LW karma.