Recruiting, recruiting, recruiting

I am wrapping up my team’s 18 month plan and without divulging too many details, the major focus of the next few months will be recruiting.

The past few months have shown that we need to do some major recruiting to properly scale. The team has been overworked the last few months and the numbers show this. Help is on the way as we have another all-star starting on Monday, but our goals and ambitions are going to require a lot more work to be done on the recruiting front.

I’ve heard that many startup founders and execs often do not carve out enough time to focus on recruiting. Unfortunately, I have fallen in this trap in the past few months as I was focused solely on driving revenue.

In order to get the revenue growth that we’re hoping for, I will need to spend much more time recruiting. I’m hoping to spend at least 25% of my time in the next few weeks recruiting.

It’s going to be a big challenge, but I’m excited for it.