I graduated with a degree in Business and looked for startup jobs a few years back. It is difficult because:
1) Startups generally don't hire "business" people. You'd have to have a very specific role like marketing or customer service or community management.
2) Following #1, startups won't hire you unless you have experience in those fields (or hard skills). Startups don't have the resources to train you, and will never let a complete noobie have reign over any of their program.
Unfortunately your skill set as you described it above falls short, because pretty much everyone says they have passion, and you lack hard skills.
My suggestion: starting gaining experience through your own small projects. Identify which field of work you specifically want to work in. Build a product or service, ship it, try to get it blog coverage or press, run a Facebook/Adword campaign and optimize it. Build a mailing list. Build a FB fan page following. You need to build a body of evidence you can show startups come hiring time. "These are the things I've done, and this is what I can do for you."
People (bloggers) always write about how startups should hire generalists, but in my opinion, it doesn't happen because startups are far more attracted to specialists whom they can shoehorn into generalist roles. Its less risky for them because that specialist has demonstrated depth of skill and competence, vs a generalist who shows less depth, but broader range.
Cool, makes sense to me. I'm working on a handful of things right now. Most are in the ether, but should be coding them out in the next couple of weeks. From there I will follow your advice.
As for the generalists v. specialists thing, again makes perfect sense. Telling folks "pay me I am smart, nice, and learn quickly" is a lot less quantifiable than "I got XX users in YY months, let me do that for you."
1) Startups generally don't hire "business" people. You'd have to have a very specific role like marketing or customer service or community management.
2) Following #1, startups won't hire you unless you have experience in those fields (or hard skills). Startups don't have the resources to train you, and will never let a complete noobie have reign over any of their program.
Unfortunately your skill set as you described it above falls short, because pretty much everyone says they have passion, and you lack hard skills.
My suggestion: starting gaining experience through your own small projects. Identify which field of work you specifically want to work in. Build a product or service, ship it, try to get it blog coverage or press, run a Facebook/Adword campaign and optimize it. Build a mailing list. Build a FB fan page following. You need to build a body of evidence you can show startups come hiring time. "These are the things I've done, and this is what I can do for you."
People (bloggers) always write about how startups should hire generalists, but in my opinion, it doesn't happen because startups are far more attracted to specialists whom they can shoehorn into generalist roles. Its less risky for them because that specialist has demonstrated depth of skill and competence, vs a generalist who shows less depth, but broader range.
Best of luck