Entrepreneur Agony Aunt Podcast
Business:Entrepreneurship
It’s been a while! I have been busy getting Vistalworks - my startup number 5 - off the ground and I know you know how all consuming that job is. But we’re 9 months in, the first version of the technology is live, I have an amazing team - and you’re questions keep coming (as do mine!) So it felt like the right time to record another 10 Entrepreneur Agony Aunt episodes, the first of 2019, starting with this one.
Building successful teams, and attracting, rewarding and retaining talent is the most requested topic on this podcast - even more so than funding - and in this episode we explore hiring interns and your first junior staff.
My guest is Joy Lewis, CEO of Adopt An Intern. AAI has just placed their 1500th candidate into paid work and in Scotland is the go-to choice for startups making their first hires. Supporting startups and socially-driven organisations to find the right candidates is in their DNA - I use them for my junior hires and I can’t recommend them and the talent they have helped us find highly enough.
Joy Lewis founded Adopt An Intern in 2009 and ran it as a programme within the Centre for Scottish Public Policy until 2012 when she it spun out to become a not-for-profit company. Since then AAI has widened their message of inclusive employment beyond internships to permanent positions and various social impact projects, including breaking down barriers for disabled graduates, women returners and Scotland’s growing minority ethnic population, promoting equality of opportunity in the UK job market.
In the episode we discuss:
- How to think about and prepare for your first hires
- What a good brief of candidate requirements looks like
- Why pay matters and what fair looks like in a cash strapped startup
- What does diversity and equality of opportunity mean, how do you create it, and why does diversity matter so much in a startup?
- Interviewing inexperienced staff, when you’re not necessarily that experienced yourself
- What next once you've found your intern/hire if you've never managed people before
- Tips to help more experienced founders build productive teams
Pay yourself and how to fund your startup in desperate times
Working in startups: what potential employees and their bosses need to know
Everything co-founders and how to start a tech company as a non-technical founder
Teams and hiring: how to find, attract and compensate startup employees with Kirsty Mackenzie
Accidental entrepreneurs, redundancy and building a new network with Jo Swinson
How to survive the inflection points that all startups face as they scale with Mark Logan
Customer development and market validation with Wendy Lea
How to cope with an involuntary pause TEDx talk
Flexible working in practice and at scale with Dana Denis Smith
Founder focus and the MVP trap with Mark Logan
Making a multi site office culture work and delivering 10X solutions with Tom Adeyoola
How to nail your Q and A to secure funding with Edge Fund CEO Evelyn McDonald
Telling good advice from bad, who to trust and why a maybe is really a no with Leah Hutcheon
Sales in startups: how, why and when to hire a pro with Jim Sterne
Equity investment as fuel and why female founders must ask for more money
Exposing your idea, validation and embracing vulnerability with Joel Blake OBE
Hyperfocus, urgency and founding for scale with Dennis Mortensen of x.ai
Social impact and how entrepreneurship beats charitable aid with Kate Webb
Funding for Startups Who Aren't Unicorns with Anne Ravanona
Board tensions, risk and good governance with Dean Nash
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