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When The VC Asks: About Your Hiring Plan

Hunter Walker

Whether it’s adding capacity to an existing function (#MawrEngineers) or bringing new talents onboard (“we intend to make our first marketing hire”), glossing over these bullet points towards the back of the pitch deck would be a mistake. I’m interested in not just what these people will be doing but how and when they’ll be hired.

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Startups: Cut the Wheat from the Chaff on Quora

VC Cafe

How do bootstrapped companies hire talent? How much should it cost for a bootstrapped, lean startup to incorporate (or form an LLC)? Tags: Lean Startups Quora VC Cafe google analytics group chats information Israeli startups product referral programs simple accounting wheat from the chaff.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking. ff Venture Capital hired two full-time engineers to build out Totem. Similarly, Corsis uses benchmarking data to understand technology spend patterns.