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Seems like a number of comments are missing the good here. A quick summary of my takeaways: - Ability to leverage talent to speedy outcomes is the competitive
by lumens 13y ago
Seems like a number of comments are missing the good here. A quick summary of my takeaways:
- Ability to leverage talent to speedy outcomes is the competitive advantage of startups. Lean heavily on this.
- Startups habitually underestimate their ability to attract top talent. Don’t submit to this line of thinking, or at minimum work to prove your hypothesis of impossibility.
- One should be ruthless in early shaping of company culture. Certain things are absolutely necessary to get right -- this is one.
- The things that scare away second tier talent can actually attract top tier people. Like focusing product development on your ideal user, one should focus hiring energies on ideal hires.
- alan_cx 13y agoAll of which is summed up by the comments about people from one particular university. Point by point: Easy to leverage people you went to uni with Easy to attract top talent, if you went to uni with it Ruthless? If you mean selecting from a single know talent pool, sure. You'll probably scare away 2nd tier talent, if you a already populated with your mates from a top uni. OK, those are bitter and twisted replies, but being British, I know all about closed shop universities and mates giving mates jobs. Old School Tie we call it. Have a look at our government....