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One of the most exciting events for a startup is landing seed funding, which transforms a “2 dudes in a living room idea” into something with much more potential. I wanted to summarize a couple things that are relevant for this stage, learned from personal experiences and conversations with other entrepreneurs. This blog is targeted at startups who have raised their first $500k-1M of funding, which often leads to hiring 4-6 people – this first batch of folks is critical, of course. Here’s a quick outline of some of the things I’ve encountered: There are many more topics, of course, but this is a good start – let’s dig in: Hiring T-shaped people versus specialists One of the truisms in startupland is that everyone has to wear many hats – backend programmers might have to pitch in and do some feature work, designers might have to write some marketing copy, and the CEO might have to vaccuum the office ;-) Just as importantly, if you believe that startups are fundamentally undergoing a pro

Building the initial team for seed stage startups at andrewchen andrewchen --> Andrew Chen Archives Subscribe · Featured · Recent · The Cold Start Problem 📘 Dear readers, I have moved to Substack and I will be writing here from now on: 👉 andrewchen.substack.com In the meantime, I will leave andrewchen.com up for posterity. Enjoy! Building the initial team for seed stage startups 0 comments --> Seed funding and building out the initial team One of the most exciting events for a startup is landing seed funding, which transforms a “2 dudes in a living room idea”

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