Human Resources
8 articles
- Building the Founding Team: Who Do You Need Beside You, and When?A guide to building a founding team — required composition, dividing roles, when you need a co-founder, and how first hires differ from partnership.
- Founder Alignment: The Conversations That Must Precede PartnershipHow to verify alignment with a co-founder before committing — ambition and time horizon, working style, values, warning signs of misalignment, and how to address them.
- Hiring: Building an Effective Process in a Small CompanyA practical guide to the hiring process in startups — defining the role, sourcing candidates, designing interviews, making the offer, and onboarding.
- Talent Selection Criteria: On What Basis Do You Decide?A guide to talent selection criteria in startups — the scorecard, four core criteria, stage fit, true versus misleading signals, and reducing bias.
- Company Culture: How It Is Built and Preserved Through GrowthA guide to building startup culture — defining values as behaviours, the mechanisms that embed them, what breaks during growth, and how culture is measured.
- Incentives and Employee Share Plans (ESOP)A guide to designing compensation and employee share plans in startups — pool size, vesting, dilution, and how to explain a grant to the person receiving it.
- Performance Management: Setting Goals and Reviewing Them FairlyA guide to performance management in startups — setting goals, continuous feedback, periodic reviews, addressing underperformance, and retaining talent.
- Labour Regulations: Your Core Obligations Toward EmployeesA guide to labour obligations for startups in Saudi Arabia — contracts, wages, working hours and leave, end of service, Saudisation, and remote work.
