How to Hire — Startups, Wanderlust, and Life Hacking
Below is an excerpt from a talk I gave at the eShares Town Hall in November 2015. I hope it is helpful to other CEOs struggling with hiring.TLDRHiring Principles:Hiring means we failed to execute and...
View ArticleA Framework to Maximize Your Startup’s Hiring Success
After a startup attains product market fit and begins to exceed the first breaking point of the startup management structure around 10 employees, it’s time to codify the company’s values. The values of...
View ArticleA Data-Centric Approach to Interviewing
“Talent is the limiting resource in everything we do right now.” If that observation rings true, you’re not alone. Despite every effort, most startups struggle to hire the best people. My partners and...
View ArticleHow to Spot and Magnify the Powers of Your Engineering Superheroes
It may not be instinctual to link director Christopher Nolan and Looker founder Lloyd Tabb, but the two might view the world through a shared lens. A serial entrepreneur, Tabb has assembled development...
View Article16 lessons on scaling from Eric Schmidt, Reid Hoffman, Marissa Mayer, Brian...
From September 2015 to December 2015, I took Stanford University’s CS183C course — Technology-enabled Blitzscaling — taught by Reid Hoffman, John Lilly, Chris Yeh, and Allen Blue. I listened and took...
View ArticleHow Startups Can Build a Recruiting Machine
The competition for hiring the best top talent in startups has never been higher. The best people are almost never on the market, so it’s imperative to develop recruiting processes to find and sell...
View ArticleIndispensable Growth Frameworks from My Years at Facebook, Twitter and...
Imagine you asked your finance team about how money enters and moves through your company, and they couldn’t tell you exactly where each dollar goes and is spent. You’d probably fire them all. So why...
View ArticleThe Total Talent Reboot — How This Startup Overhauled Its Workforce
Two years ago, Tim Chen presided over a tech startup that employed mostly former Wall Street finance types (who were mostly new graduates). He’d bootstrapped his company, Nerdwallet, for over five...
View ArticleHire a Top Performer Every Time with These Interview Questions
Hiring the right people is extremely hard. Not only is the market tightly constrained — especially for tech companies, but the unwritten rules for how to hire are often plain wrong. With more...
View ArticleThe Zero B.S. Method To Recruiting A Killer Sales Force
In most interview situations there’s often an odd, sometimes disturbing imbalance, and it boils down to one word: power. Who has it, who doesn’t. Typically it’s the interviewer who has more power,...
View ArticleHow This Startup’s Culture Won It an Awesome C-Suite, Funding and Partnerships
Five years ago, short-track skater Apolo Ohno became the most decorated US athlete in Winter Olympics history, midfielder Andrés Iniesta helped bring Spain its first World Cup title, and GiveForward...
View ArticleOn hiring.
Pablo VigueraFollow + Pablo Viguera Sep 147 min read Gonçalo Guerreiro and 22 others recommended On hiring. At a (growing) startup. “The last few months have been pretty hectic”. I’m pretty sure this...
View Article13 experienced startup CTOs offer their top tips to first-time CTOs
For many techie types (and marketing, biz-dev, and other types too, for that matter) joining a startup and being a part of something that could potentially become the next big thing, is a truly...
View ArticleSales and Employee Onboarding Best Practices
Having a high performing team means: Hiring the right people Creating a structure and culture for them to do great work Equipping them with the knowledge and skills to work effectively These first two...
View ArticleHow to Fight Startup Burnout via @mattermark
If you only have a second, scroll to the bottom. I’ve aggregated 7 articles on fighting burnout and 5 travel startups that can help. In this post I explore the cause of burnout at startups, the...
View ArticleThis 90-Day Plan Turns Engineers into Remarkable Managers
There’s an all-too-common cycle in tech these days. Startup avoids management. Founder makes all the decisions. Startup gets traction. Hiring takes off. Management is suddenly needed. Founder turns to...
View ArticleHow to find the best engineers for your startup
Interviews are incredibly expensive, for both parties. Great screeners are vital to ensure that no one is wasting anyone’s time. Here’s how we do them in Intercom. It’s easy to underestimate the true...
View ArticleWhat Your First 100 Hires Will Look Like
There’s an exercise I’ve been through with many founders that are just getting to Initial Traction, say $1m in ARR or so, sometimes less, where I map out their future hiring. They are often a bit...
View ArticleFire Faster: Five Excuses Startup CEOs Give For Not Getting Rid of Low...
Letting someone go from your company because they’re failing to meet your expectations is emotional. It’s emotional the first time you do it and it’s still emotional the 100th (I’ve personally had to...
View ArticleHow SoundCloud Keeps Communication Flowing Across 4 Offices in 4 Time Zones
This is how hard building healthy internal communications is at a growing startup: SoundCloud moved its VP of Community — the man who built its 20+ team of community managers and support specialists...
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