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APRIL 11, 2019

The last thing you want to do is go through all the time and energy of finding and hiring a new employee only to find out, after you’ve extended the offer, that they’re not a good fit. Below are some tips to help you avoid the pitfalls of a bad hire and ensure you’re using your time wisely. It happens all of the time.

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DECEMBER 3, 2015

Retaining engineering talent has become an increasingly challenging task for any engineering manager in the Bay Area. Hiring and onboarding new engineers are time consuming and expensive. Even so, retention is still something I have to constantly focus on as an engineering manager. Is the engineer primarily motivated by money?

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JANUARY 5, 2016

Even experienced startup execs who have hired and built teams sometimes find there are nuances to learn between building a team within a larger company versus hiring the first dozen folks in a startup. To people and culture management in general? A middle manager layer after that? It’s a moving target.

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DECEMBER 17, 2015

I recently chatted with Saurya about how he approaches hiring engineers at Google and what founders can learn. We hire generalists because the company wants to be able to dissolve one division one day if it’s not working, and then move those same people into something else that’s new or already working.

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JULY 5, 2022

CC: Our customers are companies that are collecting, managing, and tracking their ESG data. . One hour I’m deep into product development, the next I’m thinking about our hiring needs and recruiting, to the next on a sales call. RH: Who are your customers? My favorite part is how many different hats I wear.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Many startup CEOs hire COOs or launch companies with a co-founder carrying the title. When should founders hire one? Do you need highly skilled functional managers or do you need a true partner? Suffice to say, if you’re hiring a COO at your startup, you’re about to make some tough tradeoffs. Based on what criteria?

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MARCH 4, 2020

I’m quite optimistic about the direction that this is headed based on the momentum of more diverse hiring in the junior and mid-level ranks of the industry. I think we’ll see more seed managers on the list going forward, with quite a few more seed funds joining First Round Capital among the firms with multiple Midas List GPs.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2022

NextView is a thematic, seed-stage VC firm focused on the Everyday Economy with $500M+ of capital under management. You will be based in the NYC office but will be able to pursue investments across North America. About NextView.

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APRIL 21, 2015

But it was great experience to put yourself in an uncomfortable place to manage 90 Type A personalities. Do you find yourself hiring operators or PMs with that background? I have, and would consider, hiring people with business school backgrounds. Poort: The Entrepreneurial Manager. Prince: Business History.

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APRIL 30, 2015

Below, we talk to Glen Mello , Managing Director of Silicon Valley Bank’s accelerator team in Boston. We’d look at a company and the relationship we have with investors, management team, founders, etc. As a startup grows, venture debt becomes a viable option to continue that growth. first and foremost.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2015

I called the recruiter running the search and told him I was going to step down and hire a CEO. So, in order to hire a CEO, we have to give someone their first shot at the job.” Yes, it is hard to manage. It’s nice to get great valuations and hire A-players. Backupify was managed for momentum. Keep at it.

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APRIL 8, 2020

Take some of that outbound effort, and task salespeople to account manager efforts. Another thing you should slow down with is hiring. So track who you want to hire, and watch, and connect with them during this time. Have them focus on retention and growth in your existing accounts that have seen success.

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APRIL 5, 2016

Rachael is enrolled at the Startup Institute , an eight-week program that teaches its pupils the nuances of web development, web design, technical marketing, or sales and account management. She is a student on the web development track—and based on her background, that might seem a little hard to believe.

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MARCH 16, 2016

These companies have a long way to go until global dominance in many cases, but they are all growing, hiring, and strengthening the local community right now. Most impressively, there seems to be a thriving startup of every flavor, with many more joining the list of Pillar Startups on the Guide in 2016 compared to 2015.

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APRIL 2, 2015

These all serve as doorways to different but important audiences that a founder needs to impress, ranging from investors to target customers or users to potential new hires. To focus on hiring briefly: Seed-stage startups lack early traction but make up for it with tons of promise. To name a few: For decks, try Haiku Deck.

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AUGUST 5, 2014

We started the process of building our company culture early, before we hired any employees, by writing down our desired values. Hiring: We look for people oriented towards (even obsessed with) learning and growth. Our operations manager Rob notes that he wouldn’t have been able to get a pup without this flexibility.

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JANUARY 13, 2015

Someone with experience and relationships in the company’s target market are better at landing early customers, negotiating more favorable deals, building out and managing sales teams, and raising more money earlier to build a more robust product. So they are similarly making the judgment of where to allocate resources.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Most startups don’t have the luxury of hiring an experienced PM early in their journey. Many founders have to turn to brute force to figure it out, even when they themselves don’t have practitioner product management experience. The post How to Build a Great Product Before Hiring Your First PM appeared first on NextView Ventures.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2016

As a result, the interview process during the seed stage can feel a bit more meandering to the hiring manager — who is most likely the founder(s) given the size and stage of the company. Here’s what we learned… Hire a Missionary. If it’s a seed-stage hire, you should already know the person.

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APRIL 18, 2018

Also, anyone who might be interested in bringing on an early marketing leader should definitely do whatever they can to try to hire her. . In this role, you will manage several of our current founder-focused initiatives (e.g. as well as developing new ways for us to proactively engage with the founder community.

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JANUARY 24, 2018

And they tell us over and over again that they just care about four things: Hiring and developing a great team. He has over 10 years experience in growth and product management and has built data-driven product teams from the ground up at multiple successful startups. Building a great product. Getting more customers.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2016

52% are in two subsectors alone (wealth management and lending). Buzzfeed, Vox, Vice acquired 14 startups and raised $1.5B in the last 4 years. FinTech Prominent but Dollars Narrowly Focused: 2015 in NYC saw 96 total VC deals in fintech.

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AUGUST 27, 2014

The best writer I ever hired at a startup wasn’t a former journalist. The best writer I ever hired at a startup didn’t have a resume. The best writer I ever hired at a startup is trying to work at your startup all the time, but 99 out of 100 times, you pass. Why We All Usually Botch This Hire.

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JULY 28, 2015

I recall that when I was a management consultant at The Parthenon Group, a pretty analytical place, one of my friends in our associate class was clearly the most analytical one in the bunch. The key is finding people (and sources of talent) that tend to deliver the individuals that are 10X more effective with analytics than their peers.

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

Recently, we got a group of Product Managers from our portfolio together to chat with Fareed Mosavat about all things growth. But I do think that if you want to find somebody who’s good at everything, and talked to a bunch of folks trying to hire product managers, it’s like ‘oh everybody’s missing something’.

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