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Hiring your first employees

Your first ten hires are your culture.

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Should I hire full-time employees, contractors, or an agency first? For core product and anything that IS your business, hire people who own it, contractors and agencies are great for well-scoped, non-core work but ... Beginner 2 resources → How do I write a job description that actually gets good people to apply to an unknown startup? Stop copying corporate JDs. Lead with the problem you're solving and the specific impact this hire will have in the first 90 days, not a laundry li... Beginner 2 resources → How do I make my very first hire feel productive in their first two weeks instead of lost? Have a written onboarding plan before they walk in, even if it's a single doc. Give them one real, shippable task in week one so they feel useful, ... Beginner 3 resources →
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