Hiring For A Company

15 LESSONS

WATCH

These are videos clips taken from actual Draper Univerisity lectures. You can learn about entrepreneurship directly from founders, VCs, execs, lawyers, and more.

We’ve cut them up into short, easy clips for you. If you’d like to access the full lectures you’ll need to upgrade to a Superhero Membership.

Make Yourself Irrelevant- Jeff Seibert

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CHALLENGE

Learn by doing”. These are a list of activities that we’ve come up with to help you practice your entrepreneurial skills. Many of these are again, actual activities that we have students do at Draper Univeristy, designed to push you outside of your comfort zone.

Absolutely feel free to post your progress or results and share with students so we can give you feedback!

In a group/club/hobby you belong to, stop doing any wor...

Create 3 different creative salary packages that you th...

Talk to a friend as if you were going to hire them to w...

Many startups employ developers around the world due to...

Running a good team is not just about knowing how to at...

DISCUSSION

We’ve come up with some discussion questions and topics to help you start thinking in the right direction about startups.

Share your ideas and thoughts with other students. Keep an eye out for Draper U Alumni, mentors, and staff! We’ll come on regularly to give feedback, and share our own insights.

Think about the differences between what co-founders, a...

After what milestone would you create a dedicated HR de...

When you hire normal employees, do you plan to attract ...

How do you feel about the new Silicon Valley championed...

READING

We’ve pulled together a collection of books and articles for you to supplement your learning. These are the same recommendations we give to students here at DU, we hope you find them just as helpful!

We Don’t Pay You to Work Here: How to align incentives ...

What Does a COO Actually Do? https://medium.com/@sparks...

Finding your “Lime Metric” http://techcrunch.com/2015/0...

TOOLS

Starting a company is hard enough on your own, everyone needs a little help. These are tools and servies already built by other entrepreneurs we think would help you get closer to your goals.

We’ve tried to mostly find free to use tools, but some software may require a purchase.

Linkedin Premium helps you hire more people and find mo...

Buffer explains how they structure their company salari...

INFORMATION

Now that your company has grown, you’ll need to keep a tight eye on the employees working for you, and make sure you lead them effectively.