Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 28, 2011

CNN recently reported that 40% of the 130,000 job openings in Silicon Valley are for software engineers. That's why, even though it flies in the face of conventional wisdom, I'm advocating that all my portfolio companies hire recruiters when they are trying to fill senior or key positions. 2) Hiring Inexperience.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I’m not looking to invest there – I’m looking to understand the trends, the people, the innovation, the regions and how China can become an integral part of any of my portfolio companies as they scale. I’m dropping everything non-portfolio related in the next few weeks and setting my sights on righting my wrong.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I’m not looking to invest there – I’m looking to understand the trends, the people, the innovation, the regions and how China can become an integral part of any of my portfolio companies as they scale. I’m dropping everything non-portfolio related in the next few weeks and setting my sights on righting my wrong.

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Transformify

OCTOBER 3, 2018

It is much more cost efficient for a construction company to hire freelancers than to keep regular builders staff on the payroll all year round. It depends on several factors including the years of experience, the freelancer`s area of expertise, his/her ability to present oneself, the references from existing customers and so on.

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Transformify

MARCH 24, 2020

As the legislation across the globe varies a lot when it comes to freelance jobs and hiring freelancers, job seekers need to do their research to understand their status, obligations, etc. while others are comfortable hiring freelancers on the other side of the world. It is likely to find online reviews, comments posted on forums, etc.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies. Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies. As a product manager at HomeAway (part of the Expedia, Inc.

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Eric Friedman

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

No code and a global workforce make it possible. I hope it brings some much needed visibility into the world of no-code projects and transparency into building a minimum viable product and getting it launched. Its an easy reference to “tap” into the work later for partners and teams. Coupon codes! (an

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Q&A: Group Commerce Plans Hires, European Growth with $21M Funding. In fact, by using analytics software that relies on a different way of measuring risk, the San Diego firm is becoming known in some circles as “the Moneyball of venture capital,” according to David Coats, a co-founder and managing partner. View More in Boston ›.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

And when — if ever — do you need to hire your own full- or part-time, in-house dev to work on your website and applications? If you’ve got tips for other business owners or want to share your experiences with hiring developers, please leave us a note in the comments section.

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David Teten

JANUARY 23, 2021

Set up a Data Room, with a filled-out Due Diligence Questionnaire (“DDQ”). Among the most important information to include: details on return history, legal documents, fund organization chart, portfolio construction model , portfolio company 1-pagers, key personnel resumes, and case studies of past investments.

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Babbling VC

AUGUST 18, 2011

Research the fund you are applying to: read their website, review their portfolio, find some press clippings on recent deals and research the partners via LinkedIn, Xing or whatever other social network gives you access to their backgrounds. . Know about two or three of their portfolio companies! Be nice to the receptioniest.

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Transformify

DECEMBER 2, 2019

As the flow of new projects is hard to predict, business owners prefer to hire on a project basis to match costs and revenue and make the ends meet. Usually, these digital schools and universities use a minimum of 6-7 software solutions to track, manage the relationship with the tutors and transfer payments. E-learning.

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Ben's Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Why are you against hiring successful people?” It is a long story, but in summary, one general rule of mine is don’t hire or fund rich people. So much so that our diligence found him working round the clock, running a hyper-intense environment and looking very much like a 20 year old entrepreneur on a mission from God.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 1, 2016

Tip: Establish relationships with vets— getting a vet to refer clients to you can be an invaluable way to bring in business. Maybe you’ve worked as a hiring manager for years, and you know exactly what employers are looking for. Freelance writing. Are you a strong writer? This one is a no-brainer. Resume building. Programming.

Design 60

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

This led to the problem we, Marketers, SEOs, Analysts, fondly refer to as not provided. That of course will mean more referring keyword data will disappear. We are headed towards having zero referring keywords from Google and, perhaps, other search engines. Implications of Secure Search Decision. Here's an example.

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Up and Running

MAY 18, 2015

While quotes will maintain the use of the name oDesk, we will refer to the site as Upwork. I’m home at 11am on a weekday because I work remotely; I am employed by Palo Alto Software, but as they are located in Eugene, Oregon, and I am currently living in Portland, I am rarely in the office. Here is what these entrepreneurs had to say.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 9, 2019

And how do you know if your team—or the one you’ve hired—is focusing on the most important things ? For example, the icons in Inc.com’s top nav are easily recognizable for their readers: a magnifying glass refers to the search bar, the human figure leads to a profile page, and the hamburger menu brings up more navigation options.

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37signals.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Browse by visual style, portfolio, budget, and geographic location. Over 1 million people use 37signals simple web-based software to collaborate on projects, track contacts, and organize their business with an intranet. Examples : Microsoft: it’s made up word, but it sounds like software. Got a position to fill?

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Many partnerships don’t make it past this stage, devolving into a tangled mess about who owns the idea and the code and what the compensation should be. Hire someone to do a working prototype/proof-of-concept. Software development is like an iceberg – 90% of it is under the surface. Rework it as necessary.

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firstround.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

The Review. The Review. Ian Langworth started his career as an O’Reilly author and software engineer at Google. Ian Langworth started his career as an O’Reilly author and software engineer at Google. Not too long ago, I was a software engineer preparing to start my very first company. Plusstartup.

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Austin Startup

MAY 19, 2018

Don’t do reference checks … until you are actually ready to write a check. This one comes from personal experience, months into conversations and after reference checks (which went well) one particular VC decided he didn’t have commitment to the space. Wow us with your consistency and follow through and you’ll win our hearts.

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Transformify

JANUARY 21, 2020

Although freelancing may be hard at the beginning, once freelancers build trust and a portfolio of satisfied clients likely to refer even more customers to them, freelancing becomes a source of steady and predictable cash flow. However, the recruiters can communicate with a maximum of 75 freelancers and hire them. Freelancers.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Disclosure: * denotes a current or former Greylock portfolio company.). And many of the Silicon Valley technology companies achieve their global prominence due to blitzscaling — which provides jobs, tax revenues, and new products and services to society. For reference, Apple’s gross margin is 38% , and Alphabet’s 56%.

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

Designers who practiced table-based layout may remember how headaches up front lead to more flexible code later. When computers first gained graphical user interfaces, software engineers helped people make the transition from physical offices to digital files with the metaphor of a desktop. Newsletter. JavaScript. Techniques.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 6, 2018

with the portfolio to show for it. Nothing says more about your culture than who you hire, who you fire, and who you promote. Sometimes these vacations would give me the clarity of mind to let go of an executive that I had been holding on to for too long (perhaps due to loyalty even though they had scaled out). in our Series A.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

You struggle to get budget to hire Analysts or Marketers. If you are willing to create a small portfolio of initiatives then you can get a pretty decent understanding of the hidden impact (offline) of your web presence. It is quite likely that by the time you quantify the impact of your site on the 98.3% that took ten seconds.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

Corner Piece Productions doesn’t have its own website currently, but here’s the site for West of Her, which picked up five Best Narrative Feature awards over our festival tour this summer, along with rave review from critics across the country, and is set for wide video on demand distribution this year.

Naming 48

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 6, 2020

Moreover, the indicators that show founders are ready to take on new capital in order to progress to the next phase of company-building – be it hiring, expanding into a new market, launching a product or more – can vary from company to company. They are going to hire people. Diligence is specific to the company.

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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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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. A few times per year, Bessemer organizes a CxO event for our portfolio companies and we decided to focus our first session of 2008 on Software-as-a-service (SaaS).

Software Review 48

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Austin Startup

MAY 29, 2019

When we consider investing in SaaS startups at Hurt Family Investments (34 SaaS startups and counting in our portfolio ), we always look for natural network effects. Their success is about execution in sales, services, and feature parity … and then eventually superiority (again, due to that single platform to rapidly evolve on advantage).

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