What Do Top 1% Startup Employees Want?
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What Do Top 1% Startup Employees Want?
How to convince people to join your startup
I actually researched and covered this in a previous issue, so go read that post. Here’s the high-level summary of what you need to get right:
I actually researched and covered this in a previous issue, so go read that post. Here’s the high-level summary of what you need to get right:
- Captivating vision —Make it easy for candidates to visualize what you are building toward and to feel like their work will be meaningful.
- A++ early team —The best
Lenny Rachitsky • Hiring your early team
I think future companies, especially those that haven’t raised money yet or haven’t raised substantial capital or haven’t gotten product/market fit even loosely, when they’re hiring early employees, they’re really just hiring late founders. And so they should be giving 1, 2, 3, 4% of the company, instead of giving 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4%. The issue wit
... See moreElad Gil • High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups From 10 to 10,000 People
Most startups are unprepared to deal with the customer's ROI. At best, they ignore it, and at worst, they confuse it with the price of the product.