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by arcticbull 2478 days ago
If you're at a startup you better be hiring! That's your #1 job! You better keep that bar high because the next round of folks will be hired by them. Further, at a small startup you can't get away from a bad hire, they're literally adjacent to you for 50+ hours a week.

Further to this point, networking is crucial too, but it's more networking outside the company. With other startups, with other technical folks -- your hiring pipeline is built on your personal network until you get to at least 20+.
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littleblah 2478 days ago
To add to this, I found these resources great:

1. https://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-hire

2. https://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec02/

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SMFloris 2478 days ago
As the CTO of a small-ish startup, this rings so true. All our employees were hired from our network. Its only now that we'll look for other sources to benefit or hiring pipeline.
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