Don’t hire friends, but hire friends of friends. […] While you can get away with hiring friends at a VC backed startup — the larger team will help the person blend in — a smaller, bootstrapped team ideally has one level of separation. Friends have a tendency to be distracting and to be more difficult to direct. Also, hiring a friend makes for a tricky situation if you have to fire them.
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bits and pieces of (almost) daily internet boredom in the life of Dan Braghis, webtimizer and developer, Drupalista and passionate beer drinker.
