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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – VP of Sales, CTO, VP of Engineering

This is going to be BIG.

A week or so ago, we launched the Key Hire Wire at First Round. You will initially spend majority of time personally working with individual accounts and coaching sales team. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. I tried to make it a little more entertaining than your average job RSS feed.

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Announcing First Round’s Investment in GroupMe

This is going to be BIG.

Both groups signed up for the deal, as did Lerer Media Ventures, and several other prominent angels—including Josh Stylman and Pete Hershberg, who backed my previous company. He introduced himself and we kept in touch through all the various social media channels—until I heard he was leaving Gilt.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

I first met Steve when he was VP of Engineering at Centerline software, a software development tools startup, and I was a junior in college. Kaufer originally hired writers to product professional reviews and allowed user reviews on a whim. billion market capitalization as of this writing. . and EBITDA margins are 47%.