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Pros and Cons of Hiring a Remote Employee

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In part I of this topic, we’ll go through some pros and cons of remote work, and in part II we’ll highlight the types of people you should hire for remote work and how you can manage them effectively. Expand Geographic Limitations – By offering a remote work option, you don’t limit your hiring to just employees nearby.

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Pitch Deck Month: The “Where Are You Going?” Slide

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Projecting from the seed stage, there are two types of team-building topics you want to address – key senior hires and org-level team building. As the company progresses through product market fit (PMF), you will want to highlight other key senior hires required to scale and round out the functional expertise of the exec team.

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NextView’s Greatest Hits

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How to Build a Great Product Before Hiring Your First PM “At any moment, be crystal clear (and stay consistent) about what the “top company priorities” are for the quarter. Hiring Your Team. ” (Rob Go). This sounds incredibly straightforward in theory, but it’s actually hard to practice in reality.” ” (Rob Go).

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Google Engineer: How We Interview, How I’d Beat Us for Talent, & How Non-Technical Founders Should Approach Devs

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I recently chatted with Saurya about how he approaches hiring engineers at Google and what founders can learn. ” to the more complex, “Can you design Google?” ” (We’re testing for whether you can design a really large system.). NV: When you talk about “concrete” things, what do you mean?

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Advice On How To Make Your First Analytics Hire

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Recently, I’ve been working with a few of our portfolio companies to help them think about how to recruit and interview their first analytics hire. Analytics is about designing, reporting, and leveraging operating metrics to aid strategic and functional decision-making. When to make your first analytics hire.

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Highlights from NextView’s inaugural Hiring Bootcamp

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Last week, we hosted our very first portfolio-only Hiring Bootcamp in NYC, led by NextView’s talent advisor Kristen Caldwell. The quest for building such hiring machine is universal across companies at various stages. The quest for building such hiring machine is universal across companies at various stages.

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Accidental VC: How Much Does Design Matter for Seed-Stage Startups?

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.” So it’s no wonder that one aspect of an early-stage startup’s existence can be perpetually up for debate: their graphic design. Now, I recognize that every founder wants their pitch deck and website design to be quality. Just how good should a young company’s various assets look? Does it matter?