Due Diligence Finance Hiring Silicon Valley 
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 30, 2014
I seldom hire patent attorneys during due diligence but this was too important. We hired OSHA regulatory lawyers. We hired IP specialists to review prior art. She connected me with Andreessen’s due diligence team who were surprisingly open with all the technical analysis they had done.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 5, 2014
Last week a company we enthusiastically backed, uBeam , led by a very special entrepreneur, 25-year-old Meredith Perry , announced a $10 million round of financing. The beauty of Silicon Valley and the ethos it has driven in all of us is acceptance of failure and a profound respect for those who at least try. I was not fried.
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Seeing Both Sides
APRIL 28, 2011
But if you are a competent engineer, sales executive, online marketer or general manager in Silicon Valley, NYC, Boston or other start-up hotspots, the unemployment rate is 0%. CNN recently reported that 40% of the 130,000 job openings in Silicon Valley are for software engineers. 2) Hiring Inexperience.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 13, 2011
There was a lot of consumer internet activity again…resurgence of things, but it was still mysterious, venture capital was still kind of closed, 1st time entrepreneurs had a lot of questions that were unanswered, and there was still some sort of hand waiving around all the financing stuff and so we took it on….”. The Oblong guy, literally?
David Teten
AUGUST 19, 2019
Since 2017 we’ve managed $3 million in revenue-based financing, which helps cash-strapped technology companies grow. The mode purpose for funding is (in order of frequency) Sales, Marketing, Market Expansion, Product Development, and Hiring Employees. “ You qualify if you have $5k+ MRR. Bigfoot Capital. Decathlon Capital.
Austin Startup
AUGUST 20, 2017
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. Messy cap tables can come back to haunt you when you do a financing or sell the company.
Seeing Both Sides
DECEMBER 3, 2009
. The VC community suffered a very similar scandal at Seattle-based Entellium last year, but few reporters seem to remember that one, perhaps because it wasn't located in the heart of Silicon Valley as Canopy was. This shielding of communication must not be allowed, particularly in the finance function.
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