5 Common Hiring Mistakes to Avoid at Your Startup

The wash-up is there are plenty of folks that were mediocre at Dropbox, Salesforce, Google, Box. There are plenty of folks that were actually pretty bad sales managers, and they all need a job because they got fired. You can attract one of them to your startup, and they will know the lingo, they will know the acronyms, they will know the vernacular, they will talk your ear off, but they won't have two great people that can join them, and they won't make it, right? And many of you will make that mistake. Many founders will say, you know what, I'm so attracted to the logo, I'm going to hire the wash-out, and it won't work, and you'll either figure that out in one sales cycle, Or you'll burn through a lot of time and you'll figure it out in 9 months, but you'll figure out that the wash-up doesn't work.