Due Diligence Finance Hiring Silicon Valley 
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 30, 2014
I seldom hire patent attorneys during due diligence but this was too important. We hired OSHA regulatory lawyers. We hired IP specialists to review prior art. She connected me with Andreessen’s due diligence team who were surprisingly open with all the technical analysis they had done.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 5, 2014
Last week a company we enthusiastically backed, uBeam , led by a very special entrepreneur, 25-year-old Meredith Perry , announced a $10 million round of financing. The beauty of Silicon Valley and the ethos it has driven in all of us is acceptance of failure and a profound respect for those who at least try. I was not fried.
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Seeing Both Sides
APRIL 28, 2011
But if you are a competent engineer, sales executive, online marketer or general manager in Silicon Valley, NYC, Boston or other start-up hotspots, the unemployment rate is 0%. CNN recently reported that 40% of the 130,000 job openings in Silicon Valley are for software engineers. 2) Hiring Inexperience.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 13, 2011
There was a lot of consumer internet activity again…resurgence of things, but it was still mysterious, venture capital was still kind of closed, 1st time entrepreneurs had a lot of questions that were unanswered, and there was still some sort of hand waiving around all the financing stuff and so we took it on….”. The Oblong guy, literally?
David Teten
AUGUST 19, 2019
Since 2017 we’ve managed $3 million in revenue-based financing, which helps cash-strapped technology companies grow. The mode purpose for funding is (in order of frequency) Sales, Marketing, Market Expansion, Product Development, and Hiring Employees. “ You qualify if you have $5k+ MRR. Bigfoot Capital. Decathlon Capital.
mashable.com
JUNE 11, 2013
Young founders tend to complicate things too much, from structuring partnership agreements, financing, leases, etc. Hiring Poorly. Make sure that new hires understand your rate of innovation. If you dont manage this expectation upon hiring, you will be managing employee issues six months down the line.
abovethecrowd.com
APRIL 20, 2016
Why the Unicorn Financing Market Just Became Dangerous…For All Involved. Ironically, Carreyou is not a Silicon Valley-focused reporter, and the success of the piece served as a wake-up call for other journalists who may have been struck by Unicorn fever. The typical Silicon Valley term sheet does not include such terms.
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