crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Lazlo Bock talks about hiring at Google, and why the GPA is irrelevant | by Stowe Boyd – crowdspring.co/NpqF71. Lazlo Bock talks about hiring at Google, and why the GPA is irrelevant | by Stowe Boyd – crowdspring.co/NpqF71. Hire a Winning Employee: 5 Tips | Inc – crowdspring.co/1fobkdl. 1eaPz56.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 28, 2018

In fact, hiring a designer from a freelancers’ site like Upwork.com can cost you anything between $18 and $70 per hour. Another cheaper option is to hire a student to get your website design done. In fact, many of them will do the job just for a portfolio credit. You will probably hire a writer. Conclusion. Be patient.

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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. Then one day it was over.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 7, 2014

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. Startups instead are identifying early adopting communities in their specific niches and going after them outside of corporate-based PR. What’s changed?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard. Hire fewer employees until you’re bursting at the seems with work for the ones you have.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

Of course it is super helpful if a VC can drop you in to important people for business development, recruiting, PR, sales and eventually M&A. I would call their portfolio companies and ask how helpful or not they’ve been. look at their portfolio list. Connections? I’ll let you decide which you’d want.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Hire People Who Make Things Happen – crowdspring.co/1fMczta. Hire People Who Make Things Happen – crowdspring.co/1fMczta. 50 Beautifully Simple Portfolio Websites For Your Inspiration – crowdspring.co/18GaqJP. 50 Beautifully Simple Portfolio Websites For Your Inspiration – crowdspring.co/18GaqJP.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2014

“the people you fire are more important to your [company''s] culture than the people you hire.” 5 Ways to Hire the Best Talent for Your Startup Team – crowdspring.co/1ptyfds. 7 Rules of Perfect Portfolio Websites – crowdspring.co/YTR0jA. ” – crowdspring.co/1slKVZ2. React – crowdspring.co/1yHa1WB.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

They might struggle to hire a-players because, well, would you go work at Public Storage to build their software capabilities? That marketing can be PR or SEO or influencer distribution or other forms of “unpaid” marketing. Our portfolio company Ring had a new “security doorbell” which is truly a new market.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 9, 2014

Words of wisdom from Bonobos: don’t hire for experience – crowdspring.co/1nQ25Mo. 23 Inspiringly Beautiful Portfolio Designs – crowdspring.co/1mVP03W. 23 Inspiringly Beautiful Portfolio Designs – crowdspring.co/1mVP03W. ” – crowdspring.co/1j0HTod.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Nicole most recently comes to us from SmartBear Software , where she was responsible for the launch and marketing for an entire product: overseeing activities like PR, creative, content creation, and social media engagement. We want to help founders both inside and outside of our portfolio with the things which we think matter most: 1.

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

Successful pinball companies didn’t hire Hollywood talent. Meanwhile our company was pouring an enormous amount of dollars into building tools and video compression technology, while also hiring a lot of high-priced Hollywood talent like art directors, and script and story editors. I know what’s great and what’s not.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2010

One of his investors called him, “the best CFO in our entire portfolio.&# ). One of the large parts of the burn was PR, Marketing and attending conferences. When the CEO of an early-stage startup tells me that they plan to hire a COO I’m usually not interested in the next meeting.

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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. I also make visits to senior level customers of portfolio companies with which I’m involved.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? Say, “We are hiring a developer to create only the beginning of an application. Hire one from each.

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David Teten

MARCH 24, 2014

Teten : No one ever got fired for hiring Och-Ziff, or any other of the massive hedge funds. Teten : As a thought experiment, imagine a quant pure black box hedge fund, “UltraQuant,” which hires a lot of impressive PhDs. They regularly find they have years where they would have had better returns by not changing their portfolio at all.

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Software Review Due Diligence Venture Capital Portfolio 114

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

7 Ways to PR your Personal Brand on a Budget written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Make the best use of the tight resources you have with these 7 best practice tips to PR your personal brand on a budget: 1. You don’t need to hire an expensive PR firm to get some traction with this. Get Media Coverage.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 28, 2013

Hire People Who Make Things Happen (get rid of the rest) – [link]. Hire People Who Make Things Happen (get rid of the rest) – [link]. Google uses Big Data to prove hiring puzzles useless and GPAs meaningless – [link]. 25 Portfolio Sites That Are Boldly Ignoring Design Trends | PSDFan – [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

Each VC has their own take on which services to provide and mostly they’re free but some smaller VCs charge portfolio companies for use of these services but usually at a cheap cost. Side Note : Upfront has hired Kerry Bennett as a member of our executive management team to run marketing – please follow her on Twitter here ].

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

How to hire – crowdspring.co/15u6LKW. How to hire – crowdspring.co/15u6LKW. 40 inspiring portfolio pages | Design Reviver – crowdspring.co/1btPnx2. Three questions to ask your marketing team – crowdspring.co/18n7nWC. How To Launch Your New Business For Less Than $1,500 – crowdspring.co/1akR8Jb.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 25, 2013

The Right Way to Hire Your Customers | Bill Lee – Harvard Business Review – [link]. PR Nudges Its Way to the Content Table | by Josh Sternberg – [link]. 40 Portfolio Websites Featuring Beautiful Nature | iBrandStudio – [link]. Everything there is to know about startup competition – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Hire for potential, says Jason Fried of 37signals - crowdspring.co/1aHHrTp. Hire for potential - crowdspring.co/1aHHrTp. A Guide to Designing a Portfolio Website - crowdspring.co/HarwpQ. Qualities Of Truly Great Employees | Business Insider by Dharmesh Shah - crowdspring.co/1h0QmFY. Perfect employees don’t exist.

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

Transformify

JULY 4, 2018

Each CSR program is discussed to come up with a PR and marketing plan to ensure its success and add value to the business and the society at large. The cost may be too high depending on the efficiency and the quality of candidates each company manages to attract and hire. Once the candidate gets hired, the payment terms, etc.

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Technical Review Software Review Database Algorithm 40

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 22, 2012

The Key to Startup Hiring: Build a Magnet – [link]. 10 skills the PR pro of 2022 MUST have – [link]. 40 Super Creative And Crazily Unique Web Designer Portfolios: 2012 – [link]. How To Make A Splash In A Sea Of Startups: Tips From Chicago’s Top Accelerator and VC – [link]. – [link].

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

I’ve primarily seen quantitative analytic techniques used in origination , filtering , and in portfolio company recruiting , but technology can be used throughout the nine steps of the private company investing process: The 9 Steps of the Private Company Investing Process. 8) Accelerate portfolio company value. 9% (1 / 12).

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 30, 2012

What Every Start-up Should Know about PR – [link]. Do you really need a full-time hire for that? An Analysis Of Navigation In Portfolio Websites – [link]. Why the Best Product Doesn’t Always Win – [link]. Spotify Is Raising At A Stunning $3.5 Billion Valuation, Multiple VCs Say – [link].

Social Media 93

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Why Companies Should Hire The Best Workers–Wherever They Are – crowdspring.co/1ejgY52. 30 Best Portfolio Websites in Red Color | iBrandStudio – crowdspring.co/14azoiL. Hacking the Workday | Tech Cocktail – crowdspring.co/165n5YA. Quora – crowdspring.co/1eqfC8P.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 8, 2011

I also co-led several secondary portfolio transactions where we bought pools of venture capital fund investments off of other investors when they were bailing from the asset class. you want an investor with a large local network of potential hires. A great hire is going to be there everyday in the trenches.

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Venture Capital PR Hiring Networking 110

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 16, 2020

It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. I have already built a personal website and started promoting it via different techniques like a guest post, PR, networking etc. 1- Collaborate and provide more employment.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 19, 2018

It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. Developing our platform, expanding our marketing efforts, and hiring more staff are all part of the process which will see that become a reality. 1- Efficiency. 6- Expansion.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2012

I had dinner with my friend Brooke Hammerling , founder of Brew PR recently. She was lamenting that some startups simply see their PR company as merely somebody who corrals the press when you want to get some inches. And they will offer you some of the best business advice you will ever receive if you’re open to it.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

The best drivers apply the brakes just ahead of the curve (they take out excess costs), turn hard toward the apex of the curve (identify the short list of projects that will form the next business model), and accelerate hard out of the curve (spend and hire before markets have rebounded).

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Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

K9 Ventures

JULY 21, 2016

That’s 7 out of about 29 investments that K9 has made to date and so that’s almost 1/4 of the K9 portfolio. In at least one case, one of my portfolio companies wasn’t able to source the parts they would have really wanted because Apple had locked up the entire supply chain for that part!

Software Review 48

Software Review Forecast Portfolio Distribution 48

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

One of the things I discuss the most with the portfolio companies I’m involved with is that “you manage what you measure.”. Usually you have a catch-all bucket for “direct” or similar that often came through PR or word-of-mouth. How many people would we need to hire? You Manage What you Measure. What would that take?

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 22, 2015

In recent years VCs have been rushing to add value by hiring non-investors to help their portfolio companies. Google Ventures: has teams that help portfolio companies with design, engineering, recruiting, marketing and partnerships. Greylock: have a data scientist who helps their portfolio. And there’s us.

Portfolio 60

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 12, 2012

The rush to hire results in a relaxation of “hire only A players rule.” My advice to portfolio companies has been to raise the amount of capital that they can reasonably expect put to work in the next 18-24 months. Nine women can’t make a baby in one month.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 8, 2019

Then from the mid 2000s, value add began moving beyond the partner to the firm as VCs began employing people who’s full time job was helping their portfolio. The most common strategies are to provide networking services and content to portfolio leaders so they can be more effective in their jobs. . Building platforms.

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Portfolio LP Venture Capital Partner 84