crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

William Hurley, co-founder of Honest Dollar , an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits. It’s an incredibly innovative city.

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APRIL 27, 2013

Just ask the people of Portland, Seattle, Boulder, Iowa, Princeton, Dallas or countless other cities that don’t have enough venture capital. If you don’t live in a major VC zone, I have some tips for how to make it easier to raise Venture Capital. Ask SuperCell. Or UrbanAirship. I know local talent.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2014

People often ask me what VCs look for when we hire partners and many have asked how to become VCs themselves one day. She has been in operations in Seattle and Los Angeles. As I like to say (and as Kara humbly hates when I do so in front of others) … she has a much better resume to a venture capital partner than I do.

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MAY 5, 2011

I’m in Seattle this week. Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. As I gear up to give a keynote at the annual Seattle 2.0 awards dinner on Thursday night I started reflected on what it would take to “change the trajectory&# for Seattle or for any regional market, really.

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JANUARY 1, 2016

They hire their initial co-founders and early employees and everybody has a sense of “mission.” We’re a national venture capital investment firm but with our roots firmly in Los Angeles. We try to hire deeply analytical associates to can help companies problem solve and who make us better investors.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

He or she might call himself a “consulting CTO,&# “freelance CTO,&# “on-demand CTO,&# “CTO on call,&# “CTO for hire,&# or just a “technology strategy advisor.&# And why would you hire a technology guy who launched a failed startup? For one thing, you’ll learn from his mistakes.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

For starters they has asked him to hire a CEO (Hamet was a first timer) and that person lived in Seattle even though NextMedium was based in LA. Hamet started his career in Venture Capital working for the first post-apartheid VC fund in South Africa. I believe investors had forced him to do this. And he followed through.

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JUNE 5, 2011

I’m just pointing out my gut feel for approximate ranges of deals that I’ve seen with Silicon Valley having the highest valuations, NY / LA / Boston / Boulder / Seattle having valuations in a slightly lower range but comparable and sometimes significantly lower prices in markets that don’t have a healthy venture market.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

In other words, the arrival of a product or service like Uber will have zero impact on the overall market size of the car-for-hire transportation market. This only makes sense – lowering the price of car-for-hire transportation will increase the usage. There are multiple reasons why this is a flawed assumption. Rental car alternative.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

From Box to Glossier, and Comms to Venture Capital, Ashley Mayer Is Carving a Pretty Unique Path. Better Place was building the charging infrastructure to enable mass adoption of electric vehicles; it was led by a charismatic CEO, raised gobs of capital before that was the norm, and later imploded spectacularly. Enter Box.

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Haystack

MAY 4, 2019

Everyone they’d want to hire here either could make a fortune at Facebook, or need a bigger salary as their rents skyrocketed. You will see the majority are in the Bay Area, and then New York City, and a bit more around LA and Seattle — and things get really scattered.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 26, 2018

Rand Fishkin: I think one of the challenges is that Silicon Valley startups are built for a very specific asset class, venture capital, which is an asset class that’s designed to invest in 100 companies and three or four of them will return the entire fund and another 10 will be doing okay. Rand Fishkin: Well, thank you, John.

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Up and Running

JUNE 2, 2010

Still, I was quite concerned the other day to read the fox-in-henhouse problem posted in a very well-written and thoughtful post called 11 Lessons I Learned Raising Venture Capital : “Be wary of angel networks. We presented to two angel networks in Seattle.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

The city’s close proximity to major business centers like Seattle and Silicon Valley is another notable benefit, enabling a vibrant flow of talent between cities up and down the west coast. of partners at venture capital firms in Canada are women , which more than double the US rate of 6%.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 30, 2014

Techstars has become a power player in places like Boston, Boulder and Seattle: The program, known as a startup accelerator, takes entrepreneurs and offers them office space, funding and advice, taking a stake in the companies in exchange. Think of it as a cross between a landlord, summer camp, and venture-capital firm.

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JUNE 8, 2014

Changes in the Software World & in Venture Capital. But notably you had the following changes: Horizontally scalable computing & storage systems, which meant you required less capital up front for hardware. The Foundations of the Seattle startup community. Angels & Recycled Capital. Venture Capital.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

The city’s close proximity to major business centers like Seattle and Silicon Valley is another notable benefit, enabling a vibrant flow of talent between cities up and down the west coast. of partners at venture capital firms in Canada are women , which more than double the US rate of 6%.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Veteran investor Timothy Draper says venture-capital firms are taking notice of Silicon Beach. He has hired engineers from Loyola Marymount University , CalTech, University of Southern California and UCLA , he says. But there will be," Citron says. Weve reached out to the schools."

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Last year I was on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley meeting with one of the most prominent venture capital firms in the country. If you are talented, of course, you can get funded in any region with enough venture capital and obviously in markets outside of the Valley it is easier to get noticed and get access.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Rover.com (*) in Seattle, which was founded by Greg Gottesman and Aaron Easterly in 2011, is the leading player in this market. Once again, this is an asset against which the marginal cost to host a dog is near zero. Benchmark is an investor in Rover through a merger with DogVacay in 2017). “The

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

For example, a seed firmshould be able to give advice about how to approach VCs, which VCsobviously dont need to do; whereas VCs should be able to giveadvice about how to hire an "executive team," which is not an issuein the seed stage. You dont have to spend time on bureaucraticstuff, because you havent hired any bureaucrats yet.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2009

We’re glad your company hired a real petroleum engineer to come speak to us. During the question and answer session my heart was in my throat since like any good marketer, my depth of knowledge was no more than one level away from being a complete idiot. We hate when the sales and marketing types come down and try to get us to buy something.”

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www.currentlyobsessed.com

MAY 28, 2010

Snapvine was my first experience being in the driver’s seat of the fund-raising process, and in the 3 years prior to our acquisition we raised over $10mm in venture capital. He tries to write things that havent already been written 9000 times. Or is it? Future value is key.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 19, 2021

Evocalize is actively hiring for the new location and has open positions in Sales, Client Success, and Engineering. Evocalize is backed by Seattle-based Madrona Venture Group and Second Century Ventures , the venture capital arm of the National Association of Realtors.

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MAY 7, 2011

Joel moved to Seattle, and worked at Microsoft for three years as a program manager on Excel 4.0 It took Joel awhile to realize that “If you’re hiring very bright people, let them do their damn job&#. With StackOverflow, Joel raised money through venture capital. Upon graduating, he went to work at Microsoft.

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

3: Hire Your Boss : Make sure you hire people that you would want to work for, who challenge you and you can learn from. Stay involved in the hiring process as long as you possibly can. Venture capital mean board meetings, which is a huge sap on time and resources. Beg, borrow and steal. Very motivating!

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Professor VC

JANUARY 19, 2012

Conceptually, this is very intriguing and goes against the current popularity of accelerators in start-up hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, Seattle, Boulder) that are filled with recent grads and drop outs looking to build the next web sensation. Venture capital Texas. The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic.

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Hire someone who understands that. Most developers are smart enough to do html, css, and javascript. so they do. But just knowing how to do it doesnt mean youre good at it. Design is communication, not decoration. How it looks can be a big factor in how it works.

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