But it can pose challenges when it comes to building out your management team. One way to deal with these issues to hire part time executives. Part time execs work when: You hire in non-core areas : Finance is super important to any company, but it is not a core aspect of the company’s mission and vision. MORE >>

What worries me a bit is how often I read that startups should hire a developer / hands-on lead developer. understand the desire for hiring someone who is going to product product. ll address the specifics of what this Founder Developer Gap looks like below. How are we going to manage the product roadmap? MORE >>

This holistic view of product also impacts product management. Product managers (particularly in a startup where everyone wears lots of hats) should be involved in everything a company outputs. holistic view of product management means product managers aren’t responsible for one single metric. Engagement goes up. MORE >>

Standards arehigher; people are more sympathetic to what youre doing; the kindof people you want to hire want to live there; supporting industriesare there; the people you run into in chance meetings are in thesame business. They might accidentally hire someonebad, but its not going to kill the company. Want to start a startup? Maybe. MORE >>

But it has brought a common language and set of principles to how products are developed and brought to market that I think is just great. And to me there is one place where lean has no place: Hiring. To understand why hiring needs to be fat, not lean, lets first look at the core principles of lean startup. Fat Hiring. MORE >>