Investing in Pave | Andreessen Horowitz

Develop some sales/marketing team to deal with enterprise clientsFind developers that are willing to do the less sexy work of building an enterprise service business, likely via compensating them competitively with the private marketFigure out how to reward everyone proportional to their contribution if they do end up creating this multi-billion do... See more

Behind-the-scenes, SkillMagic is building up a database of what makes which types of employees the most productive.

Cold outreach

I was surprised to learn that the second most common channel for finding early employees is cold outreach—finding people you want to hire and reaching out to them directly. These outreaches happened mostly through LinkedIn and GitHub, and unlike channel #1, this is something anyone can do.

“We filled many roles through cold hard outbou

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