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The Pros and Cons of Rando Rich People Investing in Your Startup

This is going to be BIG.

I would e-mail Paul and Rony from Indeed regularly with feature ideas and get super frustrated that they implemented zero of them—especially in the face of stiff competition from Simply Hired. What’s Simply Hired, you ask? Paul and Rony focused on doing one thing and doing it better than anyone else—returning great job search results.

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

Hiring is a chapter unto itself, but it deserves to lead off any discussion of context. Compensation decisions obviously affect hiring and retention. You can’t be too careful in determining comp packages for your new hires. Your Cap Table is something that deserves constant care and attention.

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After Raising $6.7M For Startups And Winning SEC Approval, AngelList Opens Up Investment Platform To More Companies

techcrunch.com

That way, startups only have one entity in the cap table, which simplifies documentation and structure. It’s clear that AngelList wants to help bring much of the transactional conversations and introductions that happen at the early stage of hiring and fundraising via word of mouth or in meetings online. Trending Stories.

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What Acquihire Really Means

Feld Thoughts

There was one construct that bothered me – Geis’ use of the phrase “acqui-hire” and his effort to categorize acquisitions as acquihires, ACQUI-hires, acqui-HIRES, and ACQUI-HIRES. Dodgeball.com: But really…When a public company with a market cap of $64.1 Google acquires(?)

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. Coalesce address the more general problem of searching through large data sets for best fits. But beyond that, not much.

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Working for Equity Instead of Cash

genylabs.typepad.com

I wont bother going into details on start-up financing terms ( see this post for an overview of typical VC terms) except to say if you dont know and understand: the firms cap table and valuation. Have not met anyone I wanted to hire who was willing to work for equity. what kind of stock you are getting. what your rights are.

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Everything you ever wanted to know about advisors, Part 1

venturehacks.com

This is the advisor paradox : hire advisors for good advice but don’t follow it, apply it. Your task is to hire the maverick advisors in the crowd. Hiring advisors is an ongoing effort. Then hire him if you like the results. How to make a cap table. ” – Jeffrey Pfeffer , The Human Equation.