Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2012

He’s also hiring two positions – both of which report to him. Phil is an incredible thinker, totally understands entrepreneurship, is on a quest to level up law school education, and is my guide to all things politics. Simply put, he’s awesome.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 13, 2013

The Deming Center for Entrepreneurship at CU is looking to hire a new Director. The post CU Deming Center of Entrepreneurship Is Hiring A New Director appeared first on Feld Thoughts. It actively engages the community members of Boulder in order to accomplish this. Jobs cu deming center Entrepreneurship'

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 23, 2016

The post Failing Fast At The Idea of Hiring A Writer + WordPress Person appeared first on Feld Thoughts. So, for now, I’m going to rescind my previous post titled Looking for a Writer and a WordPress Goddess and keep pondering things.

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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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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Hire Harper Reed as CTO of Healthcare.gov, give him the ball and 100% of the budget, and let him run with it. And let them hire a team – using all the budget for individual hires, not government contractors or consulting firms. Fire all of the contractors. But put one person – a CTO – in charge.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 30, 2011

It’s an extremely tight hiring market for software developers right now. So – if you are hiring – read Chris’s post and be thoughtful about how you go about this. I expect this to continue for a while given the obvious supply / demand imbalance for great people.

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MARCH 15, 2015

The post AppDirect Is Hiring After Closing a $50 Million Financing appeared first on Feld Thoughts. AppDirect is growing like crazy and they plan to open more offices, in Silicon Valley and around the world, in the coming months. Investments appdirect Jobs standing cloud'

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 23, 2012

I’ve written a lot in the last year about how fast Gnip is growing and how they continue to lead their industry. Many of Gnip ‘s customers and partners are in the bay area and they have decided to begin adding people in San Francisco to better support those clients.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

It’s tons of information, organized well, in tight, bite-sized chunks. For example, here are the chapters in Part Five: Sales by Anita Absey (p.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 6, 2016

If a client hires an apprentice, Techtonic does not charge a conversion fee, which can run into the thousands for a junior developer hired through a traditional recruiter. As Heather told me, “I have an Ivy League education, but that’s not where I learned to code.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 16, 2016

Recruits, hires, and retains the very best talent for the company. Let’s focus on “ recruits, hires, and retains the very best talent for the company.” Per Fred Wilson’s famous post What A CEO Does , this is one of the three key responsibilities of a CEO. “A CEO does only three things.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

They close on the $750k, hire a buddy or two, buy some Macs, and get to work. Things start to get a little fuzzy in terms of priorities, but not to fret, the new office is coming along really well with all of the hiring! At month six, one of the early hires leaves, a developer who turns out wasn’t a good fit.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 2, 2021

Your company hires and pays your intern(s). You can hire an intern out of your own pool of candidates or, alternatively, let us know and we will get you student resumes from individuals who have reached out to us. Startup Summer is a free offering that enhances your company’s internship program.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 3, 2012

Once again we are in a zone where hiring software developers is incredibly challenging. The market is fully employed and while there is some movement between companies, great developers tend to be decided to what they are doing for a while, especially in an entrepreneurial context. Last night I was at Angel Boot Camp in Boston.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2014

They hired someone else to wash the dishes and clean the house. I was able to hire a friend to work about ten hours a week over the course of a month to research outlets, draft cover letters, and send out review copies. For my second novel, I hired someone to research Amazon’s top reviewers for me. Guess what?

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JUNE 5, 2014

That is the equivalent of needing a babysitter and hiring a dingo.”. - . - On the Appointment of Former Cable/Wireless Industry Front Man Tom Wheeler As FCC Chair: “The guy who used to run the cable industry’s lobbying arm is now running the agency tasked with regulating it.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Over the next year, they are planning to hire 50 people for the engineering team and about 70 across the entire company. The post JumpCloud is Hiring 50 Engineers in Boulder appeared first on Feld Thoughts. JumpCloud is focused on delivering cloud-based directory services via a SaaS model.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

During Black Friday season, ask your company or organization: Are you considering Black-owned Professional Services Companies when hiring vendors? ?I Help grow the US economy by $5 Trillion. I request [@Friend One], [@Friend Two] and [@Friend Three] to also “Do The BOB” by sharing the logo and text on social media. ?Learn

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JUNE 9, 2021

It’s tons of information, organized well, in tight, bite-sized chunks. For example, here are the chapters in Part Five: Sales by Anita Absey (p.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 2, 2021

Your company hires and pays your intern(s). You can hire an intern out of your own pool of candidates or, alternatively, let us know and we will get you student resumes from individuals who have reached out to us. Startup Summer is a free offering that enhances your company’s internship program.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 8, 2017

We very rarely hire anyone at Foundry Group (although we are hiring an Executive Assistant ). However, many of the companies we invest in are often hiring. Over the years we’ve had a Foundry Group Jobs Page but we’ve never found software that was painless for us to use to keep it current.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 5, 2011

Oh, and they are hiring as fast as they can find great people ; across the spectrum (business, sales, & engineering). I’m super proud of Jud and the team he’s built at Gnip.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2014

Shortly after that VC investment, the VCs hired a new “professional” CEO who lasted less than a year before being replaced by a CEO who then did a great job building the company. Some were tough experiences for me, like NetGenesis, which was the first angel investment I made.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

I know the near term plans for Bolster and there’s an enormous amount of value coming quickly around executive and board hires, especially on the dimension of networks, inclusion, and diversity. It’s a great example of our investment strategy around a network model.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

When I talked to a headhunter recently, in the midst of the worst market for legal jobs ever, she told me that the one employer who was always hiring people with experience in patents was IV. So, anecdotally, they hire a lot of lawyers. They set up a lot of shell companies. Now think about where this money would go otherwise.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 11, 2012

Startups thrive when each person hired is smarter than the person hiring them. Ask CEOs of successful startups about their biggest challenge and they’ll often cite the inability to hire great people. By the way, Gnip is hiring ! Don’t agree with everything I say. I’m wrong… A LOT. Challenge me.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 17, 2013

The same is true of hiring an executive. Dick made the point that the cliche “only hire A players” is completely obvious and banal. CEOs don’t run around saying “hey – let’s hire C players – that’s what we want – C players.”

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

Gnip Is Hiring : Sales people and engineers in Boulder. Every entrepreneur should read it. I’d also encourage every VC and angel investor to read it. Bottom line – there is a difference between “want&# and “need.&#. Renee is in film school and doing amazing work.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 13, 2021

Funny enough, we still didn’t think we were going to do anything, but the managing director for Techstars (who I later ended up hiring) told me that Foundry Group is super legit. She was able to quickly get up to speed on the company we were building and my vision for Gig Wage.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 22, 2012

This week I wanted to cover a simple process for hiring managers to follow when communicating with candidates about salary requirements. As the hiring manager, you need to ensure that a candidate has fully considered their compensation needs before you make an offer. Oh, by the way, Gnip is hiring ! Enjoy and comment freely!

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 26, 2017

When our prior fund hired Jason as our general counsel, I wasn’t even part of the decision. While Jason has proclaimed himself a recovering lawyer for some time now, in reality, he’s been doing the high-level legal work for us since we started Foundry Group. Back then, people would just show up and occupy various offices.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

The innovators of tomorrow are ill-equipped to hire lobbyists and thus it is crucial that enlightened political leaders, like you both, take the time, effort, and care to engage with the technology community to ensure that an environment that supports innovation remain in place.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 3, 2013

And larger law firms are significantly cutting back on their entry-level hiring. Challenge employers on entry-level hiring. Challenging employers to think differently about entry-level hiring and summer jobs is a critical to adjusting to the New Normal. And it’s no secret why. Engage with the community.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 31, 2012

And, of course, I should say that Oblong is hiring. Fab and prototyping capabilities are clearly on the same downward-sloping, creativity-enabling, curve as cameras and studio gear. I want a replicator ! We think the evolution of the multi-device, multi-screen, multi-user future is amazingly interesting.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

During one of the Techstars Boston cohorts where I’ve been Mentor-in-Residence, I worked with a 20-something CEO founder (code named Mary) who, shortly after raising a seed round of several million dollars, hired a high-powered exec, granting a significant equity option.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 9, 2011

The solution so far has seemed to be “hire more people to process more paper faster.&# While this one is talked about regularly by the people in government that I know, the regulatory environment just seems to get more and more complicated.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 16, 2012

Hiring great people is intensely competitive in my world. And yes – FullContact is hiring. It was fun to watch this go viral and get picked up nationally on programs like Good Morning America and Fox News with Neil Cavuto. I love the creativity of FullContact’s approach to Paid PAID vacation.

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