8 Hiring Mistakes Startups Must Avoid

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Benjamin Friedman
November 19, 2024

Morning beehiivcommunity! This newsletter turns experience into lessons you can apply to your startup. As a growth partner for visionary founders, we help sharpen leadership skills and unlock growth potential.

8 Recruiting Pitfalls to Dodge

"Only hire people who are better than you." – Laszlo Bock

Small teams require every member to contribute value. 

Are you struggling to build your dream team? 

This week’s post covers eight common problems you may face when hiring and solutions for each. As a startup, your next hire can determine the difference between stagnation and hypergrowth. Don’t make these mistakes.

Boosting Creativity & Productivity Across Generations

Each generation brings its behaviors, attitudes, and expectations to an already complex work environment. Occasionally, this mixture will cause some confusion and friction. Yet, there are ways to embrace and leverage these differences for more effective collaboration.

On December 3rd, you will learn how to better engage employees and stakeholders across four generations. This panel will share insights on improving retention, creativity, productivity, and satisfaction across all ages of your staff.

Organized by Build Scale Grow, join us in NYC by registering here.

Expert Tips for Startups
Quick, valuable insights from accomplished founders

12 Questions About Management You Can’t Ignore

As a founder, your mind races with new ideas, strategies, and challenges. However, amid this chaos, are you overlooking the cornerstone of your future success—your team?

Gallup's Q¹² Survey provides 12 straightforward yet impactful questions to gauge management effectiveness. Grounded in extensive research and data, these questions quickly and effectively address key aspects of employee engagement and job satisfaction.

Special thanks to Pratap Mukherjee, the CEO of Flywheel Management, for inspiring this topic. You will find the full post here and The Gallup Q12 is here.

How We Can Help

Over 90% of startups fail.

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We do this with holistic planning to build new teams, systems, and functions like Revenue Operations and Customer Success to drive rapid growth.

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