Building the initial team for seed stage startups at andrewchen
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Building the initial team for seed stage startups at andrewchen
It’s critical to start with the right set of early customers to kick off all the self-reinforcing growth cycles we’ve discussed above. You have to start by knowing who your best early customers will be — for productivity/collaboration companies that’s often knowledge workers on remote and distributed teams, and often engineers.
Medium • Zero to 1: Product Fundamentals for Go-To-Market
Hiring for an early-stage company requires founders to actively seek out a specific set of traits in each candidate. Our new guide outlines the 3 traits every early-stage hire should exhibit, plus interview questions founders can use to vet: https://t.co/z4ri6lLjIn
Unusual Venturesx.comTakeaways:
- Sales becomes the second most common hire , after engineering.
- A quarter of companies hired a product manager at this point.
- Recruiters become a surprisingly common hire. I did not expect that. This is particularly true across some of the most unique startups, like Linear, Figma, Ramp, and Coda. Here’s Jori Lallo, co-founder of Linear,
Lenny Rachitsky • Hiring your early team
