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Best Practices for Remote Hiring · Remote Hiring

Theory for excellence. "Excellence" is a surprisingly generalizable skill. People who've been great at *anything* are more likely to have the drive and self-discipline to excel even at something unrelated. In 2015, we hired a number of ex-Juilliard musicians with no engineering experience with the assumption that “people who know how to be

Tara Seshan • How to Hire Low Experience, High Potential People

Brandy Cerne

Continuum | The Talent Marketplace For Exceptional Executives and Companies

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Sam Blumenthal

How the Greatest Entrepreneurs Hire (h/t David Senra)

Steve Jobs stated that each new hire became a percentage of the company, so why wouldn’t you take the time to find all A-players?

David Ogilvy, as an already established businessman, would see advertisements that he liked and then cold call the person who made the ad — this is how he sourced his

sari

Here’s Why You’re Not Hiring the Best and the Brightest

Jeff Atwood review.firstround.com

Johanna

Product Leadership Rules to Live By From My Experience at Pandora

First Round Capital review.firstround.com

Kassen Qian

Quick tips for hiring remotely | Andreas Klinger

Andreas Klinger klinger.io

Johanna

@mckaywrigley I have a bunch of questions I ask. What would you build for yourself? What did previous companies you've worked for need? What are you an expert in? What have you noticed recently that seemed broken? If you were going to build something just for fun, what would it be?

Paul Graham x.com

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How to Build Remote and Distributed Teams

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Jedric Viera