Help! Who Should My First Software Startup Hire Be?!

With Jeff Francis | Founder of ENO8

Who Should Your First Software Startup Hire When You’re Building A Software Product?

In this episode of ENO8 Answers, we dive deep into the crucial decision every early-stage software startup faces: Who should be your first in-house hire?

Follow this advice and you’ll be one step closer to becoming a “unicorn.”

And It’s Not Even the Most Expensive Hire You’ll Make (cue the applause)

We have an uncommon recommendation for most of our software startup clients — a product owner.

Not a developer, not an architect, not a CTO, but rather a product owner (not to say those other positions aren’t crucial… you just don’t need them in-house at the start). Find out why a product owner is pivotal as your first hire.

Once you know this, you’ll save yourself the enormous salary burdens of less-effective hires — a lesson many failed software startup founders wish they had known! To build successful software, startups need high-quality contributors who know how to design a product that users will love because it actually solves their problems and how to develop a roadmap for building it. However, there are misconceptions among inexperienced software startup founders about who is actually equipped to deliver that.

This episode of ENO8 Answers demystifies all of that and equips founders to make a strategic first hire. Check it out!