When looking for hiring people for your startup, what is more important - skills or mindset?
Skills can be taught but not mindset. In fact, they (co-workers) will learn most of the skills they need after they have joined. So a learning mindset is more important.
They will need to cope up with ever-changing decisions and directions, so having patience and enthusiasm is necessary.
Degrees, marks, resume cannot tell you about the mindset. Often those are written by someone charges few buck a page to type. They are found at unusual places, finding it hard to fit-in and unsatisfied with what is.
They want more challenges, they are not hard to spot - just keep your eyes, ears and mind open.
You are reading a post that I wrote a long time back—at least 14 years ago.
Take it with a bag of salt.
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