David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

As I’ve worked to build out HOF Capital ’s portfolio acceleration platform , the #1 question I think about is: how do we scalably support our companies? Many VCs offer (or strive to offer) a bundle of levers and support structures to help their portfolio companies. We have lower AUM, therefore lower management fees.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

This post expands on a recent podcast I did with Living Corporate outlining the story behind my career switch to software engineering. I’m currently coming up on my two-year anniversary as a software engineer on December 19, 2018. Before working as a software engineer, I was already in “tech”, just not at a startup.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 1, 2014

This article is to help Hiring Managers improve their practices to find the best Project Managers for their needs. The first would require a Cisco Network Engineer, not a Project Manager. h4> With cost-cutting measures in place at a lot of firms, hiring managers are trying to do more with less people. Which leads us to….

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David Teten

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Last week I had a chance to interview Kyle Stalzer, President at Tackk (a portfolio company of my firm, ff Venture Capital ), about an issue that’s top of mind for a lot of our companies: How to Recruit an A-Quality Designer for Your Company. Internet marketers help increase traffic to your site through search engine optimization.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

A week or so ago, we launched the Key Hire Wire at First Round. We realized that there were certain open positions in our portfolio we wanted to call extra attention to. We are looking for a seasoned engineer with management experience to take ownership of our engineering team.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

You hire people who look good on paper. Which engineers dialed it in before a big release because it was during July 4th weekend? ” Who cut you in on their bonus because even though you’re “just an sales engineer” they know you really deserved more credit for this deal. After 6 months – you know.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 14, 2022

It will be best to review the professional’s portfolio to determine if their video quality meets the suitable standard. For instance, if you need a corporate video, compare the look of similar videos in the portfolio to what you would see in the corporate marketing campaign.

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View from Seed

JUNE 5, 2018

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. To get one hire for a given role, how many phone screens, interviews and offer extends are needed?

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Version One Ventures

JULY 24, 2019

These individuals can be entrepreneurs, engineers, PMs, data scientists, designers, creatives, writers, students, etc. Working with existing portfolio companies, including helping out with hiring, financial modeling, and research. Executing projects of your own direction that help Version One and/or our portfolio companies.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

None of that can compare with being the CEO of a startup facing a rapidly diminishing bank account, your best engineer quitting, working until 10pm and rushing to the airport and catching a redeye for a “ Hail Mary ” close of a customer, with your board demanding you do it faster. People skills. People skills. Fund raising skills.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 18, 2013

We made 3 new investments: Figure 1 , a photo-sharing network for medical professionals; Upverter , a cloud-based hardware engineering platform; and one unannounced investment. These new investments bring the total number of portfolio companies to 14. News portfolio review' Boris & Angela.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 20, 2020

You can hire remote developers. The best software engineering companies always prioritize exploring all of the possibilities to find the most accurate solutions as they can. There will be a point where you will want to hire the professionals of data science to build the specific software for your business.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 8, 2019

Hire a qualified developer. You wouldn’t hire an amateur mechanic to replace the brakes on your car. This problem is completely avoidable by hiring a reputable app development company with a portfolio you can verify. Search reviews for your competitors’ apps and make a list of common complaints.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 11, 2018

After a couple of weeks, I had written to 500 people, talked to at least 20, and made a hire, after failing to do so for months. The other day, I was in a board meeting and we were talking about the need for a software engineer. The team already had a lead on board. 3) Collaborate with other companies on sourcing through events.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

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. When to make your first analytics hire. So when should you start thinking about your first analytics hire? What to look for in your first analytics hire.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 30, 2011

You want to showcase your best engineers in the process balanced with those who are good interviewers (which can be wildly different). Have an awesome engineering process that you are pros at and can showcase in the interview. It’s an extremely tight hiring market for software developers right now.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Today we’re excited to share the official launch of Replay , a browser that records all of the context that developers and engineers need to fix bugs faster. The need for Replay is pretty obvious; every developer/engineer spends countless hours debugging their code. But now, when an engineer gets stuck, they can share a replay.

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

First Round Capital’s forum for portfolio executives is a powerful example of a scaleable resource. This allows a VC to put more capital to work in their past portfolio companies with relatively little extra effort. – Hire more non-Partner staff. – Hire more Partners.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 5, 2019

When it comes to proving your expertise, graphic design is one field where your portfolio is worth more than your pedigree. A large amount of business owners would prefer to hire someone for this task, so focus on that audience and you’ll have more than enough potential clients to choose from. SEO Specialist. Remote IT Consultant.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 29, 2017

You may have the engineering and design capabilities required to operate this type of business, and you may have the best PCB layout software at your disposal, but you must be proficient in other skills in order to be successful. By hiring your firm, they will be able to focus on other business related tasks. What are the Challenges?

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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. Immediately.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Replay , a browser that records all of the context that deve lopers and engineers need to fix bugs faster, launched out of beta and announced a $5.6M The funding will contribute to hiring, international expansion, and mobile app development; read more about their plans here. and new investors too. seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 9, 2013

I’ve written before about hiring for cultural fit, and about the importance of prioritizing cultural fit over competence when hiring at startups. I started thinking about it again when I saw this Dilbert comic , because it pokes fun at the culture of startups and their propensity only to hire people who fit into them.

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Transformify

MAY 15, 2023

And the only way to do that is by being creative and strategic with your approach to hiring software developers. Ways To Attract The Best Software Development Talent Hiring the best talent always starts with attracting them. But of course, if you’re going this way, you must have amazing ideas for onboarding new hires.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 7, 2014

And my sense is the trend carries outside of our portfolio these days. Hiring Has Changed: Before the press was a way of generating interest for hiring. And search engines like sourcing.io help you build a specific list based on skills you’re seeking. What’s changed?

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

On the infrastructure side, Epic owns ‘Unreal Engine’ the second most popular 3D graphic engine, and creator of MetaHumans, a digital twin rendering software that can be used to create hyper realistic characters to ‘populate’ the Metaverse. The largest and most popular 3D engine has big plans for the Metaverse.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

portfolios. How many people will you hire in the first 24 months and in which sequence. Don’t know the running rate for engineers? I won’t need to hire many engineers or customer support staff. Unfortunately this was reinforced by the many conferences that rushed to espouse the benefits of Web 2.0

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Instead, post pictures from a recent Habitat for Humanity trip, showcase graphic art skills or a love for writing by including a portfolio of recent work and a link to published articles. And, make sure not to post about job interviews or possible places that are close to finalizing the hiring process. Avoid hot-button topics.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2014

If a software engineer, we will call him “Neo”, is needed on a project, then IT is asked if Neo can be assigned to the project. The company decided there was enough work to justify hiring Neo, our software engineer. Money is not needed to save the world. The official term of this dilemma: lost opportunity cost.

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Eric Friedman

JANUARY 16, 2023

Throughout most of 2020-2022, the startup world was met with easy access to capital, too many ideas that got funding, and a glut of hiring. Our first slow-burn startup is www.viewsource.to – a beautiful portfolio maker for developers (or simply put: dribble for developers). ” Solving a real problem.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

This year was a banner year as boldstart portfolio cos raised over $150mm of follow on capital from some of the top Series A and B investors (highlights below). This means more collaboration with the Fortune 500 and more go-to-market experience as our portfolio companies navigate their path to first customers.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2012

One of our portfolio companies asked me this week, “Do you all have a list of job boards your portfolio companies have had great success with in recruiting high quality engineers?”. In a Dreamit talk I gave on recruiting star engineers , embedded below, I discuss a host of ways to do this.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Hiring an expert or a coach to walk you through establishing your business can help you minimise the chances of failure but some entrepreneurs will prefer walking alone. 1-Hiring inappropriate council. Hiring inappropriate council constituted a $15k mistake because the incorrect company was formed–costing us time and $15k.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Hiring an expert or a coach to walk you through establishing your business can help you minimise the chances of failure but some entrepreneurs will prefer walking alone. 1-Hiring inappropriate council. Hiring inappropriate council constituted a $15k mistake because the incorrect company was formed–costing us time and $15k.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

Many of our clients have expressed an interest in using video as part of their online marketing efforts, and we have seen firsthand the impact of videos on search engine results. With time you can hire local artisans to expand your business. You can help your clients create cover letters and portfolios they’ll be confident to share.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 13, 2023

per engineer.” Especially in the early days of mobile/iOS engineering, if you hired strong technical talent into your early stage company, you basically created an acquisition outcome floor. Those who do, often believe they can hire from the open market without the hassle of an acquisition. Very different.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

To kickstart your career, set up a profile on popular freelance websites like Upwork and Freelancer and start building your portfolio. If you’ve got an eye for design but no formal web design training, you can still break into the industry with a little informal education and a good portfolio. SEO consultant. Business coach.

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