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Hiring your first employees

Your first ten hires are your culture.

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How do I compensate early employees with salary and equity in India? Pay a fair, honest salary you can sustain plus meaningful ESOPs from your option pool, early employees take real risk and should share the upside. ... Advanced 3 resources → How do I hire a great salesperson early when I've never sold or managed sales myself? Don't hire a senior sales leader as your first sales hire, you can't manage or evaluate them yet, and you'll overpay for someone who needs a machin... Advanced 2 resources → How do I hire remotely across Indian cities and manage a distributed first team well? Remote lets you hire from anywhere, not just your metro, which is a real edge when great people in smaller cities are underpriced and overlooked. B... Advanced 3 resources → What paperwork and compliance do I need in place before my first employee's start date in India? Get the basics locked before day one: a signed offer letter and employment agreement, an NDA and IP assignment clause (so the work belongs to the c... Advanced 3 resources → How do I fire my first bad hire fast and cleanly without blowing up a five-person team? You'll know within 60 days, and every week you wait, the whole small team watches you tolerate it. Move decisively: be direct and kind, give clear ... Advanced 3 resources →
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