How do you find the first hires for your startup, especially remotely?

I think you should give AngelList a try. We've used it for recruiting both engineers and business development and we're very happy with the hires we made. The candidates were motivated and highly skilled and it's great that the platform forced them to submit a short letter of intent because it allowed us to easily filter out the ones that wouldn't work

This is not about remotely hiring, this is about ability to trust easily and need for comfort with the person in my humble opinion. Agree @benoit_chambon ?

Online communities and book clubs are my best advisor for that kind a purpose. You can clearly learn anyone deeply if she/he fits your company's culture. Passion is hard to find, keep digging it :)

LinkedIn is great way to hire, also if you are looking for coders , github is another place

We have 2 founders and 3 engineers on our team. Here is how we found the engineers -1 through toptal.com, 1 I had done some work with in the past and 1 reached out to me on Slack after we did our beta lunch. All 3 have been great hires and we have a long future together. Finding talent through a "staffing" company like Toptal was really nice, but now bringing the talent in full time is not cheap. Any ideas on how to minimize fee's for contract to hire? P.S. We are all remote.

We use a product called intervue.io It helps us screen candidates and it even has code editor with around 30 or so languages if you wanna hire a techie

Best way is to actually go to cafes and meet and talk to people. Made some of my best hires from referrals through people i met while remotely working at a cafe!

At TechHut I am guiding 50+ students to become a Full Stack Developer. They will learn MERN Stack and will get experience working on a live product. I am prepared to have multiple internship structures for organisations so that they will get curated candidates for the open positions.

I am here to get ideas because I want to start hiring some remote guys to help around. I hope this discussion will help me with that.

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