Success is a team effort

Startups can feel pressure to grow quickly. But this pressure to get big fast often leads to poor decision-making.

At the top of that list of mistakes is rushing into hiring a team. Young companies have so much on their plate that they can easily overlook the process, but hiring a bad team can run your business into the ground.

Studies show that, for high-level positions requiring advanced education, hiring and training a new employee can cost you twice as much as their annual salary. In other words, an engineer earning $100,000 per year could actually cost you $200,000. Worse, at lower levels, that cost can easily revolve around 6 to 9 times.

Identifying the areas where you need the most support is therefore crucial to your success. When hiring a full-time employee, you have to make sure the candidate has the required skills, but also ensure he fits you and the culture you want to create. Even with talent, a bad cultural fit can be highly damaging, as it affects overall productivity and impacts the rest of your troops.

Instead of rushing into hiring a full-time employee, a good alternative is to seek experienced and talented contractors. For entrepreneurs with a vision but lacking the expertise, employing freelance talent offers significant advantages.

It allows you to:
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• Expand your hiring reach: Freelancers who work remotely enable you to hire the best person for the job, not the best person based in your area.
  

• Save time and money: An experienced freelancer doesn’t require as much training, and can therefore, hit the ground running.
  

• Get different perspectives: Freelancers can provide a fresh, outsider’s perspective and challenge your assumptions on subjects you may be overlooking.
  

• Scale your operations: Hiring outside work improves your workforce without increasing your costs, as only paying for the hours you need avoids wasted time and increases productivity.

So, like with everything else, when it comes to hiring a team – IDEAOLOGY it!

Using the IDEAOLOGY Launchpad, get access to an amazing pool of talent ready to take your business to the next level. Developers, freelancers and designers from all over the world offer their skills, resources, templates and practices to help you get started. On top of guidance and expertise, you’ll also get the luxury of our community feedback to review, test and validate your idea, all in one place!

With a huge selection of talent in every field, there’s nothing you need that you won’t find. When you’ve found your fit, hire someone for the long-term and start creating the foundations of your dream.

Because you should never rush into a relationship, IDEAOLOGY it!