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Seed Stage Founders Undervalue Angels With Marketing & Comms Expertise

Hunter Walker

Why Bringing These Two Skillsets Onto Your Cap Table Early Is Worth It. In addition to our dollars, we are eager to help founders with the construction of their cap table, not just generically with the highest profile folks available, but more specifically where they might get some help along the way. Nor Do VCs.

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Greenhouse CEO Daniel Chait on how AI is changing human resources and weaning his company off venture funding via private equity

Hunter Walker

He’s founder and CEO of Greenhouse , a ‘hiring operating system’ for companies which spans recruiting and onboarding tools for enterprises and SMEs. This means the company is predominantly owned by the management/team and TPG. We have conviction about AI’s role in hiring as an assistant, not a decider.

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Using Startup Advisors To Help Your New Hires Can Be The Difference Between Their Success or Struggle

Hunter Walker

Why Pairing Junior Executives With External Mentors Can Accelerate Your Hiring and Their Professional Development Often at a startup it’s better to hire for talent, ambition, and commitment, than years in role or ‘did they have the job already somewhere else.’ My intuition? Just get her on board.

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Not All Startup and Venture Experience is Equal #getoffmylawn

This is going to be BIG.

You''re not a development shop that takes equity. They definitely weigh in on whether they like the management team. Others talked as if they were the ones doing the deals--even though they''re just the ones making the cap tables in Excel. Talking about your acqui-hire as anything but a failure is just plain fraud.

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

Hiring is a chapter unto itself, but it deserves to lead off any discussion of context. Compensation decisions obviously affect hiring and retention. You can’t be too careful in determining comp packages for your new hires. Your Cap Table is something that deserves constant care and attention.

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What’s The Most Difficult CEO Skill? Managing Your Own Psychology

Ben's Blog

By far the most difficult skill for me to learn as CEO was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared to keeping my mind in check. If you manage an organization of 1,000 people it is quite impossible.

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Is Dead Equity Crippling Your Company?

Altgate

One who attracted much attention is David Choe, the graffiti artist hired to paint the company’s first headquarters. Instead, the dead equity languishes on the cap table, weighing down the startup and making it harder to attract and motivate the people who could impact its growth. A Significant – and Growing – Problem.

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