Business/website idea: OKCupid for jobs, or possibly just for co-founders.
Different workplaces have different cultures. There are probably a wide variety of cultures that work, but mixing different cultures in a workplace leads to conflict. For example:
- Suits or jeans?
- Hands-on management or delegation?
- Flexible telecommuting or rigid office hours?
- Work 60 hours a week or 35?
- Prefer to keep social life separate from office or integrated? Office romance approved/disapproved?
- Is highest status given to engineering or sales or management or who?
- Is the focus on maximizing profit or creating value for the world or what?
- Is the focus on an exit (like an IPO or acquisition) or a lifestyle business?
- Risk-averse or risk-seeking?
- In software development, programming-conservative or programming-liberal?
An OKCupid-like system of asking questions about one's preferred work culture might lead to good matches between co-founders and possibly between workplaces and employees. (Though, of course, there are many non-culture-related considerations that this kind of system doesn't evaluate. While that's true for dating too, it might be even more true for work, making this system less effective.)
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How much of what Michael talks about are you doing, and/or interested in implementing? Any interesting thoughts about what he says and how it relates to you guys? What are your next steps and needs?
Quite a bit (I'd say all to some degree) though we may not be executing it exactly how Michael specified. We launched the service in April and it's evolving quite rapidly as we continue to learn and grow with our customers/users.
This is what we're working for: http://twitter.com/thejameskyle/status/234105524277346304