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We’re Pleased To Offer You A Job. Base Salary: $0June 1, 2009By Timothy HayHow would you like to get in on the ground floor, and work for a start-up company that could take off and become the next Silicon Valley success story?There’s a catch, though - you have to work for free.Max Shapiro - a serial entrepreneur who once scouted talent for NBA teams and now hunts talent for emerging technology companies - encourages job candidates to do just that.His San Francisco-based staffing agency, PeopleCo

More than 400 people crammed into the District wine bar in the South of Market on Thursday evening for a chance to work for free at a Silicon Valley startup - or find somebody who would work for free, at least for a few hours a week.Lured with free drinks provided by the startups, unemployed people spilled out the door onto the sidewalk and were blocked from entering by a security guard when the room got too full. At one point, there were 50 or so people waiting in line, although some gave up

In this sequel, "Bubble 2: The Return" people are once again eager to work for stock options, foregoing a pedestrian paycheck for a chance to chase riches.

Building The 'A' TeamTom Taulli 04.21.06, 6:00 AM ET New York - Growth is a good problem to have--if you can add enough good people to manage it.Digg.com had that problem. Started in August 2004 by Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson, founder of Equinix (nasdaq: EQIX - news - people ), Digg lets users act like editors by forwarding news stories plucked from real publications and prompting other Digg readers to comment on them. Stories that get the most votes--meaning that readers "digg 'em"

If the idea of working without pay at a startup without revenue, funding, or even a fully formed business plan in exchange for what basically amounts to a lottery ticket sounds appealing, talk to Max Shapiro.Mr. Shapiro’s firm, PeopleConnect, recruits executives to work at pre-funding startups, the sort of small, high-growth tech companies that could either dissolve into obscurity or be the next Google.They’re angel employees, willing to invest their labor in exchange for an equity stake in much

Reynaldo Gill and Ken Crittendon, founders of a Fremont startup called Commendo Software, were in a common catch-22. They hoped to get venture capital funding. To attract that funding, they needed a team of experienced sales and finance executives. But since they didn't yet have funding, they had no money to hire those people. Many startups founder at precisely that impasse. But Gill and Crittendon found an unusual solution. They contacted a small San Francisco search firm called PeopleConnect t

Job, Salary Data Send Mixed SignalAnemic employment growth points to a slowing economy. But robust, albeit uneven, wage increases could spur another Fed hike.By Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Times Staff WriterAugust 5, 2006 A weak jobs report Friday provided further evidence of a slowing economy and ammunition for the Federal Reserve to stop raising interest rates. Wage inflation, however, continued to be above the Fed's comfort level, thanks in part to workers like Carlos Gonzalez. The 33-year-old Bel...