Advice From a Startup Founder for Hiring Employees

When you start a new company, your team is one of the most important parts of your company's success.A good team will take your company to new heights, while a bad one will quickly end your business. advice from a Founder as he reflects on his experiences.

It is very important to gauge whether your first few employees are in it for the long haul, or if they are there to try to make a quick buck. These are the type of people you want to go to war with. Then there are people who only care about trying to make a quick buck and you want to stay away from them.They will poison your culture and affect every part of your business.

Your team's motivations shape their thinking and everything they do, from their strategies to their decision making.If you hire people with bad attitudes and short sighted motivation, it Your business is only as good as your team can execute and it starts at the top. will poison your company's culture and that will be very hard to recover from.

Hire people who are smarter than you and listen to them.It may be scary and intimidating, but you want the best people you can find in your business.Everybody brings a different valuable set of skills to the table, and sometimes you will not be the best person for every job, but that's okay because you made the right decision in hiring the person who is smarter than you for the task.

Special thanks to Nick Jiang, founder and CEO of Birdnest Inc. for providing his insight into this subject.