Beck: Founders Should Prioritize Early Hires by Auditing Time-Consuming Tasks
Pia Beck · The 3 Things She Gives Her Team That Nobody Ever Gave Her · Mar 12, 2021 · at 9:11
Pia Beck, CEO of Curate Well Co, explains her framework for how early-stage startup founders should identify which initial roles to hire.
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“What's been really helpful for me and how I did this and what I recommend is to do an audit on how you're spending your time. What are the most time consuming tasks that you have in your role? And then analyzing those things. So is this something that I need to be doing? Is this the thing that I want to be spending this much time on? And which of these things that I'm spending this much time on could be handed off to somebody else, could be done better by somebody else potentially. And so identifying what are those main things that you spend your time on and then looking at, I would say the top like three to five and analyzing, do I need to do this? Like truthfully, is this something that I need to own for the success of this company? Or is this something that would be better handled by somebody else? And I would hire to fill like those specific needs.”
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