Agile Bandwidth Hiring 
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 11, 2020
It’s tough for an elephant to be agile. Your personal bandwidth is quickly exceeded. In all cases, hiring the best people is likely more important than adding a few features to your solution. Every aspect of every product requires development, testing, manufacturing, marketing, and distribution.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 6, 2023
It’s tough for an elephant to be agile. Your personal bandwidth is quickly exceeded. In all cases, hiring the best people is likely more important than adding a few features to your solution. Every aspect of every product requires development, testing, manufacturing, marketing, and distribution.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 17, 2014
It’s tough for an elephant to be agile. Your personal bandwidth is quickly exceeded. In all cases, hiring the best people is likely more important than adding a few features to your solution. Every aspect of every product requires development, testing, manufacturing, marketing, and distribution.
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 9, 2020
Recruiting and hiring employees is challenging, if only because the stakes for making the right choice are so high. Say you had to replace a worker who had been hired only recently, since they turned out to be a poor cultural fit. On top of the normal difficulties of the hiring process, HR also has to deal with its high seasonality.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 24, 2017
Hire a CEO to Go Public. The VCs would hire a CEO with a track record who looked and acted like the type of CEO Wall Street bankers expected to see in large companies. The role of the independent member was typically to tell the founding CEO that the VCs were hiring a new CEO.). People had to actually pay you for your product.
Steve Blank
MAY 9, 2017
In this business environment, hiring a new CEO who had experience growing a company around a single technical innovation was a rational decision for venture investors. A company developing software would have to buy computers and license software from other companies and hire the staff to run and maintain it. That’s no longer the case.
Startup Lessons Learned
MARCH 25, 2010
It usually looks like this: the can-do attitude and high-bandwidth communication that characterized the first few iterations have produced magic. It usually looks like this: the can-do attitude and high-bandwidth communication that characterized the first few iterations have produced magic. Expo SF (May.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
424 
Let's personalize your content