Chapter 02 People
Selecting, Recruiting, and Onboarding the Team
Any successful startup founder or VC will tell you that the most important indicator of success, besides finding customer pain, is a great team.
That’s why as you make your way through the preparation phase, you should spend extra time selecting, recruiting, and onboarding team members.
Here are the roles to fill:
- New Venture Team (NVT) members form the founding team that will actually build the venture.
- New Venture Board (NVB) members are the senior executives who serve as the governing body for the new venture, your internal venture capitalists, if you will.
- Venture Factory ...
Get The Unicorn Within now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
