Building the initial team for seed stage startups at andrewchen

1. TeamWho is your team?Who are the 2-3 key hires you need to make for the company?How do you plan to scale the team in the next year?Why is your team uniquely qualified to solve this problem? What unique insight do you have?

Unsurprisingly, hiring friends and former colleagues was by far the biggest channel. This also in part explains why multi-time founders, and anyone with a large network (e.g. Y Combinator), have an advantage:

“All of our early hires were friends/ex-coworkers.”

“First hires were practically all former colleagues. Several people who worked with me in m

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