4 Hiring Tips for Your Lean Startup

Theres a ton do when youre first starting a company. Each co-founder or employee executes several job descriptions jumbled together, and it seems a simple solution to just hire a new person and delegate away responsibilities, never to be worried about again. This becomes especially relevant post-funding, because it suddenly becomes plausible to hire with the intended result of getting more done faster.

But this isn't necessarily true, according to Eric Ries, creator of the Lean Startup methodology. As you add people to a team or project, there is an increase in communications overhead that makes everyone slightly less productive, he explains.

It may seem counterintuitive…
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