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Liquidation Preference: Your Equity Could Be Worth Millions—Or Nothing

Liquidation preference is a simple, but often misunderstood, concept that can control how much your equity is worth. It can be the difference between a life-changing windfall, and a modest payout.

Caleb Kaiser · Oct 17, 2018
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Surviving Scale: 4 Hiring Lessons From Instacart, Affirm, And Roblox

But how do you successfully sell your vision? And harder yet: How can you compete with big-tech offers? The key is getting candidates to connect with your product.

Caleb Kaiser · Oct 5, 2018
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How To Tell If You're Joining A Rocketship

Joining a startup is a high-risk, high-reward decision. The better you are at evaluating which companies are rocketships and which companies are duds, the more likely you are to succeed. This guide will teach you how.

Caleb Kaiser · Sep 19, 2018
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How Well-Meaning Startups Destroy Employee Trust

The competitive advantages of an employer brand are clear—but there's a right way and a wrong way to build them. Unfortunately, many startups are going about things the wrong way, and damaging their reputation as a result.

Caleb Kaiser · Sep 12, 2018
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What Makes a Good Head of Talent—Beyond "People Skills"

Your head of talent will affect every future hire your startup makes. You can't afford to get this one wrong. To help, we've put together a profile of the ideal head of talent by analyzing data from our 8 million AngelList users.

Caleb Kaiser · Aug 31, 2018
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How to Hire After Raising Your Seed Round

Raising a seed round is a huge accomplishment—but it's also a big responsibility. The pressure is now on for you to grow quickly, and that means learning how to build a real hiring process.

Caleb Kaiser · Aug 23, 2018
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How Keith Rabois Builds Billion-Dollar Businesses: Radical Simplicity

Keith Rabois has built more billion dollar businesses than almost anyone else alive. We asked what philosophy guided him to build PayPal, Opendoor, and Square—and his response was surprisingly simple.

Caleb Kaiser · Aug 21, 2018
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Hiring

How To Hire Your First 10 Employees

In your early stages, you typically don't have the funding, the traction, or the brand to attract top talent—but that doesn't make it impossible. In this guide, we're going to show you how you can hire incredible people as your first ten employees.

Caleb Kaiser · Aug 17, 2018
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How to Hire World-Class Engineers

Hiring quality engineers is daunting. We interviewed 1,000+ startups to design the optimal funnel for hiring world-class engineers—regardless of your space or growth stage.

Caleb Kaiser · Aug 6, 2018
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How To Get A Job At A Crypto Startup

Everything you need to know to land your dream job at a startup in one of the fastest growing markets—cryptocurrency.

Wellfound · Aug 6, 2018
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Why Join A Company That’s Scaling Up

Advice on scaling from Y Combinator's president Sam Altman for founders and employees at high growth companies. What to keep in mind when it’s time to hire and scale up the team.

Sam Altman · Aug 3, 2018
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Midstage Startups Are Your Best First Job In Tech

A guest post by Hunter Walk, including 17 of the best companies to join for new grads

Wellfound · Aug 3, 2018
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How Modern Health has used Wellfound to 3X their team

When the pandemic hit, the need for mental health support at companies grew, throwing Modern Health into a hyper-growth phase. The team then turned to Wellfound to help with tripling their technical talent within one year.

Wellfound · Feb 17, 2022
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Introducing Rolling Funds

Introducing Rolling Venture Funds: An Always Open Venture Fund

Avlok Kohli · Feb 5, 2020
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