How do you scale and grow your startup?
Resources on growing and scaling
On managing people and hiring
There is a right way to do job interviews - and it is important to get it right, since bad interviews have been found to be worse than no interviews at all. This is a great overview on how to do it.
From the perspective of the entrepreneur, this is a good guide to designing compensation systems. I also like this guide to dividing equity. Here is a nice diagram showing how equity evolves over the course of a startup.If you are thinking about joining a startup, make sure you are doing it for th e right reason, since you aren’t likely to get rich.
You will need employees to sign an NDA and an agreement to assign IP. Here are some nice template legal documents are available from the Business Journal.
On scaling and strategy
As an overview of the scaling research, this paper is quite good (but may require a library to access). An alternative is this article talking to lots of experts and founders about the pitfalls of scaling.
Here are the epic notes on designing company strategy by Kevin Boudreau.