Community Hiring Reputation Term Sheet 
Hunter Walker
AUGUST 7, 2021
This rarely occurs with established investors, because they know breaking their word is a reputation killer around our community. Whether it’s a hiring manager holding some candidates at bay while they continue interviewing. Can someone develop a reputation for being a Mr or Ms Maybe or overpromising and underdelivering?
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 21, 2010
I know he’s smart but you wouldn’t hire a Javascript developer to do your database design – would you? I’ve met several people from Cooley Godward who have stellar reputations in this category. He’s totally tapped into the startup communities in Silicon Valley and a bit in LA. And Brad Feld.
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David Teten
SEPTEMBER 6, 2015
In either case, corporations have to set up their investment vehicles so that the venture capital community sees them as serious players. Teten: How do corporate VCs interact with the broader VC community? . Protecting one’s reputation is incredibly important for any investor, whether independent or corporate.
David Teten
SEPTEMBER 2, 2017
If you join a fund, you’ll invest your financial capital, but far more importantly, your reputational capital. If you are one of six in the LP relationship area, you will have less leverage than if you are a new hire with the only European LP relationships. These are many of the steps I went through when I joined HOF Capital.
reidhoffman.org
NOVEMBER 12, 2013
The key problem with existing technologies was adverse selection, specifically concerning the incentives of participants and the reputation systems: In the yellow pages, people wanted to be found but the way they represented themselves had nothing to do with how good they were. It has reputation. Our answer: a network.
This is going to be BIG.
JANUARY 22, 2018
If you can't handle the cold inbound, hire some help. Another thing that skews the process is the lack of accessibility of many partner-level VCs, especially to diverse communities. I offered a term sheet to lead a $1.6mm financing. Your network never signed up to do your outsourced job for you. Look, I get it.
abovethecrowd.com
APRIL 20, 2016
While not obvious on the surface, there has been a fundamental sea-change in the investment community that has made the incremental Unicorn investment a substantially more dangerous and complicated practice. The Sharks Arrive With Dirty Term Sheets. The typical Silicon Valley term sheet does not include such terms.
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