Entrepreneurs: Hiring is Important
by Miki Saxon
The fastest way to kill your startup is to screw up your hiring.
If you don’t kill the company bad hiring will your culture.
Even if nothing dies poor hiring will make growth far more difficult.
I’m not the only one who thinks so.
Vator.tv asks this question in its investor profiles: What is the #1 mistake entrepreneurs make; samplings of recent responses are telling:
- Rajil Kapoor, managing director of Mayfield – Not hiring people better than themselves
- Tim Chang of Norwest Venture Partners – Not building a world-class team
- Joe Kraus, entrepreneur and investor – Not hiring well and/or hiring too fast (lesson learned as an entrepreneur – hire slowly and hire better than yourself, always.)
A few years ago I wrote You R Who You Hire; that wasn’t the first time I wrote on the topic (there are dozens of posts here on the importance of hiring well and how to do it) and this one won’t be the last.
So in the interest of better hiring, I’m posting RampUp’s CheatSheet for InterviewERS for you to use. It works for any hiring manger, whether in a startup, an enterprise or anything in-between.
Be sure to join me next week for a way to ensure a great interview.
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