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How VCs Think About Adding New Partners

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M&A experience (Morgan Stanley and later co-headed M&A for Barry Diller at IAC). Wonderful human being who is civically engaged, mother of 3, mentorer of younger founders, hard worker and arguer extraordinaire (so says her current Twitter bio). Kara has worked in finance in Boston, NYC and Silicon Valley.

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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

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Sakti3 Founder Sastry to Step Down From U-M. Q&A: Group Commerce Plans Hires, European Growth with $21M Funding. View More in Seattle ›. Co-Founder and CEO, Wetpaint. Founder, DEKA Research and Development Corporation. Seattle Events ›. Our Cities ▾ Boston ›. View More in Boston ›.

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Some Thoughts on Leadership Going into 2016

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Most founders have a strong sense of what they’re trying to achieve. They hire their initial co-founders and early employees and everybody has a sense of “mission.” We try to hire deeply analytical associates to can help companies problem solve and who make us better investors. A Sense of Purpose.

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Make It Happen: How to find a Programmer

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Home About Contact Make It Happen: How to find a Programmer My weekly post on Seattle 2.0. The number two thing is lack of a technical co-founder. Partner with a Programmer After they have their big idea, most non-technical founders set forth to find an engineer to form a partnership.

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How I Found a Great CTO

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Ive occasionally worked with executive recruiters, for example in hiring a CTO for my first company, Eve.com. I was lucky to sign on as advisor and investor the founder of a very high-profile consumer Internet site who happens to also be a former engineer, who I will call Richard. This time, I decided to handle the process myself.

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Dragons, Bootstrapping and Women in Tech

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” For Lindsay Nelson, CEO and co-founder of Theme Dragon, Inc that opportunity was founding a tech company. She and original cofounder Megan Bradford poured their proverbial blood, sweat and tears into this enterprise. Inspiration Managing a Business Self-Financing Strategy Success Stories' Validate your idea.

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“I guess we’ll know we’ve made it when a woman can get away with behaving like Elon Musk.” Talking With VC Ashley Mayer About Finding Your Career, Taking Box Public, And Why She’s Not Interested In Reading Yet Another Female CEO Takedown

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I tried to get hired at Better Place and failed. I had gone to high school with the founders in the Seattle area, and we had recently reconnected. When I learned they were hiring a community manager, I threw everything I had at the interview process. Enter Box. Two additional moments stand out to me.

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