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How to Build a Startup Team: VC-Backed Guide for Seed Stage Hiring

Bonfire Ventures · bonfirevc.com Free Beginner

An investor's view of seed-stage team-building, which tends to be more disciplined about sequencing hires against milestones than founder-written advice usually is.

  • Sequences hiring against specific milestones rather than a fixed headcount plan.
  • VC perspective on which early roles most affect fundability, not just execution.
  • Seed-stage-specific, so directly relevant to a founder before/around first institutional capital.
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The question it answers

  1. What are the first 5-10 hires a D2C founder should make, and in what order?

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