Startup Hiring: I’ve hired all my friends – now what?

Finance4Founders is pleased to announce its upcoming dinner event Startup Hiring: I’ve hired all my friends – now what? on Thursday, October 29, 2009 at the Intercontinental Hotel in San Francisco.

Our speakers for October are Peter Pham of Billshrink.com and Dan Arkind of Jobscore.com. Our topic for discussion is on how early stage founders find & hire great people (on a budget). The discussion will cover info on how to design a startup hiring plan, how to create a competitive recruiting & hiring process, and what you need to know about employee compensation & equity.

Peter Pham

As CEO of BillShrink, Peter drives company expansion and is an advocate for customer rights and transparency among service providers. He was previously vice president of business development at Photobucket.com, where he was the fifth employee and was responsible for driving user acquisition, strategic partnerships and corporate development. Photobucket was acquired in 2007 by Fox Interactive Media, a division of News Corporation.

When Peter left in 2008, Photobucket had grown to more than 61M users, making it the #1 photo sharing site and the 38th most visited site in the U.S. Prior to Photobucket, Peter was in the enterprise space for more than 8 years working in sales, marketing, reseller channel development, product and strategy for multiple startups in the fields of mid-range server computing, software as a service, solid state storage and mobilization of enterprise software.
Peter holds a bachelor’s degree in biological sciences and a minor in business management from the University of California, Irvine.

Dan Arkind

Dan is a 14 year veteran of the startup recruiting wars. He has filled every role at venture backed startups from employee 0 to 100, including connecting founders with one another. Dan is currently the CEO of JobScore, an online recruiting solution in use by 50+ Bay Area employers. In 2006 Dan co-founded STIRR, an entrepreneur networking group.

If you’d like to attend this event, please apply by sending an email Dan [dot] Martell [at] gmail [dot] com, providing a short bio and links to any online profiles for review.