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Startups: Avoid These Inner-Series Mistakes When Scaling Your Business

YoungUpstarts

Series B: Hiring and Developing Managers. All startups find themselves struggle with hiring to meet growing demand, leaving most startups scrambling to onboard hires. When startups make new hires, it’s not uncommon to then promote the longest-tenured engineer, tasking them with onboarding staff. At Women 2.0

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ProfessorVC: Burn Rate

Professor VC

The burn rates of my portfolio companies is certainly top of mind right now, but thats not what this post is about. Since Im not a fan of any of those genres, I have been looking forward to the release of his latest work, Burn Rate. ► 2011. (7). ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Steve Bennet.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

www.chubbybrain.com

Post-Mortem Title : My eHarmony for Hiring Failure. – made compromises in early hiring decisions – choose expediency over talent/competency. Hiring is hard, and without proper experience, we should have leaned more heavily on our investors to help us with this decision. I realized that money was not the issue.

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ProfessorVC: Crowdfunding - Good Idea or Really, Really Stupid.

Professor VC

Monday, November 14, 2011. Since small businesses are responsible for the vast majority of new jobs, legislators believe that these new rules will make it easier for entrepreneurs to raise capital and ramp up hiring. ▼ 2011. (7). ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. 2930) , commonly referred to as Crowdfunding.

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Silicon Valley Frontlines: Two Tales of "Working For Equity"

philipsmith.typepad.com

a year burn rate and your equity is worthless due to numerous recapitalizations and bridge loans from investors then either you don't get it or I'm stupid to do it. Looks like you should have hired a CFO a long time ago! February 2011. The second example came along just this morning. Don't get me wrong.

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

Companies raised too much money in 2005-08 and had high burn rates. 2010 was the year of the “super angel&# and 2011 has to date been the year of unbelievably highly priced B,C & D rounds of venture capital. August 2011. tl;dr summary. VCs were very active in this period. So no new deals got done. We did not.

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ProfessorVC: Rebuild our Inner Cities one Venture at a time?

Professor VC

If the rest of the country were experiencing the new company growth, hiring challenges, decreasing office vacancies and rising rents that we are in the Bay Area, the economy wouldnt be the top issue in the presidential campaign. ► 2011. (7). Labels: accelerators , education , entrepreneurship. 4 comments: Wade. Older Post.