Scale, fund & exit
Building your D2C team
The first ten hires that make or break a brand.
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Should my first marketing hire be a generalist or a specialist - performance marketer vs brand marketer?
At sub-₹1 crore scale, hire a versatile performance-and-content generalist who can run ads, write copy and brief a designer, not a narrow specialis...
When do I need to hire an operations or supply chain person instead of doing it myself?
The signal isn't a revenue number, it's when order volume, SKU count or a second warehouse means founder-run ops starts causing customer-facing fai...
When should I hire a CEO or president to run the company so I can step back or focus on product?
This is typically a post-₹50-100 crore or post-Series-B question, not an early one - and even then it's rare and needs real founder-board alignment...
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