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If your primary motivation in hiring is to impress investors, I think you're putting the cart before the horse. You get investors so you can hire employees. You
by j_baker 13y ago
If your primary motivation in hiring is to impress investors, I think you're putting the cart before the horse. You get investors so you can hire employees. You don't hire employees to get investors.
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- Silhouette 13y agoI've known small but growing businesses who have missed out on serious M&A deals because they'd outsourced so much for so long. The arrangement might have worked well for all concerned, with solid, long-term partnerships between the key organisations. However, when it came to the commercial crunch, the incoming suits didn't see effective partnerships, they saw uncontrollable (in the way they wanted to work) dependencies on key suppliers. It was absurdly short-sighted in each and every case I'm familiar with, but unfortunately being the guy who gets a vote on the acquisition and being smart don't seem to be particularly well correlated.
- j_baker 13y agoWell, ok. Sure if you are looking to get acqui-hired, you need people to be acquihired. That's a completely different situation from trying to convince investors though.
- Silhouette 13y agoI wasn't talking about an acqui-hire, just a business that has outsourced entire functions to specialists who aren't employees. This is not an unusual arrangement in small companies.