Operations
The job description that gets your first hire right
How founders write a first-hire job description that works: defining the real role, being honest about stage and scope, and screening for the person a small team actually needs.
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Founders
Lebanese remote teams building for US startups
The Lebanese collapse created a dollarized remote-work pattern serving US startups. Here is the arbitrage math, the contractor-EOR-subsidiary choice, and the question of whether
Money
Equity for early employees in non-VC companies
Why the standard option grant fails outside the VC model, and how revenue share, profit-sharing, and phantom equity actually work, with real structures from 37signals and Calm
Operations
The 30-day onboarding plan: patterns from public playbooks
Public onboarding playbooks converge on a four-week structure: context, then a small ship, then real work, then review. Here is the pattern and how it scales down.
Operations
The first regrettable hire: a pattern study
Founders' first regrettable hire follows a predictable shape. A pattern study drawn from startup literature and founder interviews.
Operations
How to hire your first ten people without a recruiter
A practical guide to making your first ten hires as a founder — no recruiter, no HR department, no budget for either. Includes MENA-specific notes on pay and sourcing.