Team & Culture
Hire, lead, and build a great founding team
Learn how to find a co-founder, make your first hires, structure equity, set OKRs, manage remote teams, and build a culture that attracts and retains the people who will determine your outcome.
How to find, evaluate, and lock in the right co-founder - where to look, what to test for, and the conversations you must have before signing anything.
A step-by-step guide to running 1:1 meetings that build trust, surface blockers, and help you develop every person on your team.
Radical Candor is Kim Scott's management framework that combines caring personally for people with challenging them directly and honestly.
Culture isn't ping-pong tables - it's what behaviors get rewarded and punished. Here's how founders actually build it.
A PIP is a formal document that outlines an employee's performance gaps and sets a time-bound plan to correct them before termination.
Learn how to create a fair, transparent compensation framework that helps you hire, retain, and build trust across your startup team.
A practical guide to hiring your first employees - how to define the roles, run the process, set comp, and avoid the mistakes that derail early teams.
A practical guide to running quarterly performance reviews at an early-stage startup—without the overhead that makes traditional annual reviews useless.
A step-by-step guide to building a repeatable, structured hiring process—from job spec to signed offer—that reduces bias and bad hires.
Situational Leadership teaches managers to adapt their style - directing, coaching, supporting, or delegating - based on each employee's needs.
Remote is the default for software startups in 2025. Here's how to build culture, hire globally, and run operations across time zones.