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CU Deming Center of Entrepreneurship Is Hiring A New Director

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The Deming Center for Entrepreneurship at CU is looking to hire a new Director. The Deming Center also partners closely with Silicon Flatirons and other CU organizations to put on events such as the New Venture Challenge, Productive Collisions, and annually hosts the regional Venture Capital Investment Competition for MBA students.

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Hire a VP Finance Sooner Rather Than Later

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If you don’t have a VP Finance on your team reporting to you, do yourself, your team, and your investors a favor and go hire one right now. At Feld Technologies, our fourth employee (hired in 1989) did all of our accounting. At that point, we hired a woman named Stephanie Wallace to be our Controller. This is not a CFO.

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My First Experience As A Venture Capitalist

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When people ask me how they can become a VC, I point them to my partner Seth Levine’s excellent blog posts How to become a venture capitalist and How to get a job in venture capital (revisited). Charley was a partner at a firm called VIMAC and was looking at some Internet stuff.

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Gnip is Hiring In San Francisco

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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. I’ve written a lot in the last year about how fast Gnip is growing and how they continue to lead their industry.

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How to Find the Time to Accomplish Anything

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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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Bolster and the Next Executive Network

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If you take a look at the Foundry Group partner funds or talk to us about our investment strategy, you’ll immediately see the texture of a network. Historically, almost everything I do uses a network model. Foundry Group runs as a network. Techstars is a worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed.

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Linking Around On A Sunday Morning

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Gnip Is Hiring : Sales people and engineers in Boulder. I’m a huge Tim fan and am psyched to see what Tim and his partners are accomplishing at RoundPegg. Every entrepreneur should read it. I’d also encourage every VC and angel investor to read it. Renee is in film school and doing amazing work.