Welcome Aboard
Discover your next adventure
We're so excited to finally launch our platform, where you can discover, browse and join exciting startups.
We have been really focused on getting the right companies for this launch, they're all incredible, with a tight focus on increasing diversity within their team, and rapidly growing.
More at : https://welcomeaboard.io/startups
At WelcomeAboard our mission is to help people discover exciting startups to join while improving diversity in the world of early stage startups.
We started a video series featuring great entrepreneurs pushing for diversity in tech and shaping the world of tomorrow.
Our first guest is Travis Holoway, Founder and CEO of Solo Funds, an app that offers interest-free peer-to-peer microloans for cash-strapped Americans.
Check it out here!
As a solo founder, it's not always easy to build the right team, it took a lot of time and perseverance to meet the right people and figure out that they were the right fit for this project. Hopefully, I was able to find our technical co-founder on IndieHackers, and an amazing creative person / cinematograph for this project in the Bay Area.
Over the years, many business ideas came to mind, some stuck longer than others but I was always reverting back to that note from 2015.
I was no longer working full time, and just came back from 6 months travel in SE Asia. I thought it was time to work on this venture while doing consulting work for startups
In July 31 2015 - I started to put some notes on some side ideas : Here the exact notes from that time :
Title: Find a job really meant for you.
Today, it's harder an harder to find the right profiles, a lot of them are already employed, and the one people are looking for are considered as passive candidates. Those passive candidates have some patterns : They're not actively looking for a job, will change for something they really care about, and they won't apply to any companies. In the other hand some companies tend to be late in adjusting their way of hiring people, still post classic jobs descriptions, receive tons of non qualified applications, spend time screening ...
A new platform is needed, to truly reflect your passions and your skills, link them with companies that are looking for people with real passion, skills. Increase talent pool for companies, and improve the matching between those two words. Way too disconnected as of today.
Companies need tools to attract people, go beyond the job descriptions, they need to work on the brand attractiveness which plays a lot in the decision of applying, They need help to get their message in front of the right people, they need getting in touch and establish contacts with those people.
On the other hand candidates, needs help to define and tailor their wishes, define their skills, and find opportunities they really care about beyond their resumes. Some finance people are passionate by sports, some marketers by music, some engineers by hiking, .. our job would be to link those two for candidates to explore opportunities they really care about. The goal would be to put in front of the candidates jobs descriptions, videos, announcement via linkedin, instagram, blogs, twitter that are related to their life, their envies, ... It has to be also easier for them to show their accomplishments, their passions, their notes, ...one way videos, ...
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