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Hiring and Leadership

Open source

Hiring for an OSS company

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Learn how to hire engineers and other critical roles for an open-source software company.

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Hiring and Leadership

Startup hiring

Write great tech job descriptions for early stage startups

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Learn 8 tips for writing job descriptions to help attract top talent as well as sell your company as a great place to work.

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Hiring and Leadership

Startup hiring

3 traits in early-stage startup hires

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Learn how to gauge a candidate’s passion, upside potential, and cultural alignment in addition to understanding their experience and technical capabilities.

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Hiring and Leadership

Startup hiring

How to ‘sell your company’ to prospective hires in the Seed Stage

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We share our best advice for founders on selling their vision and opportunities for prospective new hires, including a checklist of candidates’ common considerations.

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Hiring and Leadership

Startup hiring

How the best founders recruit their first engineers

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We share expert insights for recruiting top-tier engineers for early-stage startups.

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Hiring and Leadership

Leadership

Managing a Series A board meeting

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Unusual Ventures Co-Founder John Vrionis shares top tips for running an effective board meeting and includes a meeting outline template.

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Hiring and Leadership

Startup hiring

Make a competitive job offer for a startup role

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A leading tech recruiter shares advice on making an attractive salary offer to prospective employees, and suggests asking about the candidate’s compensation expectations in the very first conversation.

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Hiring and Leadership

Startup hiring

Holistic hiring for hyper-growth in startups

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Hiring the right people for your startup is a key driver to raising the next funding round. If you begin holistic hiring now, your company will reap the rewards for years to come.

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Hiring and Leadership

Startup hiring

How to hire a product designer for early-stage startups

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Building enterprise software? Here’s when and how you should hire a product designer — before it’s too late.

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Hiring and Leadership

Startup hiring

3 steps for equity success for early-stage startup founders

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Establish a fair and defensible framework for granting equity to early employees and create an environment of trust and positivity to help your startup succeed.

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Hiring and Leadership

Startup hiring

Develop your startup’s online recruiting brand

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Learn how to build your startup's online recruiting brand to attract the best candidates in tech.

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Hiring and Leadership

Leadership

DataStax case study

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Former DataStax CEO Billy Bosworth shares how he identified priorities during the company’s critical early phase — before the tech startup crossed the $100M ARR milestone.

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Hiring and Leadership

Leadership

CEO/Founder prioritization: a heatmap organization template

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Billy Bosworth, the CEO of Dremio (and formerly Datastax), shares one of his most valuable tools: a template to help founders ruthlessly prioritize to align your team and get things done.

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Hiring and Leadership

Startup hiring

An end-to-end hiring process for early stage startups

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Hiring is a muscle an organization builds over time, so it’s critical to put a process in place earlier rather than later. Having a clearly defined hiring process can help early startups avoid costly and destabilizing hiring mistakes.

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