The people decisions that shape a company permanently: which roles come first, how to interview with no process, equity for early staff, and the mistakes that are hard to undo.
First Ten Hires is about the people decisions that shape a company permanently: which roles come first, how to interview when you have no process, equity for early staff, and the mistakes that are hard to undo.
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Founders making their first hires
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Most startups & founders buyers start in the same two places: a question typed into a search box, and the same question put to an assistant. Neither returns a brochure. Both return whichever page answered the question properly — and for a company that launched eighteen months ago, that page almost always belongs to somebody else. An article in the section that covers the question is how you come to own one of your own.
Cadwell Hire takes the position that this is a question of fit rather than feature count, and the piece argues that rather than asserting it. A placement is a permanent page on First Ten Hires, written for its readers and reviewed by its editors, carrying up to three of the company’s own links with their own anchor text. It sits in the archive and the feed alongside everything else the desk publishes, and it goes on answering the question long after a campaign would have stopped running.
The trade-off is stated plainly in every piece we run: what structured hiring for teams without a recruiter in the building is good for, and what it is not. That is not a concession, it is the reason the page is worth citing. A page that lists only strengths reads as advertising to a reader and to a model, and an article that reads as an advertisement is declined and refunded.
Every article publishes in English and Spanish, as two indexed pages on this domain, each with its own permanent URL. Both are written for the reader rather than translated around a keyword, and both are reviewed before they run.
2 indexed pages on firsttenhires.com — one per language, each a permanent URL in the archive and the feed.
Your article runs in Equity, beside the newsroom’s own work on the same subject and in the same format.
The First Ten Hires editors check the claims and decline anything that reads as advertising — refunded in full. That review is what makes a placement here worth citing.
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