15 Minute Founder Podcast

15 Minute Founder E2: Hiring your first 10 employees


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The very first people that you hire at your startup will have a profound (and often unchangeable) impact on your company. 

So who are the first 10 employees at your startup that you should hire for?

Here are the topics  we discussed in our conversation:

  • How do you find people you can trust in to do critical parts of early building?
  • In what situations should you be hiring individual contributors versus experienced managers?
  • Why you should hire a “BDR-Plus” early on in building a B2B-SaaS company 
  • Should you recruit talent from larger organizations or from smaller organizations?
  • How to think about hiring business generalists vs narrow specialists
  • Smart tactics to close on your ideal candidate 



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