Hiring is becoming a growth bottleneck for startups. It starts simple. Post a role. Interview. Hi...

Hiring is becoming a growth bottleneck for startups. It starts simple. Post a role. Interview. Hi...Hiring is becoming a growth bottleneck for startups. It starts simple. Post a role. Interview. Hi...

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Ty Croutch

• Jan 25

Hiring is becoming a growth bottleneck for startups.

It starts simple. Post a role. Interview. Hire. Then growth hits. Pipelines dry up. Agencies get expensive. Founders become the recruiting team.

I’ve spent 17+ years building recruiting systems for tech and government teams (Amazon, Microsoft, NASA, GovCon). One pattern repeats: Startups don’t need a full-time VP of Talent. But they do need the system one would build.

So I packaged it.

Startup Hiring Playbook Build a hiring engine in 30 days without a full-time VP of Talent.

Includes: • Intake templates • Interview frameworks • Scorecards • Sourcing pipelines • 30-day roadmap

30+ founders have grabbed it. Available for a limited time. Once closed, it won’t reopen.

Download: https://lnkd.in/gqUBzaUs

$99 one-time

#Startups #Hiring #Recruiting #CroutchAndAssociates

stwn andreans

• 7h

A simple onboarding flow from one of the tools I’ve been building lately.

Figma UI Design

Mohammad Rafat

• 1d

Startup Truth: The new era of Product Design Stop Building What Nobody Wants! Design is no longer just about execution, tools have automated most of that. The real craft now is product thinking: identifying the high-impact gaps and shaping the outcome.

Book a call: https://cal.com/mdrafat/15min 🔗 www.mdrafat.com Follow on X: www.x.com/mdrafat007

Product Design startup Figma

Mykola Malyhin

pro

• 17h

Product thinking is where design creates the most value.

Muhammad Ahmad

• 15h

A non-technical founder in the UK had an idea. No code. No team. No technical co-founder. Just a clear vision of connecting students with the right tutors online. I built it. Here is what that actually looked like. The platform is called Schuul. It is a full tutor marketplace, live today, with real users booking real lessons. Here is what is running under the hood. Students search by subject and city, find available tutors, and book a lesson in minutes. Not a contact form. Not an email thread. An actual booking system with calendar availability and instant confirmation. Before any tutor takes a single booking, they go through DBS and ID document verification. Built into the platform. Automated. No manual admin required. Payments run through Stripe Connect. Students pay on booking. Tutors get paid after the lesson completes. Automatic. Clean. No chasing invoices. Lessons happen inside a live video classroom built directly into the platform. Students never leave the site. We built two subscription tiers, Free and Premium, an analytics dashboard for tutors to track student progress, and a full multi-role system keeping the student and tutor experiences completely separate from each other. The platform has already facilitated over 10,000 lessons and has students from more than 20 countries. The founder had zero technical background. They knew the problem. My job was to build the system that solved it. That is the kind of project I take on. If you are a founder with an idea and no technical team, save this post. When you are ready to build, send me a DM with the word "build" and we can talk about what you need. What is the biggest challenge you have faced trying to turn a product idea into something real? hashtag#SaaSDevelopment hashtag#WebDevelopment hashtag#EdTechA non-technical founder in the UK had an idea.