How to Not Drown When Hiring Your Startup’s First Few Employees
So you’ve raised your seed, or have gotten enough traction to bootstrap your own growth. Congratulations! Now it’s time for your startup to hire it’s first few employees. You’ve hit…
Startup hiring
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No business can be grown, or product be made, or unicorn startup go public on the NYSE without it. Hiring is a foundational element of every company. Done right hiring the best people for the right roles, can be an unreplicable competitive advantage for your firm. Done wrong, mis-hires can, at best, cause loss of productivity, frustration and monetary losses—at worst, hiring the wrong people, or not hiring the right people, can destroy even the most promising company. Hiring well is part art, and part science. It is a process worth investing in, obsessing over and constantly improving on. If you can hire, then retain, the best people—there is no limit to what your company can achieve.
List Your Startup on AngelList (how-to)
As a startup, AngelList (angel.co) may be the first time an investor stumbles upon what you’re doing. In the last few years, it’s also become a hub of startup talent…
13 Lessons on Hiring the Right People from Founders and Investors
Over the last two years at Avra Talent, we’ve had the pleasure of speaking to a lot of smart people about hiring best practices. Today I wanted to share some…
Applicant Tracking System – Take the Pain out of Hiring
Whether you’re a fully remote team, or a startup with offices in the oh-so-trendy SoMa district of San Francisco, the majority of the hiring process is now managed digitally. From…
Avra Talent Testimonials
We have many goals and values here at AVRA Talent, but one of our main core values is transparency. As the world of work is constantly eyeballing the loyalty of…
Avra Talent’s Connectors Program
At AVRA one of our core values is alignment. This value impacts the way we run our searches, hire and promote our people and interact with our clients. We strive…
How to Craft a Compelling Offer Letter
So you’ve found what appears to be the perfect candidate for your startup’s open role, yay! You may feel elated at the prospect that all those tasks will soon be…
The Five Disciplines of Hiring
Hiring is a full-time job. The irony is that the people who need to hire the most (and the fastest) are usually those who are already slammed with their current…
The Early Stage CEO’s Secret Weapon: How to Hire an Operations Assistant
Recently I discovered an entrepreneurial secret weapon, in the form of a new role we created at AVRA, the “Operational Assistant.” First, I’ll set the scene. In a little more…
Top 10 Sites for Testing Interviewees
There are times when, as humans, we need to follow that innate, solid, more often than not 100% right thing that we all have deep inside of us, that quirky…