2003 Hiring Product 
David Teten
JULY 9, 2012
Often, when startup founders first assemble teams, they hire familiar people – either people they know, or people like them. Those are good reasons to be friends, but poor reasons to hire someone. When you want to hire someone, you should strictly focus on hiring the best possible person for the open job.
David Teten
JULY 9, 2012
Often, when startup founders first assemble teams, they hire familiar people – either people they know, or people like them. Those are good reasons to be friends, but poor reasons to hire someone. When you want to hire someone, you should strictly focus on hiring the best possible person for the open job.
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Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 27, 2010
My original post was directed at hiring managers. It said that I didn’t believe it was a good idea to hire job hoppers. My view still stands – for many hiring managers a large factor in looking through resumes of somebody who is 30+ and has never worked somewhere for more than 18 months will be the job hopping element.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 25, 2010
I keep my competitors as friends and those that didn’t choose me or my product as friends, too. In the 2003/04 timefame I was living in the UK and running my first company. Did we really have good change management procedures if we were willing to launch products without backward compatibility. Quite the opposite.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 25, 2010
I keep my competitors as friends and those that didn’t choose me or my product as friends, too. In the 2003/04 timefame I was living in the UK and running my first company. Did we really have good change management procedures if we were willing to launch products without backward compatibility. Quite the opposite.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 9, 2009
It was 2003 and I was training for a marathon so I was in great shape (yes, I know this was YEARS ago but I did complete it in 3:57). I hired an executive recruiter and had 7 finalist candidates that I interviewed. And in the end I hired him. We rebuilt everything in Flash and now have a better product. Small story.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 4, 2011
I ran my first marathon in London this way in 2003 raising $3,000 for Parkinson’s disease (and finishing in under 4 hours – my publicly stated goal). I was recently talking with a startup company who wanted me to try their product. I’m a big believer in product stability & performance before adding too many features.
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