Founding team
Who should your first startup hires be?
A practical guide to deciding which capabilities your startup needs first, what great looks like, and how to avoid common early-stage hiring mistakes.
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Practical hiring advice for founders building teams.
Research-led notes for founders and leadership teams on founding hires, Talent capability, competing for candidates and international expansion.
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Talent capability
When should a startup hire a Head of Talent?
When founder-led hiring stops scaling, what a first Talent leader should actually own, and where fractional support can fit.
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How startups compete with better-known companies
How to build a candidate proposition that can compete with recognised employers without pretending compensation and risk do not matter.
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Hiring the first US sales leader
How UK and European SaaS founders can assess readiness, choose the right profile and avoid hiring ahead of US market learning.
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