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Don't hire people just to test them out then throw them away.

Some people have responsibilities if your going to fire someone quickly then you have just turned their life upside down now that they can't pay for rent, food, and other bills.

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I couldn't agree with your sentiment more. A great antidote to having to fire quickly, is to be better at hiring effectively (a task much easier said than done). Most of us at startups, being driven by younger people that have not had the chance to develop managerial experience, are very very bad at hiring and seeing indicators of what will make a potential employee a "good fit" (and by "good fit", I mean someone that can drive business goals, not the rampant issue I have seen of startups passing on an otherwise good candidate because they aren't a good "culture fit". Good business hiring shouldn't be a high school popularity contest).

We could all leave a lot less damage in our wake by investing some time into learning how to quickly identify good candidates.

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