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Linda Xie
@linda
Re: "why don't you hire someone to do X" comments for Bountycaster, in my opinion: - being resource constrained with 2 people forces us to work on the highest priority items. Easy to fall into having people work on random stuff just because you can - hiring more people creates more work too (recruiting, managing, etc) - we're bootstrapped, hiring people requires more funding. This is also more work and changes dynamics (fundraising, managing investors, etc) - we want our team size / burn to be in line with the market opportunity right now and we don't feel it's justified yet to hire more - one of the highest ROI things a founder can be doing early on is being constantly in touch with users, not something I want to be delegating away at our stage
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Just Build
@justbuild
Exactly, the moment you hire beyond your founding group you add HR, management, and additional fundraising to your task list each day. That's a huge drag on your productivity, especially at the early stages. You need to be generating enough profit to absorb that, let alone the risk of it being a bad hire, which can destroy the company this early in its lifecycle. Keep truckin Linda. 💛
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