Hiring Advice

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Hiring a COO isn’t easy at the early-stage and is wrought with more danger than potential success. Make sure you take the time to understand if you are ready for this hire. When it is done right, the impact on you and the company is tremendous.

Mike Smith

twitter.com

sari

Find out their wins above replacement. Through the stories they tell, look to see if the end result of the thing they did would have been significantly worse without their involvement. Try to separate their actions from those of their team or the circumstance. This quality should both highlight their talents and their sense of agency and

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

Brandy Cerne

slope_vs_starting.md

Professor John Ousterhout gist.github.com

Keely Adler

Building the initial team for seed stage startups at andrewchen

andrewchen.com

Jordan Bester

If you're the CEO of a fast-growing startup, the mistake you'll make in the next year that you'll regret most will probably be a hiring mistake. Possibly hiring someone established, which you'll feel you should do now you're getting big, and which VCs will strongly encourage.

Paul Graham twitter.com

Johanna

How to hire

Sam Altman blog.samaltman.com

Johanna

Adam Grant On Interviewing to Hire Trailblazers, Nonconformists and Originals

First Round Capital review.firstround.com

Johanna

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

Jeff Atwood review.firstround.com

Johanna

6 Tips for Managing Remote Teams

Jordan Husney focus.parabol.co

Jedric Viera