ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 31, 2023

In order to build a successful Shopify store, many users may choose to hire someone with expertise in these areas. The Shopify Experts marketplace operates with the Shopify Partner program — the actual site and community management system. The program will provide you with a dashboard for managing and building client sites.

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Curation Portfolio eCommerce Programming 140

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This blog aims to guide you through the process, from the initial steps of conducting market research to operational management, hiring staff, and more. Hiring Staff Your staff will often be the face of your business, interacting directly with customers. Finding the sweet spot where quality meets affordability is key.

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Balance Sheet Technical Review Business Model Business Plan 107

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

State Regulation In addition to federal laws, each State has its own regulatory environment that applies to businesses operating within the state in areas such as land-use , zoning, motor vehicles, state banking, building codes, public utilities, drug laws, etc. Eventually you’ll need to build an in-house team to manage regulatory affairs.

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Washington Government Marketing Silicon Valley 271

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? We have lower AUM, therefore lower management fees. Many VCs offer (or strive to offer) a bundle of levers and support structures to help their portfolio companies.

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David Teten

MARCH 28, 2012

Best Practices in Venture Capital Portfolio Company Value Creation. In addition, in light of increasing competition in the startup funding space, a methodology for helping portfolio companies consistently is a strong competitive advantage. I’ve also posted this at Betabeat.). View more presentations from David Teten.

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Portfolio Private Equity Venture Capital Early Stage 144

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Portfolio company support & analysis. Portfolio community building. Most firms hire associates straight out of MBA programs and usually it is a “2-3 years and out” type of job. At Upfront VC we have a very strict policy to hire pre MBAs into the role. Deal screening. Industry reviews. VC firm admin.

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Jordan Technical Review Portfolio Partner 365

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

As your organization grows and you hire senior staff where you are no longer managing every employee directly the issue of how to manage people that are not your “direct&# reports arises. As a content management system we had lots of write activities and went with Postgres. Senior management feels undermined.

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CTO Hire Management Technical Review Part-Time VPE 308

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. Stuart Lander has joined Upfront Ventures to help us run operations.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2014

By Russell Harley, veteran project manager and Director at PMO. Just like many other areas of project management, they have their benefits and their challenges. The company decided there was enough work to justify hiring Neo, our software engineer. Matrix teams are a common method of staffing projects. Time has no meaning.

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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 will spend the rest of your time working alongside the partners throughout the investment process – analyzing investment opportunities, assisting in market research and diligence, and post-investment portfolio support.

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Technical Review North America Seed Stage Bandwidth 156

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

If you are looking to expand your leadership team or board , are looking for a part-time executive role or board role , or are an investor looking for fractional executives to join your portfolio companies , you should become part of the Bolster network right now.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2019

Realizing that you can gain education from both environments allows an opportunity for you to thrive as an employee and manage a successful side hustle. As a result of limited job functions in a large corporate environment, it doesn’t give you the full breadth of work involved in successfully managing an enterprise.

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Small Business Administration SBA Portfolio Small Business 140

The Startup Magazine

APRIL 28, 2022

The best thing about this model is that businesses can save costs on hiring, training, and maintaining in-house support staff. It helps you pick the right partners and service portfolio for your business. With such a partner, you have the option to outsource or manage tech internally, just the way you want and need.

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Technical Review Partner Reputation Portfolio 119

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

(Almost) everything you need to know (but are afraid to ask) before you wistfully ask a product manager to coffee so they will help you find a job. TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies.

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Management Product Technical Review Software Review 85

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. Often they have brought in an operating executive as the new CEO. Five Types of Innovation to Buy.

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Acquisition Intellectual Property Silicon Valley Startup 332

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Running a company is distinctly different from simply having operating experience – (working in bus dev, sales or marketing.) Rolodex/deal flow (deal sourcing/ability to make connections for the portfolio). Board skills (Startup coaching, mentoring, strategy, operational/growth). People skills. Fund raising skills.

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Venture Capital Early Stage Technical Review Startup 332

David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

Managers of VC funds typically want to grow their business aggressively, just like the founders we back. I’ve listed them below in *very* roughly descending order of efficiency, measured by increased dollars one can put to work, divided by the operational dollars required to implement each strategy. .

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

8- Property management Photo Credit: Jaden Oh Property management is a good way to make money, especially if you already know how to run a business or are good at making software for property management. It's just that many homeowners in this city don't have the time to manage multiple properties.

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Software Review Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur 118

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

I would call their portfolio companies and ask how helpful or not they’ve been. Industry or Operating Experience? It felt like there was a wavelength with management and somebody wasn’t on it. I know many VCs who don’t have operating experience and frankly some of them are fantastic. FourSquare.

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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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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. Explain that your service manages the entire process. Data management. What are the Challenges?

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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. Analytics is about designing, reporting, and leveraging operating metrics to aid strategic and functional decision-making. When to make your first analytics hire.

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Analytics Hiring SQL Forecast 149

Haystack

JANUARY 20, 2019

As a result of going more slowly, I had the time to make a few mistakes to learn some lessons, but the mistakes were never too big to leave a massive crater in the total value of the portfolio. As such, I feel like it really took me 4-5 years to internalize how all the aspects of fund management come together.

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Management Portfolio Hiring Operations 137

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

One example is that they introduced a program where their founders can pool together shares from their company and exchange them for a small portfolio of other First Round Capital companies. Howard Morgan earned a PhD in Operations Research/Computer Science in 1968. I'm a huge fan of this innovation. They have sixteen people on staff.

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Pre-Money Valuation Technical Review Cofounder Cram Down 284

Women Entrepreneurs Can

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

To stay competitive, it’s important to invest in the latest technologies that can help streamline operations, reduce overhead costs, and improve customer service. It is also wise to diversify your portfolio by investing in different types of products so that you don’t experience significant losses due to changes in the markets.

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Artificial Inteligence Guerilla Technical Review Stock Options 52

Hunter Walker

JUNE 7, 2014

Not because they’re all operating in stealth or pre-product – in fact some already are earning $1m+ in revenue per annum. 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. What’s changed?

Technical Review 117

Technical Review CTO Hire Finance Stealth 117

Cracking the Code

MAY 2, 2019

To get an insight into how successful start-ups approach team building, we spoke to Sylvain Utard, employee number 1 and VP of Engineering at Algolia, an Accel portfolio company. We make sure the hiring managers are involved in the entire recruitment process, from sourcing candidates and selling the company.

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Part-Time VPE Engineer Retention API 48

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2010

When you hire people in functional roles they want to show that they’re achieving results and results are easiest to measure by tasks accomplished. But many CEO’s and management teams fail to set clear guidelines on what the company objectives are and make sure that everybody is driving toward the same goal.

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Development Team Review SEM Channel Social Media 323

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Patch , an API platform for negative emissions, raised a $20M Series A led by Coatue Management with participation from existing investors ( Andreessen Horowitz, Pale Blue Dot and us!). Coatue Management led the round with participation from existing investors (Andreessen Horowitz, GV and us!)

Portfolio 60

Portfolio Canada API Valuation 60

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

In fact, it was only 7 years ago that Apple shipped its first iPhone and Google introduced its Android operating system. But the world you lead will be much different from the one your professors knew or your predecessors managed. The question for all of you is … “ What will it take to inspire and manage this kind of innovation?”.

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Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

He just hired Meg Whitman. Startups wrote business plans, generated expansive 5-year forecasts and executed (hired, spent and built) to the plan. Massive liquidity awaited the first movers to the IPO’s, and that’s how they managed their portfolios. the ex-CEO of HP and eBay, as CEO of NewTV. The result?

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Lean Burn Rate Startup IPO 335

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

If you are looking to expand your leadership team or board , are looking for a part-time executive role or board role , or are an investor looking for fractional executives to join your portfolio companies , you should become part of the Bolster network right now.

Fractional CTO 70

Fractional CTO Cofounder Startup Lead Investor 70

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 28, 2014

If you’re reaching the point where there just aren’t enough hours in the day, should you hire some employees and create an in-house team, or outsource as many roles as possible as you work to get your business to scale? Many businesses run a hybrid model mixing both in-house and outsourced operational support as they expand.

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Hiring New York City New York Forecast 189

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 5, 2020

Unlike professional hires, most college interns are unaccustomed to a corporate position. They require more hands-on management from end-to-end. Find ways to get interns involved in meetings to learn more about the business and how it operates. Ideally, interns will have completed a portfolio of work at the end of the summer.

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Programming Startup Hiring Portfolio 264

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

portfolios. Great product managers who are not great business people still often fail. How many people will you hire in the first 24 months and in which sequence. I won’t need to hire many engineers or customer support staff. 66% Net Operating Margins? Cisco and others went out to fill out their Web 2.0

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Business Plan AJAX Venture Capital Technical Review 334

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. That’s then passed onto a hiring committee, and they compare the feedback from all interviewers and the various scores, and they ultimately make the final decision.

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Technical Review Engineer Software Review Founder 120

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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