Originally published at www.pehub.com on December 7, 2015. A significant event happened in early 2013: a new venture capital fund was born. This may not sound so significant to you, but it was significant to me and my partners at Subtraction Capital…. Read more »
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How to Hire
Originally published on Medium by Henry Ward, Founder & CEO of eShares. Below is an excerpt from a talk I gave at the eShares Town Hall in November 2015. I hope it is helpful to other CEOs struggling with hiring. TLDR Hiring Principles: Hiring… Read more »
2016: The Year of the Business of Health
Originally published at PokitDok.com on January 7th, 2016 by Lisa Maki, CEO & Co-Founder of PokitDok. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, signed into law in 2010, put healthcare under a microscope with its relentless focus on higher quality care at a lower cost…. Read more »
The Subtraction Capital Investing Thesis
At Subtraction Capital, we invest in companies we would work for. Literally, if the fund did not exist tomorrow, Jason or I (usually both though) need to be able to say that we would be totally excited about being an employee at… Read more »
5 Essential Habits Every Successful CEO Needs to Adopt Today
Originally published at Inc.com on October 29, 2015 by Bubba Page, Founder of QuotaDeck. I have loved getting to know venture capitalists from all over the country during my time fundraising for my company QuotaDeck and probably will be back at it again next… Read more »
Interview with an Engineer that Knows Marketing
He had me at “We need to dynamically append sharing urls with utm codes.” For those of you in marketing who have ever met someone like Pete O’Leary of Chefs Feed, you know what I mean. Pete is one of those rare,… Read more »
The Zen of Hiring and Retaining Top Talent in Silicon Valley - Part 2
In Part 1, I reviewed a general philosophy that starts a framework for managing very talented folks in Silicon Valley. Remember, this is the Big Leagues of tech, and if you want your company to grow fast you need to attract and retain… Read more »
Horses Dressing Up as Unicorns for Halloween
Trick or Treat! Really the horses have been dressing up as Unicorns for a while, but Halloween just seems like a fun day to call out the emperor’s clothes for the costumes they are in many cases. Since @AileenLee @CowboyVC coined the… Read more »
The Zen of Hiring and Retaining Top Talent in Silicon Valley - Part 1
Hiring talented people and letting them execute (and not leave) is the only path to success for a startup. As I said in the “Subtraction = Growth” blogpost, bandwidth is the most critical resource of any startup. A manager can not afford… Read more »
Creating a Foundation for High-Growth Marketing
This is my first post on working with start up companies in the area of User Acquisition and Engagement. As Operating Partner for Subtraction Capital and during my time at BEA, Red Bricks Media, Levi’s and Practice Fusion, I predominantly worked on… Read more »