It's an exciting time. You've closed a round of funding, and now you have the money you need to grow your startup into a full-fledged company. Do you hire ten engineers? Two product managers? What about QA? What about a UX expert?

Or maybe you're a VC who's just funded a great startup. The founders are hungry, smart and work their asses off to build and sell a great product. They've also never grown a company before. Are they going to be able to do that, while doing everything they were before?

Growing an engineering team is a complicated endeavor. If you do it right, you have more capacity to build great products while still running as lean as you can. If you do it wrong, you can slow your progress down, burning money the whole time.

Let Me Help

I've been on the front lines of growing an engineering team. I understand what can go wrong and how to steer around it.

Together we'll:

• Establish what you're trying to accomplish with your growth. Do you want to deliver your current product faster? Build a new product? Support a growing customer base?
• Build a hiring plan that supports those goals
• Train your team to source, screen, interview and then land the candidates you need, factoring in cultural fit. Or set you up with experts to help with any portion
• Structure your teams to prepare for the influx of talented new people
• Coach your existing leaders on the management and people skills they need to handle a growing team