1/ Today I prepared for talking about common mistakes startups make (founding -> growth stages) by writing it in tweet form. I ramble too much when public speaking and hoped it would make the core ideas clearer in my mind and more concise. Think it worked. Here are the tweets
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8/ Hiring too fast kills you via bad decision making. You lose rigor in hiring process (bad people -> bad decisions), there’s no effective onboarding/setting people up for success (good people -> bad decisions), growth stalls, conflict rises (good people leave)
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9/ Avoid all of these...and there's still myriad other ways you could fail so don't attach too much of your identity to the outcome of your startup :-)
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Rarely happens in practice though, whereas hiring too fast kills tons of startups. So if you have to err on one side or the other (and who doesn't err?), err on the side of hiring slowly.
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I’d love to see this tweet from PG as a billboard on 101 for triplebyte!
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Let's say you have the best SaaS product on the market, with no sales team needed (pricing is low), then I wonder where the growth would come from? I think the growth would come from "marketing" but it's not clear what that is. Do you need to hire anybody at all? Maybe not.
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I guess in that case the way to grow would be "top-line", with no hiring needed.
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