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🚨 Calling exit strategy experts!🚨 We are officially #HIRING for a Director, Exits & Realizations to join the Transaction Team under Christen Paras' leadership! Christen joined us as employee number 18 and has been instrumental in our growth. This role will support her in executing exit strategies and value realization for our portfolio companies. “Our goal is to maximize value for our investors. In order to consistently drive excellent exit outcomes, we knew we needed to do something most firms don’t—build a team purely focused on just that. MiddleGround and our Management Teams work so hard to execute on value-creation plans developed during our underwriting that merely hiring advisors toward the end of our hold to sell our portfolio companies just isn’t enough. We have to focus on exit strategy and market positioning throughout our ownership from Day 1,” said Christen. If you're a results-driven exit strategist ready to leave your mark, apply here or reach out to our team below: https://bit.ly/45uASYt Zach Miller, VP of Human Capital, zmiller@middleground.com Christen Paras, Co-Head of Transaction Team, cparas@middleground.com #privateequity #careers

🚩 Red flag for a small development and/or investment firm -- little revenue and no plans to change the business model In order to hire the best talent - you need to either: 1) Be growing like a rocket 🚀 2) Have viable plans to grow like a rocket If you've been running a small firm for a long time, haven't had much financial success, and don't have plans to change what you're doing - it's going to be hard to find great talent to join you.

Unsurprisingly this took longer than anticipated.. but draft one is done and I'm excited to share the final result in the coming weeks! I had the pleasure of interviewing professionals from 8VC, Creative Artists Agency, Next Coast Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Firebrand Ventures, Atento Capital, TXV Partners, and Foundation Capital then synthesizing the cumulative insights into a 10+ page playbook with the following outline - What is Platform - Investor Relations & Downstream Support - GTM Support - Portfolio Support - Events & Community Building - Operations - Portfolio Hiring - How Platform varies from Fund to Fund - Measuring Success - Breaking into a Platform role Finalizing everything then will have more details coming soon!

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We’re growing! We just hired another employee inside our acquisitions company 🔥 This means… ✅ Scalability ✅ Growth ✅ Delegation ✅ Time Freedom Almost everyone I talk to says they want time freedom but they don’t usually do what’s needed to attain it. Oftentimes they don’t even know what they need to do. Finding, hiring, training, and retaining the right employee isn’t easy. But nothing worthwhile is ever easy. If you want time freedom, you need to position yourself to attain it. No more procrastinating. This year is the year for growth in commercial real estate. Here’s a brand new opportunity for you… I’ll help the next 6 people who drop “Sign Me Up!” below make their first 6 figures this year through real estate. Don’t miss this… Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity 💯

🤘 𝗥𝗼𝗰𝗸𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿 𝗛𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘁 🤘 We're on the hunt for not one, but 𝘁𝘄𝗼 𝗩𝗣-𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 pros for a stellar opportunity in sunny Miami! 🌴 Here's the scoop: 🏆 Role: Vice President, Investment 📍 Location: Miami, FL 🎯 Firm: Award-winning, LMM PE firm 💼 Your Mission: Lead the charge in deal execution - soup to nuts If you're ready to make waves in the investment world and you've got the skills to shine, be sure to reach out. Your next big break could be a beach day away! In case you need more convincing, below is this week's forecast for Miami. Early April is showing off, and honestly, it's not too shabby! . . . #privateequity #lowermiddlemarket #miami #investment

"What is NEXT Ventures?" - a question many of you might have 💭 . Take a look at our very first edition of our Newsletter (Next Letter) and check out our successes for the last year's Q3 period 📰 . Whether it be hitting milestones, recruiting new talent, or taking steps to Changing Lives, we've done it all 🚀 ! All you need to do is take a look 🔍 : https://lnkd.in/gASKS89S

We get it—searching for a new career can be stressful and overwhelming. And if you're a hiring leader, finding the top talent to help your business thrive is no small feat. At Spark Talent, we’re here to support you every step of the way, making the process smoother and more successful.⚡

#thankyou For all the lovely messages last week checking in to wish me luck on my first day, seeing how the first week went & generally just being the usual wonderful lot that you always are.. Awfully poor form on my part, amidst the hurly-burly of onboarding (which was super slick by the way!), training & all that exciting stuff, I inadvertently turned my back on LinkedIn! 🔙 So, without further ado *drum roll* I'm at Capital on Tap. No shameless sales plug 🔌 in this post as this is more of a 'thank you' but hey if you're curious you know what to do (click it!) Still in my ever beloved Shoreditch, about three minutes from my previous office to be fair, I never seem to stray far from these streets. The candidate experience was on point ➡️ from that very first call through to last week's knowledge dump, I am now chomping at the bit to crack on this week.. Superb opportunity, cracking bunch of people, top notch product AND the snacks, you should see the snacks! #newchapter #newjob #newboy #fintech #tech #techsales #shoreditch #businessdevelopment #bdm #salescareer #mynetwork #network #cheers

Founders: what would you do if someone pitched you on a free 30-day trial to work for you? 🤯 That's what Lindsay Goldman, Chief of Staff at Rupa Health did when she was looking to become Erik Torenberg's CoS. Here's what her crazy initiative showed ⤵ 🎰 An understanding that betting on someone without experience or credibility in tech is a risk that needed to be balanced, hence the 30-day free trial 🏆 Extreme levels of confidence that this founder would want to hire her after the trial period ❗ Pragmatic realism about it being hard to stand out as a generalist for one of the hottest roles in tech (check out the email below -- it definitely stands out) 🏀 That she's the all-in, guns blazing, shoot-your-shot type, and who wouldn't want that person on their team? Result: she interviewed with Erik but ultimately ended up as Chief of Staff to Todd Jackson at First Round. Pretty incredible outcome :) #chiefofstaff #recruiting