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SEPTEMBER 18, 2019
Projecting from the seed stage, there are two types of team-building topics you want to address – key senior hires and org-level team building. As the company progresses through product market fit (PMF), you will want to highlight other key senior hires required to scale and round out the functional expertise of the exec team.
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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. When to make your first analytics hire. So when should you start thinking about your first analytics hire? What to look for in your first analytics hire.
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SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
In two cases, these businesses were doing significant early revenue ($500K/month+), so could be considered “post-seed”, although both of these companies had not raised significant institutional capital before we led their rounds. Of the last 15 investments we’ve made, 8 have been pre-product or pre-seed style rounds.
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SEPTEMBER 23, 2019
The former can include expected burn and runway, guideposts on hiring, and resource allocation. develop and launch X product, reach Y number of users, generate $Z amount revenue). The latter should simply state what this capital fundraise will “buy” you in terms of a few headline business proof points (e.g.
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APRIL 30, 2015
In many instances, you raise an institutional round to either fulfill a product strategy or go-to-market strategy or you’re increasing sales and marketing hires, so you have better visibility into what needs to happen in the next six, 12, 18 months. Traction and revenue? Reason being, there’s more of a defined strategy for the company.
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OCTOBER 15, 2014
Team: Hires, fires, departures, responsibility changes, major promotions, and your org chart. Hiring is also essential and may appear regularly, though it will fluctuate in volume and urgency. The latter is especially important for that first meeting to give your board a sense for the current team struture and personnel.
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MARCH 19, 2015
” After spending some time at the acquiring company, I was hired by Google and eventually was put in charge of the development team that launched AdWords. I was fortunate enough to be hired back by Google, and while there, I was asked to be part of an “innovation task force.” Why doesn’t everyone do this?”
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