When it comes to conducting technical due diligence most VCs don’t do heavy due diligence unless the company is building a truly new type of technology. If the company, however, is developing new & complex technology VCs will rely on in-house or outsourced technical resources to conduct diligence. MORE >>

Union Square Ventures has a long history - in internet time at least - of hiring off this blog (posts here , here , and here.) A fundamental assumption of the way we've hired is that we're able to get to know great people through their "web presence" - the trail of online communities, projects, and services with which they've engaged. MORE >>

Here are some hiring tips to help you get started. also included insights from two entrepreneurs who have been very successful at hiring top performers: Jason Jacobs, the co-founder and CEO of RunKeeper, and Boris Revsin, co-founder & CEO of CampusLIVE, whom I've helped recruit a senior director of product and analytics. Aim high. MORE >>

That's why, even though it flies in the face of conventional wisdom, I'm advocating that all my portfolio companies hire recruiters when they are trying to fill senior or key positions.  Typically, when a young company gets financing and begins to hire, they seek to leverage the network of the founding team and their investors. MORE >>

As an Associate, you’ll be prosecuting all stages of due diligence from financial analysis to customer references. We are looking tohire an Associate to join me and my colleague Jeremy Levine at Bessemer. We spend most of our time looking at opportunities in the cloud computing, internet, e-commerce and consumer web space. MORE >>