crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

William Hurley, co-founder of Honest Dollar , an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits. It’s an incredibly innovative city.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

It’s the one thing I miss having switched from player to manager – I love the joy of winning and of competing. Next year I’m going to spend time in Seattle and Boulder in addition. I realized that it is not enough to know one partner per firm and it is not enough for only the management team to like you.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

It’s the one thing I miss having switched from player to manager – I love the joy of winning and of competing. Next year I’m going to spend time in Seattle and Boulder in addition. I realized that it is not enough to know one partner per firm and it is not enough for only the management team to like you.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2015

Second, we should examine how our competencies (eg a teacher’s ability to do planning and manage people) can undertake “skill transformation” to suit a specific business. One should also determine if outsourcing to virtual assistants, subcontracting and hiring employees would truly work. 4 Compelling offer.

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OnlyOnce

AUGUST 19, 2015

I wrote about the initial concept when we launched v2 of the program , and then again when v2 concluded with the hiring of four of the six participants. SendGrid , ReadyTalk , MWH Global , and SpotXchange will participate in the program in the Denver area, and Seattle-based Moz will participate as well.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

At 24 I was putting myself through college and running the creative services department at an energy systems engineering firm in Seattle when the company was purchased by a French firm. I was having trouble managing remote teams and keeping track of their billable hours after working with them for a long, therefore Hubstaff was born.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

We bridge the gap between employees and construction companies and at times it can get difficult because you have to manage not just businesses but also emotions. On Wednesdays, I cut my call calendar short so I can pick up my daughter after school and dodge through Seattle traffic to get her to her riding lesson.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

Share this: We’ve seen a flurry of activity in recent weeks among Seattle area venture capital firms, led by Madrona Venture Group which raised $300 million last month and Divergent Ventures which pulled in $6.9 But Seattle entrepreneur Aaron Roberts, a former engineer… Read More. Location: Seattle. Featured Jobs.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 19, 2021

Evocalize is actively hiring for the new location and has open positions in Sales, Client Success, and Engineering. Prior to founding Evocalize, Matthew most recently served as a product management executive at Austin-based Bazaarvoice. Evocalize has established deep longstanding partnerships with Facebook and Google.

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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 Joel met his co-founder for Fog Creek software and learned a valuable management lesson. While it was not a widespread problem, there was an element of micro-management at the wrong levels. 15 minutes. Pricing information.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

William Hurley, co-founder of Honest Dollar , an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits. It’s an incredibly innovative city.

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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. You can’t let every team hire as many team members as they want. A Sense of Purpose.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

And we are just starting our first year in Seattle.”…” Of the Boulder companies there have been 41 companies that have gone through the Boulder program and there is some mortality…” “I guess it’s 5 or 6 that have failed. Product Management – Brad and Mark discuss the role of Product Managers in Startups.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Why the position matters to Austin tech and how you can make your voice heard Last Monday, Mayor Steve Adler revealed the six final candidates for Austin’s open City Manager position in a post on the City’s message board. Choosing a City Manager is one of the most important decisions any City Council makes.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 4, 2017

Both Abstract (who’s building a common infrastructure to support the modern design workflow) and Manifold (working to secure and manage config secrets across teams, environments and services) released their private alphas. Should you move to a managed marketplace model? Clio and Top Hat ranked in the Deloitte Fast 50.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Operating experience (Helped run parts of CitySearch & UrbanSpoon, tons of product management experience, Board of Hatch Labs which helped spawn Tinder). People often ask me what VCs look for when we hire partners and many have asked how to become VCs themselves one day. She has been in operations in Seattle and Los Angeles.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2013

Just ask the people of Portland, Seattle, Boulder, Iowa, Princeton, Dallas or countless other cities that don’t have enough venture capital. They also view it as a responsibility of the money they manage on behalf of others to provide oversight of these companies. He would be a very senior hire for us and filling an urgent gap.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Q&A: Group Commerce Plans Hires, European Growth with $21M Funding. View More in Seattle ›. Managing Director, Enterprise Partners. Seattle Events ›. He tells me the firm has made 21 investments since mid-2010, and Correlation now has more than $165 million under management. View More in New York › ›.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Austrian Airlines was hiring students for passenger handling and boarding during peak seasons. He specializes in aviation law, finance and international project management. I loved this job! At 10:30am I received a phone call from the law firm representing the airport and major airlines in Austria.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 6, 2019

Whether it’s in West Palm Beach, Manhattan, or Seattle, this is the goal of coworking spaces – and it’s enjoying mass appeal. If you sign a lease for a 20-person office and your business grows to a point that you need to hire 20 additional employees, you’re stuck between a rock and a hard place. Networking Opportunities.

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adamac.blogspot.com

MARCH 9, 2010

It follows that an "idea guy" who "just needs to hire a few engineers" probably isnt running a tech startup. An HR Department After a certain point, all companies need someone in charge of hiring just to deal with screening, scheduling, and general process, but most startups dont fall into this bag. Thats a REALLY bad sign.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

For starters they has asked him to hire a CEO (Hamet was a first timer) and that person lived in Seattle even though NextMedium was based in LA. After I became co-managing director I pushed our firm to start adding more talent how had a mix of operational, startup experience and some form of investment experience.

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www.allthingsdistributed.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Technology Visionary andOperations Manager – This pattern is usually found in dot.com and othertechnology-oriented companies where information technology is key ingredient inimplementing business strategy. In this pattern the CTO is often a co-founder ofthe business, or one of the first hires.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 6, 2020

This is especially true for companies headquartered in Silicon Valley, Seattle, and New York. It seems pretty clear that a very large, single location company in Silicon Valley, New York, Seattle, and several other cities (e.g. LA, Boston) is getting much more challenging. Sure, it’s possible, but is it advisable?

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 31, 2011

A bunch of our portfolio companies are hiring. Just today, I got emails about new job pages at Cheezburger (Seattle and NY), SendGrid (Boulder and LA), and Attachments.me (Bay Area). And if you are looking for something in Boulder, don’t forget that I manage a CEO list that I’ll happily email your resume to.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

I would know: my current line of work forces me to be on the forefront of hiring and placing people into positions. This is how influential social media has become: David Van Maren, a former talent agent in Seattle and Los Angeles, told me it’s not uncommon for scouts to discover models on Facebook. People Hire Those They Know.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

I believed in my own abilities for greatness and financial abundance but I did not trust to leave my advancement to the hands of managers and bosses. Image Credit: Seattle Sutton. Thanks to Seattle Sutton ! #8 I felt that I gave so much of myself for very little reward. Thanks to Robin Smith, WeGoLook ! #7

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

The Foundations of the Seattle startup community. Cincinnati has had the accelerator The Brandery for several years, which caters to the great strengths of design and brand management that are dominant in this city. million under management across three funds. The Components of any Great startup community. We have invested $17.3

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2013

She learns how to ship product, how to deal with merchants, how to hire product managers. Somehow she was always on a flight up to Seattle or San Francisco. She had previously acquired UrbanSpoon. Now she was tasked with running it. She was a young mom back then. Sheryl Sandberg leans in? Kara perfected that.

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keen.io

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

I recently left my job as a technical consulting manager and joined my best friends and my fiancé, Kyle, at Keen.io (I wrote about that here ). On the other hand, this was new territory for the founders as well; they had zero experience making offers to new startup hires. Engineer, arranger, communicator, amateur photographer.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Adam Benzion is the founder of Entirely —a Seattle startup focused on social innovation, keen on connecting more people in more places to create special things together. . WeWork, Seattle’s South Lake Union Neighborhood. My office at WeWork in Seattle is cool, energizing and complete. Your day is finally here.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Silicon Valleydominates, then Boston, then Seattle, Austin, Denver, and New York. Standards arehigher; people are more sympathetic to what youre doing; the kindof people you want to hire want to live there; supporting industriesare there; the people you run into in chance meetings are in thesame business. Afterthat theres not much.

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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. David Einhorn, Influential Hedge Fund Manager, Calls. Hiring the best developers is essential because a great developer is easily 3 times as productive as an average developer, yet their salaries are usually similar.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Rover.com (*) in Seattle, which was founded by Greg Gottesman and Aaron Easterly in 2011, is the leading player in this market. Once again, this is an asset against which the marginal cost to host a dog is near zero. Benchmark is an investor in Rover through a merger with DogVacay in 2017). “The

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 27, 2012

Zite CEO Mark Johnson (who recently sold the company to CNN for more than $20 million) stressed that when it comes to acquisitions, you don't want to be empty handed with a bunch of unfulfilled promises if management changes or if there's less follow-through than you'd expected. Hire Hackers, Hustlers And Hipsters.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Look beyond California and you have group purchasing (GroupOn in Chicago, LivingSocial in Washington DC), private sales (Gilt Groupe in NY, HauteLook in LA), artisan marketplaces (Etsy in NY), eCommerce (Amazon in Seattle) and on and on. It’s fucking hard hiring right now.&#. Imagine your company hiring in the Valley.

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