YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 1, 2016

One of the crucial steps in getting your business up and running is to hire your first employees. is probably not the best approach to hiring for your business. Hiring must be a priority or at the very least, scheduled into your busy day to ensure it is done effectively. Do your due-diligence. It’s time to recruit!

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Partner decisions are more important than hiring decisions. Thus you should do the same or more due diligence on educational background, previous work, and references. By using this checklist, you should be able to objectively match potential partners with your own needs and expectations. No historical baggage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2011

Partner decisions are more important than hiring decisions. Thus you should do the same or more due diligence on educational background, previous work, and references. By using this checklist, you should be able to objectively match potential partners with your own needs and expectations. No historical baggage.

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Gust

APRIL 13, 2014

Partner decisions are more important than hiring decisions. Thus you should do the same or more due diligence on educational background, previous work, and references. By using this checklist, you should be able to objectively match potential partners with your own needs and expectations. No historical baggage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2010

Partner decisions are more important than hiring decisions. Thus you should do the same or more due diligence on educational background, previous work, and references. By using this checklist, you should be able to objectively match potential partners with your own needs and expectations. No historical baggage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2015

That’s why they insist on spending a day with your team as part of the due diligence process. Focus on hiring the right people, and deal quickly with mismatches. Skills and experience are necessary in hiring, but finding a match in values and culture is equally important. Every investor knows this.

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Up and Running

JULY 2, 2014

We had personally invested $70,000 of our own money at this point, and we were hoping to raise at least another $250,000 to help us hire a team, launch our company, and begin to build our product. After a couple of due diligence meetings with the investor and our attorneys, he gave us the check. We were on a roll.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

This option is absolutely helpful (but only if their mentors match your business, so do your research) because you’ll be introduced to their network of mentors and investors to help find your team members and progress your business. Talk to peers at other firms who have recently hired selected positions (CMO, CTO, CFO).

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

If investors find your pitch interesting, they will want to begin what’s called the due diligence process. 7 : What will your market look like in five years as a result of using your product or service? and re-position a company for optimal growth – and even sometimes dissolution.).

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

A CTO will guide your product strategy, market validation, architectural decisions, process optimization, recruiting, and hiring. They shorten the sales cycle, mitigate risks, and provide assurance in the context of technical due diligence. They provide a variety of compliance solutions for such cases as SOCS and PCI.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 8, 2014

You can pour your heart and soul (and life savings) into a venture, do all your due diligence, toil 80- and 90-hour weeks, and just when you’re on the verge of a breakthrough, a dark horse competitor sweeps in and decimates your market share. Refusing to hire people who are smarter than you. Or a key vendor declares bankruptcy.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 10, 2020

From due diligence to integrity management; in this blog post, we are going to take a look at the steps needed to protect your business from a nightmare unfolding. Why Should Your Business a Hire a Corporate Security Company? Due Diligence. This is exactly what due diligence is all about.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2011

Examples: insurance, health care, hosting, public relations, marketing materials, finding and hiring talent, etc… Buying power, negotiation power, economies of scale were all mentioned in different variations. Share due diligence on a space or an existing space. Help with introductions – but be selective.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Hiring is a chapter unto itself, but it deserves to lead off any discussion of context. You can conduct group interviews, get your candidate “liquored up” (not a recommendation), and even have a trial period on the job to see if there’s a good match. Compensation decisions obviously affect hiring and retention.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Investors will look first to a summary , and then a pitch ; but if you get through that screening, they’ll want to see a business plan for the process of due diligence. The process of looking for money must match the needs of the company. Most commercial banks require a business plan as part of a loan application.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2010

Do your “due diligence” through good homework before someone else sets the parameters. Maintain your professionalism, emphasize value, and match your advantages to investor and customer interests. Show them you are the highest value alternative, not the lowest price. Show them a return on investment (ROI) in their own terms.

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OnlyOnce

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

In a study conducted by MavenLink/Research Now, “The White Collar Gig Economy,” 47% of companies state they are looking to hire contractors to fill management and senior executive roles, including c-suite contractors. The CEO hires a coach who can help them navigate new situations and challenges.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

The decision is yours as to how you package up your offering in a way that matches your goals. You’ll need to be prepared for much more thorough due diligence than with angels, up to and including a colonoscopy. But, they expect to be analyzing a finished product from you and not creating your business plan for you.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 17, 2010

The team hired only the best and the brightest. I was the junior guy on a project team; I was called in to do some technical due diligence for reasons that were obscure to me, because the team already had much more senior engineers assigned to it. The team hired only the best and the brightest. It was painful to watch.

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OnlyOnce

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

In a study conducted by MavenLink/Research Now, “The White Collar Gig Economy,” 47% of companies state they are looking to hire contractors to fill management and senior executive roles, including c-suite contractors. The CEO hires a coach who can help them navigate new situations and challenges.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

The reasoning behind investing in an index fund is that it closely matches the overall market - and it?s These new super angels are really signals in that marketplace that are causing others to invest or not invest based on their due diligence and research. s very hard to beat the efficient market. startupcto

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 15, 2015

To answer those questions, here are seven common things that your interviewer or hiring manager will check, either before or after your interview. If your interviewer finds out that you lied about educational credentials, it will kill your chances at getting hired. Your employment history. Other social media accounts. .

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 29, 2011

Worst comes to worse, I tell you that I see an issue with something you're doing that makes it less than a great match, and it's good feedback. Those are often pretty random, so I feel like it might be worth dropping me a line. Oh, and by the way, it's charlie@firstround.com. Talking to a VC is never a one shot deal. So how do you balance?

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Before taking equity in a company I go through a VC-like investment and due diligence process. Have not met anyone I wanted to hire who was willing to work for equity. The letters and numbers you entered did not match the image. Should You Hire People With Graduate Degrees for Your Startup? Good point.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Then, I needed to determine who is the right match for me. What are my ideal match’s skill sets, background, age, geography, work style, level of commitment, compensation requirements, friend vs. new acquaintance, etc…? Additionally, if you want to hire more engineers, how hard will it be to find people using this language.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 5, 2012

I'll prioritize responding to it and it makes me feel like you're persistent enough to close a sale or a hire. Try to guess who my first due diligence call is for your company and get to them first before I bastardize your pitch to them. 4) Do your homework. What is it about me that makes you want to pitch me?

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Great businesses can be built off this network, starting with matching talent and opportunity. In the financing process, the individual venture partner performs the due diligence on the substance behind a company’s pitch — e.g., the investment thesis, the competition, the people, etc. That’s a worthy value proposition.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

Open, and that match there is Roger Federer and he won that tournament that year. The deal went through, I bought the website, and eventually hired a team of writers. What you can do with a blog that’s got a little bit of traction and a little bit of traffic is hire a team of volunteers. I’m a big fan of tennis.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

We were bootstrapping the company’s funding, so we could not afford to hire a firm to help us come up with a company name. After doing some due diligence, we decided to go with Honest Agency and we haven’t looked back since. He hired my new firm to get more media attention. Thanks to Callum Beattie, Honest Agency ! #25

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

If you are an entrepreneur seeking funding, try our free Funding Recommendation Engine to identify a list of angels, venture capital and state grant programs that best match your business. Post-Mortem Title : My eHarmony for Hiring Failure. Hiring was a challenge we found difficult throughout the life of our Company.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. If you are a startup looking to hire really excellent people, take notice of.NET on a resume, and ask why it’s there. Expensify Blog. Expense Reports That Don't Suck. William Pearson.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

When do we hire that new person? After the pitch, we’ll ask them for the business plan, and then we’ll use the business plan to do the due diligence. Another thing really important in concrete specifics is just the way humans work. Have some major milestones. When is the new launch? When is the new version?

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Algorithms will be the heart and soul of due diligence — it’s not just a sanity- check mechanism,” said Matt Oguz, the managing partner of new investment firm Palo Alto Venture Science. Test subjects NEED to match your ideal customer profile. Hire a conversion expert that will do it for you. Usability testing.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2010

One of the common themes in the comments was, “you’ve written this post mostly from the employer’s perspective.&# Yeah, I guess I thought that was sort of implicit in the title of the post, “Never Hire Job Hoppers.&# So let me start today from the perspective of the employee. They felt misled.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

If you have an existing company, you evaluated your core identity in the discovery phase and now have a chance to evolve that identity to better match your current/future vision, mission, and values. It directly affects your ability to sell, to fundraise, to hire the best employees, and to grow. 2) Articulate your brand positioning.

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