Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

I’ve decided to take all of my private conversations and subjective points-of-view on the topic and make them public in a keynote speech at the Founder Showcase in San Francisco on June 15th. And the CEO they would hire to come in and run the business when you go would always be a mercenary.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 14, 2014

Can upstart ecosystems in New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, or Seattle churn out tomorrow’s billion dollar tech companies? When it comes to hiring, start-ups located outside of Silicon Valley have an initial advantage, because there’s a lot less competition for engineers. But there are some considerations….

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Location and dates : San Francisco, May 13-14; Europe, June; New York, September 18-19. Location : Seattle, WA. Transportation options : Seattle has a system of buses and streetcars that can get you to and from MozCon from wherever you decide to stay. Dates : July 14-16. Location : New Orleans, LA. Dates : May 5-7.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 11, 2016

Creating and building a startup in San Francisco at just 24-years-old is hard. Embed these items deeply into your hiring, onboarding, and performance review processes. But you need to remember you’ve hired a team of highly intelligent & capable employees for a reason. by Ned Ryan, CEO & co-founder of Breeze.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m in Seattle this week. Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. As I gear up to give a keynote at the annual Seattle 2.0 awards dinner on Thursday night I started reflected on what it would take to “change the trajectory&# for Seattle or for any regional market, really.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

That prediction obviously turned out pretty wrong, but it did drum up a whole lot of chatter about the right ingredients for building a startup community—about New York vs Boston on the East Coast and whether cities like Austin and Seattle would ever break through. San Francisco is dealing with some very serious livability issues.

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VC Adventure

MARCH 20, 2012

It concerns whether companies in a shared venture portfolio should have any special rules of engagement about hiring from other companies in the portfolio. Arbitrary rules around hiring and, in particular, recruiting practices seem spurious. To me, this is the real key. Altruistic in their ideal, but flawed in execution.

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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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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 29, 2013

Boulder/Denver joins the other six regions – Boston, Detroit, New York, San Diego, San Francisco, and Seattle – and is now part of the broad and expanding coverage that Xconomy is providing on business, life sciences, and technology news.

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keen.io

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Meanwhile, the Keen founders, having just moved back to San Francisco after three months away at TechStars, met in our living room late one April evening and prepared offers for me and two of our other close friends, Kirk and Micah. Kirk flew into San Francisco from Seattle on that Friday, so he could talk to the founders in person.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 24, 2016

It meant frequent flights or moving your company to San Francisco to raise money from Bay Area VCs. These aren’t so critical in something like math or physics, where no audience matters except your peers, and judging ability is sufficiently straightforward that hiring and admissions committees can do it reliably.

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Haystack

MAY 4, 2019

Everyone they’d want to hire here either could make a fortune at Facebook, or need a bigger salary as their rents skyrocketed. You will see the majority are in the Bay Area, and then New York City, and a bit more around LA and Seattle — and things get really scattered.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 16, 2014

San Francisco, for instance, in 2007 passed the first such law and in 2012 Connecticut became the first state requiring such coverage. The trend has continued, in cities such as Seattle, Portland and the District of Columbia states have also enacted laws requiring paid sick days, with Vermont being the latest to consider new rules.

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VC Adventure

MARCH 20, 2012

It concerns whether companies in a shared venture portfolio should have any special rules of engagement about hiring from other companies in the portfolio. Arbitrary rules around hiring and, in particular, recruiting practices seem spurious. To me, this is the real key. Altruistic in their ideal, but flawed in execution.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

Ashley Mayer: I was two years post-college and working at a public relations agency in San Francisco, a job and career path I stumbled onto when I was rejected by my top law school picks. I tried to get hired at Better Place and failed. Enter Box.

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Growthink Blog

JULY 6, 2011

It then expanded to serving New York City, Boston, Washington DC, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Next it launched in cities including Atlanta, Denver, Dallas, San Diego, Phoenix and Seattle. Likewise, it gives you time to hire and train the staff you'll need to satisfy your customers.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

But Viddy isnt based in the technology hotbeds of Silicon Valley and San Francisco. "It After years of the San Francisco Bay Area dominating the tech start-up scene, with huge smashes such as Facebook, Google and Twitter, entrepreneurs are finding they can go elsewhere to grow and prosper. But there will be," Citron says.

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

If someone hired you, would you have your lawyer look over the NDA? Expo San Francisco 2010 ) and a whole lot of them are very well positioned. or Seattle. These are obvious in retrospect, but some things you have to learn the hard way. dan.sanderson. | May 8, 2010 12:38 PM. hashimwarren. | May 9, 2010 1:10 AM.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

The city’s close proximity to major business centers like Seattle and Silicon Valley is another notable benefit, enabling a vibrant flow of talent between cities up and down the west coast. Similar to San Francisco and the Bay Area, Toronto and Waterloo together form a corridor hosting a surplus of startup innovation between them.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Uh, so I literally had to walk the entire city of Chicago and the entire city of San Francisco and pick up every single menu. And so when that revenue tripled and suddenly I was like, Oh, I can hire people to help me, like this thing is gonna work. But I ended up hiring a lot of my friends. Before I sold anyone.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

The city’s close proximity to major business centers like Seattle and Silicon Valley is another notable benefit, enabling a vibrant flow of talent between cities up and down the west coast. Similar to San Francisco and the Bay Area, Toronto and Waterloo together form a corridor hosting a surplus of startup innovation between them.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. The Foundations of the Seattle startup community. Indeed we have already seen the beginnings.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

I had a fever, had a really strong headache, and this was when the first cases in Seattle were happening. I flew down to LA Tuesday morning from San Francisco, and we had signed the agreement by Wednesday. Fred Turner : A lot of hiring. Fred had had. Then I moved our team down from Menlo Park on Thursday.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

As an example, we estimate that ride-sharing revenues in San Francisco are well north of 10X what taxis and black cars were providing prior to the launch of ride-sharing. Rover.com (*) in Seattle, which was founded by Greg Gottesman and Aaron Easterly in 2011, is the leading player in this market.

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thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

Were hiring. ClickFacts itself is now based in San Francisco, and continues to work hard to help advertisers and ad-networks manage their risk and security, exactly as it set out to do seven years ago. I flew out from Seattle, where I lived, to Boston to Paul’s lecture on the back of his essay,” Phil tells me.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

According to Toni Schneider, a Partner at True Ventures, and a Team-Lead at Automattic, boundaryless teams confer a real advantage; “You can hire great people wherever you find them: Once your company is untethered from one physical location, your pool of available job applicants becomes the entire world.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Over the years, we have spent a lot of time in four key geographies: Toronto (nine investments), San Francisco (15 investments), New York City (five investments), and Seattle (four investments). As former operators, we welcome the opportunity to get our hands dirty with strategy, hiring, data, and more.

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

3: Hire Your Boss : Make sure you hire people that you would want to work for, who challenge you and you can learn from. Stay involved in the hiring process as long as you possibly can. I find people hiring people they feel they can manage. For small companies, once a week; for larger companies, maybe twice a month.

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