Startups need to be more rigorous about compliance during the recruitment process to ensure they don’t hire misfits, according to a panel of experts at the Silicon Valley Comes To Tech City event.
In a session chaired by LinkedIn’s former managing director and angel investor Kevin Eyres, founder of Buysight Shaukat Shamim, Threadless CEO Thomas Ryan, Nancy Lublin, CEO of Do Something and Greylock’s Data Scientist in Residence DJ Patil discussed how to grow your business through the first 10 hires and beyond.
“It’s critical to understand what your team’s like. Are you going to be the badass team? Or the super geeky team? What type of chemistry do you want to have? What’s your interaction like?” said Patil. He outlined a ticklist of three things that the right candidates needed to have: they need to be someone who the founders would like to do a startup with, someone who can “knock the socks off” the company within 90 days and someone who is likely to be “doing something amazing” in four to six years, examples of which could be solving the next big social cause or building the next LinkedIn. via Wired
November 21, 2011
