I had to let go of someone at work. While she wasn’t a full-time employee, it was still something that I didn’t enjoy doing at all. Only a week ago, I had shared the big picture of our business with her. And she was excited to be on this journey along with the rest of…
Work Remotely or Together? That’s the wrong question.
San Francisco. It’s 11 AM on Monday. The office is buzzing with activity. People sitting in halls plugging away at their computers. Animated discussions happening in meeting rooms. Everyone is visibly busy doing their thing. Right? Nope. At the office of Automattic – the company that makes and ships WordPress and employs over 250 people…
Hiring the first 5-10 employees at your startup
Abhi, a friend of mine, and his brother run an early-stage consulting company out of the UK. Here’s an email he sent me recently: “How do you synchronize your capacity with your sales? It feels like a chicken and egg problem, no capacity means no sales, and no sales would mean that I cannot afford/sustain…