5 Ways to Hire the Best Talent for Your Startup Team

Today’s startups need the best possible talent on the planet. Great people are out there. Its up to the startup leadership to find them — or, to put it more clearly, to attract them. How do you do this? Here are 5 tips that will help you gain the best talent in the industry to grow your startup from zero to awesome. 1. Embrace remote. I had with this conversation with an entrepreneur recently: Me:  “You need to hire the best UX designer you know.” Entrepreneur:  “Yeah, but he lives in Israel.” Me:  “It doesn’t matter.” Whatever your philosophy on remote work, you’ve got to learn to accept it as today’s reality. If you want to hire the best talent, you can’t expect them to uproot, sell their apartment, move families and pets, and situate themselves into a new place. If you’re in a place where you have a huge local talent pool, then good for you. But for most of us, that’s not the case. We know a kick-ass designer in New York, a PPC wizard in Denver, and a SEO in Dubai. Moving these people is expensive, time-consuming, and completely unnecessary. Remote work is the way that people do things these days. When you hire remote, make sure that your remote workers can handle the ability to remote work. The best indication that someone is a good remote worker is if she or he has done it successfully before. Here are the four standout qualities of a great remote worker: