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- 11 months of runway feels tight given market conditions have tightened; are you close to closing seed? - Does your 25% MoM growth translate to revenue? If so, be clear about that - Can your existing engineers refer friends they know? What you're experiencing is pretty typical of a pre-seed startup that's unknown right now
The three results/problems you listed, I think, are all related; - Cold outreach has low uptake anyway, especially if not targeted properly. People tend to largely just ignore or decline these kinds of messages. - People not looking for work confirms you're probably targeting the wrong people, especially on LinkedIn. - Job ads by design, will get a lot of responses. Filtering them out quickly and effectively is an ar…
The three results/problems you listed, I think, are all related; - Cold outreach has low uptake anyway, especially if not targeted properly. People tend to largely just ignore or decline these kinds of messages. - People not looking for work confirms you're probably targeting the wrong people, especially on LinkedIn. - Job ads by design, will get a lot of responses. Filtering them out quickly and effectively is an ar…
I originally thought it might be too early to rely on recruiters, but I will look into it!
A lot of the really good ones can add value in other ways as well; in the past I've had recruiters get us presenting at events without having to pay sponsor fees, free conference tickets and training vouchers for successful candidates, pre-baked employment contracts and other HR-ey documents you can use etc etc.
Startups aren't as cool anymore, people understand how the business works and the risks involved and (especially senior) people don't want to work in them. I think soon early stage startups will have to allocate a much larger pool of stock for employees (think 25-30%), low single digits won't cut it anymore.