The 7 hires a hardware startup needs to get right: 1. Manufacturing: the talent is in bottling plan...
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硬件初创公司必须精准招聘制造、供应链、财务等7类关键岗位，错误招聘将导致优秀产品无法落地。
核心要点
- 制造岗位应寻找瓶装厂和注射器工厂经验者，而非依赖传统职位名称
- 财务负责人首任应是控制器而非CFO，确保早期财务基础建设
- 营销需直面技术难点，诚实筛选能处理复杂问题的候选人
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- 硬件初创关键招聘
- 制造
- 瓶装厂/医疗设备经验
- 供应链
- 第五层级供应商风险
- 财务
- 控制器优先于CFO
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制造人才应寻找瓶装厂和注射器工厂经验，而非依赖传统职位名称
供应链中断往往由未被检查的第五层级供应商引发
营销需直面技术难点，诚实筛选能处理复杂问题的候选人
a16z on X: "The 7 hires a hardware startup needs to get right: 1. Manufacturing: the talent is in bottling plants and syringe factories, seek analogs instead of job titles 2. Deployments: hire when you can see ten deployments coming, not after one goes badly 3. Supply Chain: the supplier" / X
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The 7 hires a hardware startup needs to get right: 1. Manufacturing: the talent is in bottling plants and syringe factories, seek analogs instead of job titles 2. Deployments: hire when you can see ten deployments coming, not after one goes badly 3. Supply Chain: the supplier that stops your line is the tier-five one nobody checked 4. Finance: your first hire is a controller, not a CFO 5. Sales: founders own it until they understand why it works 6. Policy: technical enough to understand the product, DC enough to know how to present it 7. Marketing: lead with the hard parts, honesty filters out the hires you don't want "Get these hires wrong and a remarkable product stalls out. Get them right and the rest of the company compounds." Full piece from
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