The Most Common Mistakes Made By Startups Throughout The Hiring Process
In the venture capital industry, we talk a lot about the importance of the founding team. But we might underestimate, especially in the early stages, something that might be as important as their drive, soft skills and strategic sophistication: their ability to recruit an A-class team. So I wondered, what are the best practices out there? I knew that I couldn’t find the golden formula, … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Willy Braun | Source: Medium | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Human Resources
Willy Braun, Laszlo Bock
Companies with sophisticated HR practices such as Google use […] a “combination of structured interviews with assessments of cognitive ability, conscientiousness and leadership.” At Google, their interview questions are build around four pillars: “general cognitive ability, leadership, googleyness and role-related knowledge”
Content: Quotation | Authors: Laszlo Bock, Willy Braun | Source: Medium | Subject: Human Resources
The (Ultimate) Guide for Marketplace Analytics
There are not a lot of resources to help you build analytics marketplaces and other kind of networks. At daphni, we deeply believe in the platformization of the economy and look closely at these models. Several founders have asked us tips to structure their data-driven approach, so we’ve decided to publish a guide to help founders do it. We divided the guide in 2 parts: … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Willy Braun | Source: Medium | Subjects: Economics, Management, Strategy