Open Source Startup

Unit 17: Hiring

Key Takeaways

• Learn how to identify quality talent
• Learn best practices for hiring
• Learn when to hire for a role

Readings

• High Growth Handbook (Gil)
• Chapter 3: Recruiting, Hiring, and Managing Talent
• Hello, Startup
• Chapter 11: Hiring for your Startup
• From Impossible to Inevitable
• Chapter 12: Hiring Best Practices for Sales
• Founder’s Dilemmas
• Chapter 8: Hiring Dilemmas: The Right Hires at the Right Time
• What Every Engineer Should Know About Starting a High-Tech Business Venture
• Chapter 11: Building Your Team
• The Startup Equation
• Chapter 9: Rewards of Great Teams

Deliverables

• Create a cheat sheet of hiring best practices
• Evaluate how to integrate hiring best practices into your startup’s product