How do I find out more about Dirt Road and startup companies that might be hiring to add to my target company list?
There are many resources you can use to expand your target list including:
- Our CDO ER&R team added 80+ new start-ups to Career Central in September after our colleague, Susan Todd, attended the Grace Hopper and TechCrunch conferences to scout new companies for Sloanies.
- To review them, log in to Career Central, click on Companies > Company List > More Filters, and set your filters to “yes” for start-up and “9/1/23-today” for dates, and voila, you will have a list of 80+ startups that indicated interest in hiring MIT talent.
- Review companies that are currently posting roles on startup job boards like Wellfound (formerly AngleList), or innovation sites like the BostInno Startup Directory. The Engine is another great resource.
- For early-stage start-ups, check out the start-ups featured on various accelerator websites such as Mass Challenge or the Y Combinator Start-Up Directory.
- Review the start-ups listed on various Venture Capital firm websites to get a sense of firms that may be hiring in the future, for example, Sequoia Capital’s page, Our Companies.
- Within the MIT ecosystem, MIT Orbit is a robust resource that includes an Opportunities page with lists of start-ups that are hiring. Even if there’s no role posted that is a fit for you, this is great information about start-ups that currently have the funds to hire.
- The CDO provides access to Crunchbase which includes news on the innovation ecosystem, and nuanced lists of companies, for example, “U.S. Companies with Hispanic/Latine Founders funded in the last two years.”
- Leverage AI tools like Bard, ChatGPT4, etc., just make sure the tool you are using is pulling from a live data set that is current. A great prompt our team used recently: “Generate a list of MBA internship postings at generative AI companies in the US which have raised a funding round in 2023.”
