David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

. – Encourage founders to turn to other founders and their broader community as resources, not just the VC’s own staff. – Build out low-cost force multipliers such as scouts , Advisors, Entrepreneurs in Residence, Venture Partners, and so on. – Hire more non-Partner staff. – Hire more Partners.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

But we got serious in early 2016 when we developed deep conviction around the immense technical vision of Ethereum. Fund Details We identify the most promising use cases for cryptoassets and within those use cases we vet the teams, projects, and communities. has about ~40 employees and has raised $9M in venture capital.

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The Next Web

JULY 13, 2012

While it’s typically understood that the CEO’s job is to be the salesperson and face of a brand, Alongi tends to spend more time focusing on the work conditions and employee happiness of her company, Quick Left. The vision of Quick Left, it would seem, is to be somewhat of a technical cofounder as-a-service.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 30, 2016

I am a session singer and producer, and I wish clients and peers would give me more of an opportunity to work in the technical side of the business (such as mixing and editing). Successful women in the investment community need to be on the lookout for them and support them by funding, giving access to resources or simple advising.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

Along with some friends from Yale (my alma mater), I recently brainstormed some ideas to accelerate a university’s campus tech community. I’ve listed the most common levers that universities use below, with some live examples from Yale: Strong technical departments : Computer Science , Math , Physics.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Be Careful with Cofounders This was the surprise mentioned by the most founders. There weretwo types of responses: that you have to be careful who you pickas a cofounder, and that you have to work hard to maintain yourrelationship. The lesson: dontpick cofounders who will flake. These were the biggest: 1.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Join our community. Advisor. ); STARTUP. Employee Benefits. Back in 1997, Randy Parker was staring at a blank whiteboard, wondering where hed find the money to hire the employees and consultants he needed to build his new product. "We ); Login or signup. Welcome | Logout. Forgot login ? Start-up | Mondays.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

In their startup post-mortem, Nouncer discussed their decision to be in NY as one that hurt their company stating : In my case, New York didn’t lack money, community, able workers, or smart people with good advice. Discord with a cofounder was one of the most fatal issues for a company. 13 – Disharmony with Investors/Co-founders.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Let’s people sell premium digital content online without dealing with any of the technical stuff. So maybe if you found the smaller bands who are also really good at communicating with their community. I’m actually very fortunate because I’ve had the same employees pretty much since day one.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Inevitably, the excuses begin: I need to hire people to build the product. Post launch, if you gain traction, is where the business person will help take the load off of the technical folks. The business person can take all the meetings while the technical folks work on making the product better. I don’t know any developers.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Eighty-two percent have global offices, and yet 91% are still run by Israeli CEOs, as opposed to foreign executives hired from the outside. According to Izhar Shay, a general partner at Canaan Partners, “The investment community has matured to recognize they need to plan for scale. American VCs are critical.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Blogs (VC): Antonio Rodriguez [link] – A very technical VC at Matrix partners who can actually code. Reply Jarek , on February 27, 2011 at 11:51 pm said: What about CRM? Hoptoad [link] – Collects production application errors, groups them so developers can see one backtrace and how many times the error occurred.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I was driven by my desire for freedom and that’s what I got; along with an amazing opportunity to help transform my employees’ and my client’s lives through homeownership and real estate. When I began practicing law I was hired by a firm where billable hours and collected fees were the only considerations for advancement.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

For example, the network enables job seekers to get introductions to people in the group they’re being hired into, or to people who could talk to that hiring group, or to the hiring manager themself. Improving the quality of hires or increasing the speed of the hiring process saves professionals time and money.

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