Leadership: Hiring & recruitment
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How to build a vivid vision and scale a company from startup to 100 people
Cameron Herold
December 16, 2022
Management
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Vision & mission
8
Hiring & recruitment
6
- A four-page future snapshot attracts the right people before you hire anyone.
- Untrained managers — not bad strategy — are why companies stall at 30 people.
- The CEO job changes completely at every stage from 1 to 100 employees.
Hiring & recruitment
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Five HR essentials for hiring your first employee
HR Party of One
December 15, 2022
Hiring & recruitment
9
Processes & SOPs
6
- Misclassifying an hourly worker as exempt carries the heaviest penalties
- An HRIS beats DIY payroll on reliability, cost, and compliance from day one
- A 30-60-90 plan and one-on-ones prevent early performance problems
Hiring & recruitment
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How to hire and leverage the right COO for your company
Cameron Herold
December 5, 2022
Hiring & recruitment
10
Management
7
Delegation
6
- The wrong COO costs 15x their salary — $3–4M per year.
- Hire someone who has done the job, not just knows how.
- Trust must be total before day one — not built on the job.
Hiring & recruitment
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Hiring for culture and growth mindset in early-stage startups
Semrush
December 1, 2022
Hiring & recruitment
9
Culture building
8
Outsourcing & delegation
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- One bad cultural hire in five can poison the whole team.
- Enthusiasm and brand passion outperform credentials for early hires.
- Keep your biggest growth drivers in-house; outsource only commodity work.
Hiring & recruitment
Podcast
How Yo-Yo Ma built the Silk Road Ensemble from scratch
Masters of Scale
November 21, 2022
Hiring & recruitment
9
Management
8
Case study
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- Mission-driven recruiting beats job descriptions — passion is the filter.
- Language barriers dissolved within days through shared musical work.
- Too much control kills innovation; live performance demands productive chaos.
Hiring & recruitment
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How to hire the right person next in your business
Dan Martell
November 14, 2022
- Hire to buy back your time, not to add capacity.
- Score role options on money, time saved, and affordability.
- Document the first two weeks before making any offer.
Hiring & recruitment
Podcast
How to hire, be hired, and recruit as a product leader
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
November 3, 2022
Hiring & recruitment
10
Management
5
- Big-name CPOs often aren't right for early-stage companies
- Build candidate relationships months before you actually need to hire
- Recruiters who treat candidates as commodities lose the best people
Hiring & recruitment
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How succession planning works and why every organisation needs it
HR Party of One
October 18, 2022
Hiring & recruitment
9
Processes & SOPs
6
Long-term planning
5
- Proactive plans prevent costly scrambles when key employees leave
- Specialised individual contributors can be as hard to replace as executives
- Transparent internal development boosts retention and morale
Hiring & recruitment
Podcast
Building and hiring high-performing growth teams
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
October 13, 2022
Hiring & recruitment
9
Iteration & feedback loops
7
Retention & loyalty
6
- A four-competency model for hiring growth talent without pattern-matching
- Onboarding shifts retention curves 10–20 points — it's not a conversion tool
- Evaluate companies on People, Mission, Financials — settling for two always backfires
Hiring & recruitment
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How to run an effective employee first day
HR Party of One
October 13, 2022
Hiring & recruitment
8
Processes & SOPs
7
- First-day quality directly drives 18-month retention rates up to 50%
- A culture guide turns introductions into lasting clarity on norms and expectations
- A 30-60-90 day plan gives new hires immediate direction and measurable goals
Hiring & recruitment
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Seven lessons from hiring a CEO smarter than you
Neil Patel
September 29, 2022
Hiring & recruitment
9
Delegation
8
Vision & mission
5
- Why hiring a smarter CEO beats staying in charge yourself
- Talented but lazy executives will drag your whole company down
- Culture fit matters more than every other box on the list
Hiring & recruitment
Podcast
TinySeed Tales: how Cloud Forecast hired a senior engineer and planned its next stage
Startups For the Rest of Us
September 29, 2022
Hiring & recruitment
8
Long-term planning
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Content marketing
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- Hired a senior engineer in two weeks via warm intro and tight process
- Bootstrappers must run experiments in series — funded rivals do seven things at once
- At 30k MRR, too many options becomes the real bottleneck
Hiring & recruitment
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GWC: the three criteria for putting people in the right seat
EOS Worldwide
September 29, 2022
Hiring & recruitment
9
Management
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- All three GWC criteria must be yes — one gap fails the test
- Want it can't be bought; get it can't be trained into someone
- Capacity gaps are fixable; get it and want it gaps are deal killers
Hiring & recruitment
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Hiring top-tier talent for your startup: five principles
Rob Walling
September 26, 2022
Hiring & recruitment
9
Vision & mission
6
Culture building
5
- Top talent chooses you — so give them reasons Fortune 500 can't.
- Your real advantages: autonomy, impact, low politics, interesting problems.
- Retaining great hires matters more than landing them in the first place.
How to implement a career pathing plan at your organization
HR Party of One
September 22, 2022
Management
9
Hiring & recruitment
8
- Vertical promotion isn't the only path — lateral and expansive routes matter too.
- A levels document standardizes skills, scope, and pay in one transparent reference.
- Employees who can't see a future with you will quietly go find one elsewhere.