2/ But the larger issue now is: what's the best way to do recruitment *at this moment*? Say I have need for a few different roles. Besides competence, I want to make sure I'm working with people I can work with *for a very long time*.
-
-
Show this thread
-
3/ How do you do that as quickly as possible but also in a way that doesn't create an artificial environment or one that excludes the best possible candidates?
Show this thread -
4/ For example, I once collaborated with someone on a joint weekend project. The experience was really fun for us! Then we worked together on a brief professional contract. We did not work well together. It's a wildly different setting. We still get along but we both hated it.
Show this thread -
5/ Alternatively, I'm not sure, "hey, let's do a trial period. I'll pay you to help me build this now, and if it works well, I'll make you a cofounder" has good selection pressures. As the recruited person, I'd feel like I'm in a precarious position that's ripe for exploitation.
Show this thread -
6/ More than that, there's a lot of precarity going around now. Say I know a great Google engineer that I'd ask to be a cofounder — now seems like precisely the moment where they'd say, "no thank you," even if they would have said, "YES PLEASE!" six months ago.
Show this thread -
7/ If I don't get into YC, I know the solo issue is going to be what sinks me. Teams are critical, and formation/recruitment may be much more difficult now than it usually is. So I'd like to hear strategies people know of, especially if they used them in "war time" before.
Show this thread -
P.S. To the people who have reached out to me and those I've reached out to recently, this in no way discounts our ongoing conversations.
Show this thread
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
what if you just crushed it without YC
-
I can limp along with no pay burning my savings for a while longer. I can't pay anyone else though. And, I think the nature of what I'm trying to do plus timing exigency means I do need YC or someone like them as accelerant.
- 4 more replies
New conversation -
-
-
Wooh, lots of thoughts...Cofounding is a marriage. It takes time to build that relationship. So, ask people you already know or start dating by asking your friends if they know anyone who is single.
-
In the short run, YC can be a good place to meet potential co-founders and finding co-founders should be part of your work plan if you get in.
- 2 more replies
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.