Agile Architecture Founder Hiring 
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 20, 2010
This post is designed mostly for non-technical founders. Your deepest thinkers on technology architecture are seldom good team leaders. You still have some leeway to hire above them if need be. But for non-technical founders let me offer you a definition that you can use when you build a team. Most often they are not.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
OCTOBER 4, 2017
Idealistic founders believe they will break the mold when they scale, and not turn into a “typical big company.” And if that person leaves, you’ve just lost six months to hire and get back up to speed on that thing. Or it’s fatal because that was a co-founder. A team of one is brittle, but fast.
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Steve Blank
JANUARY 25, 2011
The benefits of customer and agile development and minimum features set are continuous customer feedback, rapid iteration and little wasted code. Ironically it becomes the antithesis of agile. He hired an operating exec as the CEO a few years ago. It Seems Logical.
Version One Ventures
SEPTEMBER 30, 2013
I recently spoke with a founder and CEO of a start-up that had just crossed the 200-employee milestone. For this reason, you need to hire the absolute best people you can get for managerial positions. Facebook has created a culture of agility with a philosophy to “move fast and break things.”
mashable.com
MAY 9, 2011
Hiring the wrong person for key company positions can cost a business thousands — or tens of thousands — of dollars and man hours. This is especially true when it comes to tech companies hiring the wrong chief technology officer. Hire someone well-versed in communication between developers, customers and team members.
Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 30, 2009
Hire the absolute best and the brightest, true experts in their fields, who in turn can hire the smartest people possible to staff their departments. By hiring experts, conducting lots of focus groups, and executing to a detailed plan, the company became deluded that it knew what customers wanted. Once again, a fantastic post.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?" If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? Thats more than just drawing architecture diagrams, though. I always assumed I wouldnt manage anybody.
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