Founding Team and Early Hiring
Building the people side of a startup, where most failures actually originate. Covers choosing co-founders and structuring the founding agreement, equity splits and vesting, when and who to hire first, hiring well with no brand and no budget, and building culture deliberately.
- Modules
- 7
- Max students
- 20
- Language
- EN
What it usually covers
- 1
Orientation to Startup People Architecture
- Navigating Early People Debt
- Mapping the Early Stage Talent Journey
- Designing Early Compensation Frameworks
- Deciding Between Contractors and Full-Time Hires
- 2
The Founding Team
- Choosing Co-founders
- Equity, Roles and the Founders’ Agreement
- Protecting Assets via IP Assignment and Restraints
- Structuring Vesting, Acceleration, and Cliffs
- Handling Co-founder Offboarding and Buybacks
- 3
Legal and Equity Structuring for Hires
- Sizing and Allocating the Option Pool
- Grant Mechanics, Strike Prices, and Exercise Windows
- Calibrating Risk Profiles for Early Hires
- Defining IP and Non-Disclosure Protocols for Staff
- 4
Early Hiring
- When and Who to Hire
- Hiring Well Without a Brand or a Budget
- Outbound Sourcing Strategies for Bootstrappers
- Scoping Generalists Versus Deep Specialists
- Auditing Candidates via In-Depth Backchannel References
- 5
Evaluation, Testing, and Selection
- Designing Practical Work Sample Tests
- Running Standardised Structured Interviews
- Evaluating Culture Addition Over Homophily
- Closing the Offer and Overcoming Hesitations
- 6
Building the Team
- Culture and Ways of Working
- Managing and Growing the Team
- Building 30-60-90 Day Early Onboarding Frameworks
- Operating Asynchronous Team Communication Rhythms
- Managing and Offboarding Misaligned Hires Fast
- 7
Consolidating People Architecture and Scaling
- Resolving Critical Founder Fault Lines
- Navigating the 10-to-30 Headcount Chasm
- Auditing Team Health and Culture Retention
- Developing Your People Operating Playbook
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