espite being coastally challenged (currently living in Philadelphia), Josh has been an active entrepreneur and investor in the Internet industry since its commercialization. In 1992, while he was a student at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Josh co-founded Infonautics Corporation – an Internet information company. In 1996, Infonautics went public on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
Introducing the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire
One of the most useful things a VC can ever do for a portfolio company is to help a CEO make a key hire. While every hire is important, some additions are pivotal value creating moments in the life of a company.
In an effort to find new ways to be helpful to the companies that we invest in, First Round Capital is starting a weekly e-mail newsletter that will highlight some of the best opportunities to work with the great teams we've backed. Each week, we are going to send out a single e-mail with just 2 or 3 senior-level jobs (Director-level and above) that we want to find the best people for.
We just sent out our first email went out this week, which featured three amazing opportunities:
Vice President, Marketing - DoubleVerify (NYC)
Regional Vice President of Sales - BazaarVoice (Austin)
Senior Director, Product Management, BigDeal.com - San Francisco, CA
Would you like to get these weekly emails? If so, sign up here...
(And if you're interested in seeing all 166 current job openings at First Round Capital portfolio companies, be sure to check out http://jobs.firstround.com/ or just follow FRCJobs on Twitter).
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