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Comment on Ask HN: As a first-time solopreneur how would you go about hiring the first team

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Assuming that I don't know anything about or have zero experience in the skill-sets I am hiring for

My guess is that you need a co-founder that can fill the gap instead of employees.

Then he won't be a solo-preneur anymore.

It seems like hiring people is much less risky than marrying them.

There is very little context but, in my opinion, you can't be a "solo *tech* founder" without some technical skill. You can improvise a sales or marketing person for some time, but no way you could improvise a devops or security engineer. You need a "CTO" otherwise you will fail, 99.9% guaranteed.

Your cofounder doesn't need to own 50% of the shares, you can still act like a "solo-preneur" but you need people fully committed to the success of your adventure.

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