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Building the initial team for seed stage startups

One of the most exciting events for a startup is landing seed funding, which transforms a "2 dudes in a living room idea" into something with much more potential. I wanted to summarize a couple things that are relevant for this stage, learned from personal experiences and conversations with other entrepreneurs. This blog is targeted at startups who have raised their first $500k-1M of funding, which often leads to hiring 4-6 people - this first batch of folks is critical, of course.

Here's a quick outline of some of the things I've encountered:

- Hiring T-shaped people versus specialists
- Try to get doers
- More candidate flow solves a lot of problems
- Interview for the actual work you'll be doing, not skillset trivia
- Raw intelligence is just one factor - don't overestimate it

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