Today's announcement that there was zero net job growth last month is troubling indeed. I am very interested, as is the rest of the country, in the President's planned jobs speech to Congress next Thursday. One the areas I would expect him to highlight as having the most potential for job growth is the start-up community. As the country as a whole struggles to avoid a double dip recession, venture-backed start-ups are pulling more than their weight in hiring Americans. At StartUpHIre.com, an online jobs posting site for venture backed start-ups, there were more than 14,000 open jobs listed in the second quarter of 2011. From August 1, 2010 to August 1 2011, more than 40,000 jobs were posted on the site. And that is just a percentage of the total venture-backed universe.
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Author: Mark Heesen
