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Ask HN: Scaling a company from founders to a small team?
Does anyone know how to, or has anyone around here taken a team from the founders to becoming a small team? (without investment money)
I read a lot about scaling a business from a small team onward ... but not a lot on getting over the hump to build a stable small team (4-18 people).
- p1esk 7y agoTo clarify, you have the money, right?
- jppope 7y agoThis is 100% not about me... it's about trying to understand the phase in a startup/ company's lifecycle from an academic perspective... I'm trying to learn. To directly answer your question I wouldn't start a company and have it be undercapitalized. It's just not my scene.
- ryacko 7y agoThat’s a small business. Start out as small as possible with as little risk as possible, put more hours into it over time, increase capital as needed, hire people when you run out of waking hours in the day... Hence the famous startups in a founder’s garage.
- jppope 7y agoAgree completely... I'm thinking more how does one get passed employees leaving, revenue/ project swings, market changes, etc in orderly way. What are the tricks to getting passed being a small business without buying your way out...
- sethammons 7y agoHiring contractors to start, and, if the work-need is constant, hire