In this episode we dive into:

• What Alex started Faraday
• How Faraday picked HVAC as a place to start
• A unique set of customer targeting related to recent trends in Private Equity
• How the trades are modernizing and becoming a technology oriented career

Check out Faraday Careers at https://www.faradaycareers.com

-Robotics industry changes in mobile compute, batteries

-Robots as a power tool to help workers

-Who are the buyers of robots with an org

-The benefits of robots-as-a-service to the robotics company and the buyers

-Addressing inventory management and data challenges in retail

-The unexpected data opportunity for marketers opened up by Simbe Robotics

-How workers visit the office at a robitcs company

-Hard problems being solved by Brad

• The power of community building
• Leveraging Linkedin with lower cost social platforms
• Building audience with twitter and podcasting
• Using partnerships and novel ways to promote events
• How to do partner marketing when you have a small customer base
• How billboards and out-of-home can help in HR
• Moving from ideal customer profile to target use case
• Thinking through the very early stages of product messaging
• And more!

• The 4 investment themes they follow
• Ideal profile of a company to follow them
• Quick thoughts on chatbots and automation
• Thoughts from raising from a strategic investor from a former corporate venture person
• Thoughts FOR corporate venture firms

Looking to raise? And a good fit? - reach out to Jason dot Corsello at Acadian Ventures !

-Reaching skilled laborers

-What to think about when re-branding

-Just generally Olga being great!

How deep verticalization leads to great NPS and high gross margins

Successful go-to-market levers

North star metrics

Surviving the pandemic shut down and a great book recommendation

Hamilton Helmers' 7 Powers (see https://7powers.com/); he calls the moat discussed "process power". Here's a summary: https://blas.com/7-powers/ 

Flipping the script on the offshoring of US jobs, Alariss helps global companies find the right go-to-market talent to enter the US market effectively.

Alariss connects early and late stage companies with the best go-to-market talent through their marketplace.

Joyce covers her own go-to-market background that led to this opportunity.

Getting traction with the initial set of companies.

What type of talent does well in this marketplace.

Addressing cultural differences, at scale, between talent and employers.

What comes next.

• How Ruben used his music promotion skills to build awareness and a community for career karma
• The value of community -- and audio -- in rapid reskilling
• How CareerKarma is going to use their latest round of funding to invest in CareerKarma's growth and helping more people get reskilled

• Why SenseHQ focused on creating delightful experiences for job applicants
• The robust thought process that led Anil to SenseHQ
• The value of a delightful experience in creating brand value for staffing agencies
• Compare and contrast the value propositions that resonate with staffing vs companies
• Thoughts on AI and chatbots
• How the expectations of employer responsiveness to applications is changing and how SenseHQ helps

Plus, much, much more.

• Whether DAO contributors will have holidays
• On boarding challenges in DAOs and how layer3 helps solve this issue
• How to build decentralized, task verification on scale
• The origin story of layer3
• How bounty boards address information asymmetry
• Where DAOs will thrive compared to companies and non-profits
• Whether anyone changed their babies name to RGT
• The instant gratification of everything And a heck of a lot more!

It covers a number of topics, including, but not limited to:

• Iterating to find the right target market
• The value of a verticalized offering in terms of retention
• How network effects work in vertical labor marketplaces
• A discussion about the potential for ownership among customers and users

I had a lot of fund recording this and highly recommend taking a look.

Career transitions will likely happen to nearly everyone in the labor force today. Companies that help facilitate the transition will be in demand. Both because employers need to hire more workers and because these companies will help reduce economic dislocation.

Mike covers the early product prototype he built to connect companies and military members.

He touches on identifying the right customer profile and selling to the Department of Defense.

He also covers his 8 years working at Indeed and 2 years at The Muse. He compares and contrasts technical partnerships focused on integration versus marketing partnership focused on revenue generation.

Finally we close with a discussion of fundraising in todays market.

What Chris has learned taking 3 different HR Tech products to market, two as startups and 1 at Indeed.com.

Learn how much to raise for your HR startup and why!