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Tackling The Talent Gap: Best Practices For Uncovering New Hires

YoungUpstarts

Robust startup economies are popping up in communities all over the country, proving that entrepreneurs can succeed outside of Silicon Valley. It is harder to diversify if your first few hires are homogenous, so branch out beyond your typical hiring pool to seek out diversity of all types —race, gender, culture, and education.

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How Silicon Valley's Most-Connected Exec Does His Hiring

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Introduced before keynoting at Austin, Texas's Capital Factory Demo Day as "the most-connected person in Silicon Valley," Hoffman gave a really interesting talk about how he handles hiring at his company. Auren Hoffman on hiring people to work in tech startups. It should be below 50%. Doing something after work.

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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

Both Sides of the Table

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.

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Hire a Recruiter.Now

Seeing Both Sides

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.

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

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. We hired outside experts. But I can tell you from my experience in due diligence that many who have actually seen the company’s plans have changed their minds and now believe.

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How to Raise Startup Funding from Unlikely Angel Investors

Up and Running

I don’t have an MBA and I don’t live in Silicon Valley. They are professionals with full-time jobs, who often don’t have time for due diligence (and may not even know how to do it) and often make decisions through trusted referrals or based on gut feelings (more on gut feelings later). I’m not your average angel.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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So I was on the front line of this very aggressive rollup and I got involved in helping with the technical due diligence…”. “As So having spent a lot of time thinking about this Silicon Valley is a thing in and of itself. So everybody goes through this phase of we want to be the next Silicon Valley.