Bandwidth Hiring Metrics 
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 17, 2020
Tends to hire helpers and not develop talent. Idea people are so bright that they don’t see the need to leverage the capabilities of others, or hire people smarter than they are in any given domain. When a major initiative is undertaken, they will anticipate the ripple of implications across the organization.
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.
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This is going to be BIG.
AUGUST 31, 2011
At a board meeting yesterday, a management team was talking about their hiring needs and some of the challenges they're having hiring great people. Here's a simple tip: track hiring analytics and assign them to someone. If you're not interviewing enough people, you're not going to be able to hire someone--simple as that.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 18, 2023
Tends to hire helpers and not develop talent. Idea people are so bright that they don’t see the need to leverage the capabilities of others, or hire people smarter than they are in any given domain. When a major initiative is undertaken, they will anticipate the ripple of implications across the organization.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
OCTOBER 17, 2011
As a preamble to the metrics, it’s useful to know what you’re measuring and why it’s vital. We had a spike in this metric in February at WP Engine when our Internet provider themselves had a datacenter-wide catastrophe which brought us down for twelve hours; of course not all spikes will have such obvious causes.
YoungUpstarts
DECEMBER 17, 2017
Hire people for whom this work is a calling. Truth be told, if you hire people for whom their work is a calling or who are on a mission to do great things, engagement in the work comes naturally. Your best bet: ask who wants to take on more or who has the bandwidth to do so now. Selection, Onboarding and Promotions.
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. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable Beware of Vanity Metrics For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? Everyone was in the flow; the team was hyper-productive.
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