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Hiring your first employees
Your first ten hires are your culture.
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When should I make my first hire?
Hire later than feels comfortable, the best YC companies wait, because employees add cost, complexity, and communication overhead you can't easily ...
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 ...
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...
Where do I actually source candidates for my first hires without a recruiter budget?
Your network is your best channel, but it runs dry fast, so treat sourcing as active outbound, not posting-and-praying. Mine LinkedIn, GitHub, and ...
Should my first hires be generalists or specialists, and how do I tell the difference in an interview?
Hire generalists for your first handful of seats. Early on the work shifts weekly, and a narrow specialist who only does one thing well will be idl...
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...
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