Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Disclaimer: I’ve never been hired by a venture firm. Qualification #1: You know how to do something specific that is valuable and needed often in pursuing a deal or servicing the portfolio. Whatever it is, it helps diligence opportunities, win deals or service the portfolio in ways that make the founders and GPs feel good.

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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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David Teten

AUGUST 20, 2019

Many are reporting that they’re seeing a more diverse pool of applicants than traditional equity VCs… even though virtually none have a particular focus on women or underrepresented founders. In addition, their portfolios look far more diverse than VC industry norms. Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Portfolio companies can contact us to learn more.) I recently chatted with Saurya about how he approaches hiring engineers at Google and what founders can learn. We also talked about how he’d want to be interviewed if approached by a non-technical startup founder. (I’ve office, right in the heart of MIT.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 5, 2016

At the beginning, a startup team is typically just a couple of co-founders. What we suggest at this juncture is that founders get acclimated to the tactics of scaling beyond the founding team. What to Address During Genesis Team Building: How do we divide and conquer responsibilities as co-founders? Below, I take a look at each.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 21, 2014

No one wants to be *that* founder--the non-technical founder poking around developer meetups asking for a unicorn with a Github account. They can help vet what you''re building, give you credibility in the hiring process and help assess candidates. Go find someone technical you could probably never hire.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

You have 5-10 years of professional experience as a technology operator, founder, and/or investor. You have a deep desire to hone your skills as a venture capitalist and are ready to hustle to meet the next great founder. You have a strong network in the NYC startup ecosystem that is additive to our team. You are hungry. A Final Note.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

It’s the antithesis of how founders want to build a business. And they are all very different from the business-to-consumer or business-to-business markets most founders and their investors are familiar with. Hire/advisors from the inside industry but use them to make you smarter not just to outsource the work.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

You hire people who look good on paper. So one of the surest signs you’ve hired a leader is the willingness of his or her former team to re-assemble. When you’re hiring most reference checkers focus on the person’s former bosses. Our founder, Yves Sisteron, was my mentor and board member at my first startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Portfolio company support & analysis. Portfolio community building. Smart founders use this extra resource to their advantage. Most firms hire associates straight out of MBA programs and usually it is a “2-3 years and out” type of job. Usually there roles are a combination of: Deal sourcing for partners.

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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. Don’t just hire the first promising candidate.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Dear Brightly (a NextView portfolio company) provides a telemedicine-powered ecommerce experience for prescription-grade retinoids so consumers no longer need to take time off work to go see a dermatologist for 10 minutes just to obtain a prescription for the serum. appeared first on NextView Ventures.

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View from Seed

APRIL 26, 2018

At the seed stage, hiring great people is one of the most important things to get right. I saw this first-hand at Blue Apron — I had to hire 30+ people across a ton of different functions in just under two years. If you have to hire several people this year, you won’t want to miss this session.

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

It is often written that founders ‘struggle to scale’ with a business, and this change in the skills required to lead a business explains why. Anyone who has observed a lot of startups grow will have witnessed brilliant founders who were talented at the chaotic process of innovation struggle as the business scaled to 50 or 100 people.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 11, 2022

Here are some of the many (public) highlights across the portfolio. . Stacks founder Muneeb Ali and his team raised $150M for a new entity to build the largest ecosystem of BTC applications called Trust Machines. Psst, they are both hiring! . Spring is here, and we’re well into 2022! Fundraising announcements.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

The Innovation Portfolio. Companies manage these three types of innovation with an innovation portfolio – they build innovation internally, they buy it or they partner with resources outside their company. And as part of their transition to predictable processes, their founders may or may not still be at the helm.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

Matt was the co-founder/CEO of Return Path. The founders of each company talked and, in between efforts to decimate the other, agreed it might be worth merging to survive. It’s a follow-up to his previous book, Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business. I’ve been working with Matt since 2000.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 16, 2023

I’ve been heads down working with K9 portfolio companies and spending my time running HiHello as the co-founder and CEO of that company. After 10 years of building K9, my knowledge and advice to founders were becoming dated. And of course, HiHello is hiring amazing high-quality engineers. Like a lot, a lot.

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

Managers of VC funds typically want to grow their business aggressively, just like the founders we back. Among the sites we have found most helpful with practical guides for founders: Biztree , First Search , Foundersuite , Goodwin Founders Workbench , Guides.co , Inc.com , and StartupRocket. . – Hire more Partners.

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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

MARCH 3, 2021

Over the past eight months, many companies in the Version One portfolio have released funding announcements including Uniswap , Jam , SilviaTerra , Patch , Premadonna , Cap Hill Brands , Opyn and Cape Privacy. Founder’s announcement. Arguably, the most powerful piece of content that can be written is by you, the founder.

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Social Media Technical Review Term Sheet PR 147

This is going to be BIG.

JULY 9, 2018

Recently, I helped one of my portfolio companies make a VP of Marketing hire. The founder asked me early in the process if I thought the candidate was good. Discipline also helps take responsibility off of a founder's plate--and that's something every founder needs and welcomes.

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Software Developers Software Development Portfolio Hiring 86

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 11, 2018

When I was a startup founder, I had this same issue. That's when I had a conversation with Max Ventilla, the founder of AltSchool, who at the time was running Aardvark. 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.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Before we head into the last quarter of the year, let’s take a few minutes to highlight some notable announcements made over the summer in the V1 portfolio. Laura Behrens Wu of Shippo was named to Inc’s second annual Female Founders 100 List , recognizing the women building America’s most innovative and ambitious businesses.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Jeff Katzenberg has a great track record – head of the studio at Paramount, chairman of Disney Studios, co-founder of DreamWorks and now chairman of NewTV. He just hired Meg Whitman. Startups wrote business plans, generated expansive 5-year forecasts and executed (hired, spent and built) to the plan. The result?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Rolodex/deal flow (deal sourcing/ability to make connections for the portfolio). Early-stage Venture Capital firms grow their partnerships in different ways, some hire: partners from other firms. an executive who had startup “operating experience” rarely a startup founder/CEO. People skills. People skills.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 21, 2013

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the unsung hero of many start-ups: the other founder. A lot has been written about the founder/CEO and her growth and evolution as a company grows. Larry Page is the other founder. The other founder usually begins with a particular range of responsibilities that comliment the founder.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Profiles of founders and advisors add credibility. Whether you create the site yourself or hire someone to help you, choose a proven website building platform, like WordPress, with templates that are easy to update and modify. Invest an hour a week looking at competitors’ web sites or viewing web designers’ portfolios.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The partner at the fund, the VC, gets to do the fun part—the meeting with founders, vetting deals, negotiating, helping, etc. Having a better overall portfolio of venture capital by adding funds into the mix. One way to measure that is to imagine the theoretical $500-$1mm angel round that a founder is looking to raise.

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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. Many founders confuse the two as they both involve lots of numbers. When to make your first analytics hire. So when should you start thinking about your first analytics hire?

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Version One Ventures

JULY 7, 2021

Interview 20-30 founders/operators on a variety of topics from hiring to running a board meeting, to fundraising. with the subject line “Contract Content Creator” and provide examples of your writing / your portfolio, as well as links to your social media (Twitter, LinkedIn, FB, Medium, etc.) Project scope: . by August 6, 2021.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 15, 2019

Hiring is key to the success of any business, but it can especially critical for startups. Most founders appreciate the importance of making good hires; however, when a startup is scaling rapidly, process often gets left behind. During the early stages, you are trying to hire athletes, not specialists.

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Genuine VC

JULY 9, 2013

Recently, we surveyed our Boston-based NextView portfolio Founder/CEOs asking them about which service provider firms they’ve been using. When we took the poll itself, one founder said: “This is a great idea. We would have loved to have it when we were getting started.”

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 13, 2020

A hire or two that you should have been able to close won’t join. Are you a founder who trained themselves to become a better salesperson? Highlighted Homebrew Portfolio Jobs. You may end up decreasing the quality of outcomes by a standard deviation or more. How does this harm occur? Notes and More. No, seriously, they are.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 17, 2017

by Anand Srinivasan, founder of LeadJoint.com . On the other hand, if your business is successful, you may always use your personal brand to expand your portfolio or to launch newer businesses. This is fine as long as you do not hire people or choose not to outsource any component of your business to a third party agency.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 2, 2022

Most hiring processes start with an antiquated assumption that companies select people to work for them. Here are a few tips we’ve been giving portfolio founders: Limit the Time Between The Offer and Start Date. If you’ve got other strategies to help prevent new hire ghosting, reply here or tweet at me.

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www.kernelmag.com

MARCH 8, 2012

The Scene Developers Nailing that elusive technical co-founder. Just last week, start-up supremo Naval Ravikant of AngelList wrote how the “oversupply” of founders starting companies is making it harder to hire for the average startup. Are there any ‘Founders Dating’ events coming up?”. Thursday, 8 March 2012.

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