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33 startup hiring resources from YC, a16z, Seedcamp & top operators - organized by topic. From first hires to exec recruiting.
Hiring is the thing that will make or break your startup - and yet most founders learn it on the fly. There's no shortage of advice out there, but the signal-to-noise ratio is brutal.
So we put together a curated collection of the best hiring resources we've come across, all from people who've actually built and scaled startups. No fluff, no generic HR content - just the stuff that's actually useful when you're trying to build a team from scratch.
We've organized everything by topic so you can jump to what's relevant to you right now. The full collection lives in this Airtable if you want to bookmark it.
The hardest hires are the first ones - you're selling a vision with no proof, competing against companies that can offer stability, and figuring out what you even need at the same time.
Engineering hiring gets its own section because it's where most early-stage founders spend the majority of their recruiting energy - and where the mistakes are most expensive.
At some point, you need people who've done this before at scale. Getting executive hiring wrong is one of the most costly mistakes a growing startup can make.
Building a sales org is fundamentally different from building an engineering team. These cover how to find your first sales hires and scale the GTM function.
Once you've found product-market fit, the challenge shifts from finding great individuals to building a machine that can hire reliably at speed.
It's easy to find advice on what to do. Harder to find honest accounts of what goes wrong.
Stock options, employment law, advisors - the stuff that's not exciting but will bite you if you ignore it.
Steve Bartel (co-founder & CEO of Gem) put together a comprehensive series that walks through the entire hiring process from a founder's perspective - from treating recruiting as sales to closing candidates.
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All 33 resources are available in this Airtable - filterable by topic, source, and category. We'll keep adding to it as we find more.
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