Hiring Pre-Money Valuation Restful Seed Money 
www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
One of the best tricks I learned during our startup was a rule for deciding who to hire. You could sense them squirming on the hook, but you knew there would be no rest for them till theyd signed up. And when businesspeople try to hire hackers, they cant tell which ones are good.Even other hackers have a hard time doing that.
This is going to be BIG.
SEPTEMBER 7, 2012
I think I'm terrific at helping early stage teams by rolling up my sleeves and doing what's necessary--getting them hires, PR, product strategy help to find that market fit. If you're doing seed deals, how often does a down round in a seed deal even happen? Down from what?
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