Speaking of job market, I registered PowerVenture.com exactly 3 years ago from yesterday.  When I registered the domain name, my intention was to create a new type of VC company, one that invests people instead of money.  My reasoning was that most [software] startups spend majority of money they receive from VC on labor, around 60 to 75%.  So I figured, why not invest labor directly instead of money?  Three years ago, this argument didn't have much leverage because there were still enough VC money available.  So I shelved it.  Today, VC money is tight but there are lots of talented people available so PowerVenture.com could take off.

This is how PowerVenture.com works from the perspective of a company seeking investment.  First you submit your business plan and labor requirements.  After initial review process, candidates from labor pool are selected and offered the opportunity to do some work for the company in return for some money and equity combination (i.e. $50/hr + 50 shares/hr.)  15% of that goes to PowerVenture.com.  You also have the option to put your equities into an equity pool, sort of a mutual fund to reduce risk.  PowerVenture.com also investes the equities it received into the pool and manages it.  Some might argue that there are engineers available at $50/hour, but startups need top quality people and you can't get them at that rate.

Anyway, this is what I have buried three years ago.  Its nice digging up old bones.