People & Culture Toolkit
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Featured Posts
This new hire onboarding template is designed to help you create a successful first day for every new hire at your company.
5 Tips for Non-Tech Founders Hiring Technical Staff
How do you vet and hire someone to do a job that you yourself don’t know how to do? Paul Bilodeau explains that technical hiring is one area of business where “trusting your gut” just might not be enough.
Talent Scorecard: Setting Employees up for Success & Creating Alignment
Melanie Kruger shares a guide on how to create alignment with new employees from day one and set them up for long term success with your company.
People Ops Basics
People Ops Question: When and How Do We Hire Our First “People Ops” person?
Sabrina Kelly, Techstars VP of Talent and former VP of People Ops, answers your People Ops questions.
Building a Compensation Philosophy
Sabrina Kelly helps you understand why setting a compensation philosophy allows for transparency and increased trust with your employees.
Missed the Compensation AMA? Here Are Our Top 3 Takeaways
An interview with Katelyn Dennis from Advanced HR on how founders can leverage the Venture Capital Executive Compensation Survey data to optimize their compensation strategy.
Beyond Benchmarking: A Guide to Structuring Compensation
A Techstars Talent interview with Katelyn Dennis, Head of Customer Success at Advanced-HR, explaining the importance of creating a plan for paying your people fairly.
Recruiting and Hiring
4 Rules for Hiring Executive Talent: Janet Bannister Knows How to Recruit Your C-Suite
Your network is your best source of great talent. But you have to know how to find it.
5 Ways to Hack Your Network to Hire: Fletcher Richman Will Transform How You Recruit
Your network is your best source of great talent. But you have to know how to find it.
Finding an untapped talent pool can be the secret to your hiring success.
Using Behavioral Interviewing to Hire
Jay Batson walks through how to modify your hiring process to make the right hires consistently.
When Does It Make Sense to Use a Search Firm?
Advice from Techstars on when a search firm can help you hire.
9 Ways to Add Structure to Your Interview Process
Your interview process needs structure! Read these 9 tips that tell you how to add structure to an often unstructured process. Plus, access our library of sample questions for behavioral interviewing.
The Top 5 Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring and How to Solve Them
Techstars Talent hosted a workshop with Nick Cromydas, CEO and co-founder of Hunt Club, to talk about the top five mistakes founders make when hiring and how to solve them.
5 Tips for Non-Tech Founders Hiring Technical Staff
Paul Bilodeau explains that technical hiring is one area of business where “trusting your gut” just might not be enough.
Culture
Start with Culture: Pranav Ahuja Explains How—and Why—to Build a Company Culture
How to build your company culture—and why you should do so right from the start.
Culture and Hiring 101: Define Your Values Before You Start Hiring
Sabrina Kelly’s three tips to successfully find, interview and hire your first employees.
An Interview with Jason Thompson and Andrea Perdomo on how to build a diverse team from the ground floor.
10 of our Favorite Books on Management, Culture, and Leadership
We asked the Techstars community for “the best entrepreneurial leadership and management books they’ve ever read” and now we’re passing those recommendations on to you!
Leadership and Management
Trust Across Timezones: Sabrina Kelly on Building and Managing Distributed Teams
The pros, the cons, and the best practices for building a distributed team.
Managing Communication Tools in Distributed Companies
David Cohen explains that understanding how you and your team communicate can be critical to your success — especially as a distributed company.
How to Run an End-of-Year Reflection for Your Organization
Trevor Boehm and Reagan Pugh explain why taking time to reflect on the year is the most powerful thing your team can do right now — and how to do it.
Templates
Techstars Talent helps you learn the basics of sourcing the best talent.
How to close an offer and welcome candidates to your company.
Techstars Talent shares how, and why, to track changes at your scaling startup.
Talent Scorecard: Setting Employees up for Success & Creating Alignment
Melanie Kruger shares a guide on how to create alignment with new employees from day one and set them up for long term success with your company.
This new hire onboarding template is designed to help you create a successful first day for every new hire at your company.
