Version One Ventures

JUNE 16, 2020

The Seattle-based company provides an online marketplace for business-to-government commerce – it connects local and national suppliers with government procurement officers. . P.S. They’re hiring ! . Today we’re excited to announce that we led DemandStar ’s $2m seed round.

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Both Sides of the Table

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&#. Upon graduating, he went to work at Microsoft. He then went on to work at Viacom and Juno in NYC. 15 minutes.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2019

They hire people for their customer service ethic. Lindsay lives in Seattle with her husband and two children. You don’t just nail the letter of the promise, but the spirit of the promise. EXAMPLE: Zappos promises world-class customer service, and they deliver on that consistently and across all dimensions.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2014

Shortly after that VC investment, the VCs hired a new “professional” CEO who lasted less than a year before being replaced by a CEO who then did a great job building the company. Some were tough experiences for me, like NetGenesis, which was the first angel investment I made.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 17, 2024

HW: Textio is open to remote hires from a specific set of states which I found interesting. KS: For the first several years of Textio’s life, our team was entirely co-located in Seattle. Since we were already doing business in those states, it made sense to start hiring new people there too.

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Cofounder Founder Technical Review Seattle 132

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

William Hurley, the 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. Seattle, WA.

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konamoxt.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

January 18, 2009 Why Your Startup Can’t Afford To Hire a CTO Before Founding Konamoxt, my last gig was the Chief Technology Officer for a local Seattle Startup. Startup CEO, I’m here to tell you, you can’t afford to hire a CTO. And maybe more importantly what do you think you get when you hire a CTO?

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 7, 2020

Booster Fuels expanded its app-enabled, on-demand fueling services to fleets in Seattle , its first market in the Northwest. Our portfolio companies are always hiring! Earn bitcoin while you shop at partnering brands/e-retailers, and follow Lolli’s blog for up-to-date additions. You can read all about it here.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2015

One should also determine if outsourcing to virtual assistants, subcontracting and hiring employees would truly work. To multiply one’s efforts, one could use a “hub-and-spoke” model of maintaining a home base while using other outposts to diversify oneself. Partnerships such as affiliate programmes may also work.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

They hire their initial co-founders and early employees and everybody has a sense of “mission.” We try to hire deeply analytical associates to can help companies problem solve and who make us better investors. You can’t let every team hire as many team members as they want. A Sense of Purpose.

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Version One Ventures

JUNE 3, 2013

So it is time to get some help to manage the fund and I am excited to announce that Version One is hiring an analyst. Working with existing portfolio companies, including helping out with hiring, financial modeling, and research. The post We’re hiring an analyst! Looking forward to hearing from you!

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Board Effect

JUNE 2, 2022

Nonprofits often use capacity building grants to hire consultants to assist them in improving programs or improving efficiency overall. . Nonprofits commonly hire grant writers to apply for grants as grant writers have the necessary expertise to complete applications and increase the chances of an award. Seattle Foundation.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

Share this: We’ve seen a flurry of activity in recent weeks among Seattle area venture capital firms, led by Madrona Venture Group which raised $300 million last month and Divergent Ventures which pulled in $6.9 But Seattle entrepreneur Aaron Roberts, a former engineer… Read More. Location: Seattle. Featured Jobs.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. He would be a very senior hire for us and filling an urgent gap. You can build a meaningful company just about wherever these days. Ask SuperCell. Or UrbanAirship. I know local talent.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

It’s clear that AngelList wants to help bring much of the transactional conversations and introductions that happen at the early stage of hiring and fundraising via word of mouth or in meetings online. Seattle Meetup. Seattle, WA. The site is also a data goldmine. Life360, A Family Networking App With More. New York City.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. We didn’t hire a recruiting firm – it was always going to come from our network. Kara has worked in finance in Boston, NYC and Silicon Valley.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 19, 2022

When open houses in Seattle Real Estate shut down at the beginning of the pandemic my Photography business knew that Virtual Tours were going to be very important. We had to make the difficult decision to cut down on staff and this allowed us to hire workers at lower rates. Thanks to Ben Zellner, 3000MileMyth ! #4-

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

After Paradigm’s Joelle Emerson provided some feedback on how Take-Home Code Projects might impact gender ratios in hiring pipelines , another amazing woman sent me her perspectives. Kieran Synder is CEO of Textio , an innovative Seattle startup which helps companies understand the language of their job listings.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 19, 2014

In an article for Politico, Seattle venture capitalist Nick Hanauer writes that the United States is doing its middle class workers and the overall economy a disservice by allowing lax overtime laws, which exclude the majority of American employees from receiving the time-and-a-half compensation they used to in the 1970s. The world of work.

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United Arab Emirates Technical Review Silicon Valley Oregon 97

adamac.blogspot.com

MARCH 9, 2010

It follows that an "idea guy" who "just needs to hire a few engineers" probably isnt running a tech startup. An HR Department After a certain point, all companies need someone in charge of hiring just to deal with screening, scheduling, and general process, but most startups dont fall into this bag.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2013

She learns how to ship product, how to deal with merchants, how to hire product managers. Somehow she was always on a flight up to Seattle or San Francisco. She had previously acquired UrbanSpoon. Now she was tasked with running it. She was a young mom back then. Sheryl Sandberg leans in? Kara perfected that.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

On Wednesdays, I cut my call calendar short so I can pick up my daughter after school and dodge through Seattle traffic to get her to her riding lesson. I’m not saying it’s easy to balance leading a growth-stage company and being there for my kids, but it has some distinct advantages.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. He had made some structural mistakes in NextMedium that meant the Cap Table and leadership team was a bit wacky. I believe investors had forced him to do this.

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OnlyOnce

AUGUST 19, 2015

I wrote about the initial concept when we launched v2 of the program , and then again when v2 concluded with the hiring of four of the six participants. SendGrid , ReadyTalk , MWH Global , and SpotXchange will participate in the program in the Denver area, and Seattle-based Moz will participate as well.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

And so when that revenue tripled and suddenly I was like, Oh, I can hire people to help me, like this thing is gonna work. But I ended up hiring a lot of my friends. It's in Denver, a Chicago, a Seattle, Phoenix, and Dallas. And so we'll be opening up the hiring platform across about a hundred cities over the next two years.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

The Foundations of the Seattle startup community. While the costs of starting a tech company have plummeted it still does take money to hire a team, launch products and market oneself. It really only needs a few community leaders to kick things off and land a community on a map. The Components of any Great startup community.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

I would know: my current line of work forces me to be on the forefront of hiring and placing people into positions. This is how influential social media has become: David Van Maren, a former talent agent in Seattle and Los Angeles, told me it’s not uncommon for scouts to discover models on Facebook. People Hire Those They Know.

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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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San Francisco San Jose Marketing Technical Review 111

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.

United States 48

United States Las Vegas San Francisco Denver 48

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Look beyond California and you have group purchasing (GroupOn in Chicago, LivingSocial in Washington DC), private sales (Gilt Groupe in NY, HauteLook in LA), artisan marketplaces (Etsy in NY), eCommerce (Amazon in Seattle) and on and on. It’s fucking hard hiring right now.&#. Imagine your company hiring in the Valley.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Maybe it’s time to consider relocating to one of the hubs for startups, like Silicon Valley, Boston, Seattle, or Austin. Hire a lawyer. If you live in the middle of nowhere, your chances of finding the right co-founder for your new high-tech startup are poor. Get to know potential partners before committing. Take your time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2011

Maybe it’s time to consider relocating to one of the hubs for startups, like Silicon Valley, Boston, Seattle, or Austin. Hire a lawyer. If you live in the middle of nowhere, your chances of finding the right co-founder for your new high-tech startup are poor. Get to know potential partners before committing. Take your time.

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www.allthingsdistributed.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

In this pattern the CTO is often a co-founder ofthe business, or one of the first hires. Seattle, WA, 98104 Syndication Subscribe to this weblogs atom feed or rss feed Search Powered by Movable Type 4.01.

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thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Last weekend at Seattle MindCamp we had a session on this topic of “How to divide co-founder equity” and we did talk about there being too much emphasis on what was done in the past and not enough about what is actually going to get done. Yes, the idea gets things started and definitely excites. link] Peter Chee.

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keen.io

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

On the other hand, this was new territory for the founders as well; they had zero experience making offers to new startup hires. As a founder, his salary was lower than any of those offered to the new hires; he also had substantially more equity. But would it make sense for both of us to take that route?

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SiliconHills

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Tableau Software of Seattle has opened an Austin office and is hosting an open house on Thursday, Sept. The company, which creates business intelligence software, is hiring developers, sales and operations employees for its professional services practice based in Austin. It expects to hire more than 150 employees locally.

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