Every day is recruiting day at a startup

Steven Lurie is the founder of Team Builder Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that helps founders build world-class teams. Drawing from decades of experience scaling teams at tech start-ups, Steven shares proven ideas for successful recruiting and building high-quality teams. Listen to the episode to avoid common hiring mistakes founders make during early startup stages.

• Lack of consistent recruiting results to missed hiring plans, and consequently missed revenues
• Founders must reach beyond their personal networks to recruit talent to accelerate team building
• In the war for talent, treat every prospective hire as if they are the greatest person in the world, else they lose interest.
• A classic recruiting mistake is to hire slow and fire fast
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