Guy Kawasaki presents a concise 60-second lesson on hiring for startups: (1) prioritize hiring people who are stronger than you to build a great company; (2) if you cannot attract stronger hires due to constraints, focus on developing and improving existing team members through coaching and training.
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Two key points for entrepreneurs founders hiring Key point number one is always hire better than yourself A players hire A plus players if you're a B player you you hire a C player a C player hires a D player pretty soon you're surrounded by Z players so great entrepreneurs, great leaders hire better themselves because they're secure they want a great company they don't want to be the best person in the company Second thing is sometimes because of your lack of capital, your lack of brand awareness because of competition you can't hire people who are obviously better or prov better but then your role is to make people better make people better encourage them, give them training show them the way so that when you end up you end up with a person who's better than you so try to hire people who are better than you and if you can't do that then take it as a given that you have to make people better two key principles for entrepreneurial hiring it.