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…
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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…
How to Create a Company Playbook
As a remote-first company, it’s essential to have one place that documents our processes, outlines our values and is continually updated to reflect any changes. But whether you are remote, or…
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…
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…
The Strategist: We’re Hiring!
In the mid-term future I believe that most people won’t work for a company, but will instead work with multiple firms and entrepreneurs. AVRA’s internal business model is a perfect…
How to Create a Compelling Job Description
Hiring the right person starts with understanding your needs, then synthesizing them into a compelling job description. We use this formula with all of our clients at AVRA, so I…
How to Hire an Epic Executive Assistant
Each week I get asked if I have any great EA or Chief of Staff candidates on standby by a startup founder or VC. Short answer, I don’t. But, all…
Entrepreneurs, there is a 90% chance you’ll fail if you don’t get this right.
So you’ve raised your seed, or have gotten enough traction to bootstrap your own growth. Congratulations! You’ve hit mile marker one in a very long race, but don’t break out…
Smart Startups: Outsource Your People Ops at First
You are a startup founder, or an early hire at a company that is lucky enough to be growing — fast. At first, hiring was easy because you tapped your…