Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

They hire their initial co-founders and early employees and everybody has a sense of “mission.” We try to hire deeply analytical associates to can help companies problem solve and who make us better investors. There are always flavors-of-the-month strategies or markets that are in favor in the tech startup world.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Thus began my marketing campaign. People often ask me what VCs look for when we hire partners and many have asked how to become VCs themselves one day. Kara has worked in finance in Boston, NYC and Silicon Valley. She has been in operations in Seattle and Los Angeles. These are all of the intangibles we were looking for.

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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….”. Human Computer Interaction.

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Transformify

AUGUST 5, 2019

‘’Diversity Hiring’’ series features world diversity and inclusion leaders and their thoughts on diversity recruitment, cultural diversity and equality. The Portland native is happiest when spending time with family, which includes her Seattle public school teacher husband, her adult son and their sweet cat Alice.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

That prediction obviously turned out pretty wrong, but it did drum up a whole lot of chatter about the right ingredients for building a startup community—about New York vs Boston on the East Coast and whether cities like Austin and Seattle would ever break through. You need both. New Yorkers help each other out.

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

Ive occasionally worked with executive recruiters, for example in hiring a CTO for my first company, Eve.com. Size of Opportunity - market size, revenue or usage, exit outcome and their ability to get equity early are all important. Minted.com is both a global design community and stationery retailer.

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keen.io

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

And if the CEO says, “Salaries will be adjusted to market value soon,” that’s probably a best-case scenario. To begin answering this question, I started on a quest to understand startup financing. On the other hand, this was new territory for the founders as well; they had zero experience making offers to new startup hires.

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Haystack

MAY 4, 2019

Everyone they’d want to hire here either could make a fortune at Facebook, or need a bigger salary as their rents skyrocketed. You will see the majority are in the Bay Area, and then New York City, and a bit more around LA and Seattle — and things get really scattered.

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United States Portfolio San Francisco New York City 87

Version One Ventures

MAY 24, 2016

Toronto has become a hub for the blossoming machine intelligence market. billion in financing in 2015 (with 395 deals). You’ve got a great number of senior level talent in engineering, sales, marketing, etc. Times are changing, and these geographical barriers are beginning to break down. Waterloo has another unicorn with Kik.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

He or she might call himself a “consulting CTO,&# “freelance CTO,&# “on-demand CTO,&# “CTO on call,&# “CTO for hire,&# or just a “technology strategy advisor.&# And why would you hire a technology guy who launched a failed startup? For one thing, you’ll learn from his mistakes. Try Google.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Silicon Valleydominates, then Boston, then Seattle, Austin, Denver, and New York. The sixth largest center for oil, or finance, or publishing?Whatever Hiring Bad Programmers I forgot to include this in the early versions of the list,because nearly all the founders I know are programmers. Afterthat theres not much.

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clicksend.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Home About Contact Make It Happen: How to find a Programmer My weekly post on Seattle 2.0. Included in my pitch to him was what I bring to the table: five years of experience at Microsoft demonstrating skills in product management, customer service, sales, marketing, analysis and monetization.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

I tried to get hired at Better Place and failed. I had gone to high school with the founders in the Seattle area, and we had recently reconnected. When I learned they were hiring a community manager, I threw everything I had at the interview process. Enter Box. Two additional moments stand out to me.

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Seeing Both Sides

DECEMBER 3, 2009

  The VC community suffered a very similar scandal at Seattle-based Entellium last year, but few reporters seem to remember that one, perhaps because it wasn't located in the heart of Silicon Valley as Canopy was.   This shielding of communication must not be allowed, particularly in the finance function.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Silicon Valley SEC 31

Up and Running

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Five years, several iterations and a stint at a Seattle business accelerator later, things are going smoothly and successfully. Statdragon is a Saas platform that allows businesses to access and analyze metrics about their existing videos and optimize their video marketing strategy. You can check out further details here. .

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Bootstrapping Cofounder Portland Burn Rate 107

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

A Startup Journey With GrubHub Founder Mike Evans written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Mike Evans. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Mike Evans. Take The Marketing Assessment: Take the Assessment. More About Mike Evans: Hangry: A Startup Journey.

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

3: Hire Your Boss : Make sure you hire people that you would want to work for, who challenge you and you can learn from. Stay involved in the hiring process as long as you possibly can. Photo credit: althecat See Also The Startup Financing Dating Game: Courting Potential Investors Be Prepared! Beg, borrow and steal.

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www.currentlyobsessed.com

MAY 28, 2010

Other factors such as your team, the market you are in, your ability to execute, and in fact other terms in your term sheet are much, much more important to your outcome and financial outcome than is the valuation of your company at the time of financing. He tries to write things that havent already been written 9000 times.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

TrueCar, an LA-based company, sells more cars now than any physical dealer in the country and recently went public and has a $1 billion market cap. The Foundations of the Seattle startup community. While the costs of starting a tech company have plummeted it still does take money to hire a team, launch products and market oneself.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 19, 2012

Conceptually, this is very intriguing and goes against the current popularity of accelerators in start-up hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, Seattle, Boulder) that are filled with recent grads and drop outs looking to build the next web sensation. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. 4 comments: Wade.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Without the proper technology to match people who wanted a ride with people who could provide that service, taxi and chauffeur companies were drastically underserving the potential market. Rover.com (*) in Seattle, which was founded by Greg Gottesman and Aaron Easterly in 2011, is the leading player in this market.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Joel moved to Seattle, and worked at Microsoft for three years as a program manager on Excel 4.0 The important lesson in order to gain market share was that in order for new users to try Microsoft Excel, they had to be able to work with the files their coworkers were creating. Marketing materials. What did you learn at Juno?

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