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🚀 Exciting News for Startup Leaders! 🚀 We're thrilled to announce the launch of the Hired by Byteboard Startups Program — offering preferred benefits on your first contract with Byteboard! Whether you're building your first engineering team or scaling fast, we’re here to streamline your technical hiring so you can focus on creating something incredible. 💡 Give your engineering team time back and allow Byteboard to take the heavy lifting off your plate. Our project-based assessments save you time on technical screenings and ensure you hire candidates who can tackle real-world challenges. Let us help you hire top talent while you focus on growing your business. Save time on interviewing and get back to innovating. ⚙️ Learn more about the program today! #Startups #Hiring #TechnicalHiring

𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗕𝗲 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗛𝗶𝗿𝗲? Read our latest article that explores the challenges, potential pitfalls, and best practices for selecting your first or second hire, drawing on insights from research, personal experiences, and interviews with founders and venture capitalists. Link to the article in the comments 👇 #hiring #startup #founder

Slow to Hire, Fast to Fire - The ART 🎨 and SCIENCE 🧪 of Building High Performance Teams A practical guide for founders building teams and some thoughts from our own founder, James Chalmers, on what it takes to build incredible teams. “Founders who get it right tend to see building high performance teams as part Art and part Science. The ratio varies, but is a constant is that the foundation for building a strong takes a strong understanding of a ventures needs today, in a year and in 3 years. This is important as founders are hiring for today, but there needs to be a clear path to how those new team members continue to grow and as their roles evolve over the mid and long term. That is the science. The art is at the opposite end of the spectrum. Sometimes you meet someone and you just know they will be an incredible addition to the team. Where they fit in today is not always clear, but there’s a gut instinct that tells you that hire needs to be made. I was fortunate to learn this early. Some of the most important roles I filled ended up stemming from the art of identifying great people and making space for them to join our ventures early.” https://lnkd.in/gU3HX2C5 #founders #teambuilding #startup #strategy #hr

As a founder, it is important to realize that the strength of the venture you are building directly correlates to the strength of the team you are building. Great piece below from BaseCamp that discusses a 'Slow to Hire, Fast to Fire' strategy with some very practical items founders can leverage.

Struggling to balance budget constraints with talent needs? With strategic planning, you can successfully navigate this challenge. Discover how investing in the right talent can drive your startup's growth and success at https://lnkd.in/dAxKhG9V #startup #talent #techhiring #hiring #Strategy 

We know our founder, Cherry Swayne, has an incredible network FULL of superstars! 🌟 But when a client tells us they agree, and those superstars join their company, it still feels pretty awesome. 💚 #scaleup #startup #climatetech #sustainabletech #greentech #cleantech #workonclimate #climatejobs #climateaction #recruitment #retainedrecruitment #hiring #talent #careerchange

🚀 𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐥𝐨𝐚𝐝 your FREE version of '𝐀 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐮𝐩 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦' here: https://lnkd.in/eZ3D2snR. #Hiring #Guide #Whitepaper #Greentech #Recruitment #Scaleup #Startup

"When you start, you know very little about what you are doing." Realistic point by Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures and previously the founding CEO and co-founder of Sun Microsystems. Also, he continues: "People have plans, but it is very, very rare for a company to achieve that plan. So the way to think about where you're starting is a collection of ideas in a relatively rich space that you find you can be passionate about. But the critical part is, the team you build ends up making all the iterative decisions about where you're going to end up." Currently in your hiring process or finding someone to fill in some roles in your team? Listen to this first: ___ Gaining value from these bite-sized startup insights? Follow Startup Bites! 𝗕𝗶𝗴 𝗜𝗱𝗲𝗮𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀, 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗕𝗶𝘁𝗲-𝘀𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗶𝗲𝗰𝗲𝘀 #hiring #teammanagement #recruiting #buildingteams

In startups, a small but highly skilled team of 10 devs can go head to head and even beat a company with 100 devs. Too many people often end up becoming a hindrance rather than a blessing. Growth in startups should always be systematic and sustainable; only hire people when you really need them. This approach reduces layoffs significantly and helps in the creation of a highly functional and efficient team.

Are you a startup leader who is struggling trying to compete for talent who have massive offers from Google, Netflix, Apple? Then join us for this conversation where we’ll talk about our experience “winning this war” for talent from our early days at Airbnb and Patreon!