Proof Before People: A Founder's System for Screening, Testing and Verifying Before You Commit - Tapa dura

Sinopsis

Proof Before People

You wouldn't build a product, sign a major contract, or invest heavily without evidence. Yet many founders build their companies around people they have barely tested.

Proof Before People is a practical guide to building a startup team based on evidence rather than excitement, familiarity, or assumptions. It helps founders make better decisions about co-founders, early employees, advisors, titles, equity, and leadership.

You'll learn how to:

- Decide whether you actually need a co-founder

- Test a potential co-founder before giving away equity

- Evaluate people through real work, not promises

- Discuss money, time, roles, equity, and exits early

- Create clear founder agreements with professional legal help

- Make your first five hires thoughtfully

- Build effective interview scorecards and reference checks

- Know when to hire doers instead of managers

- Handle underperformance before it becomes expensive

- Understand what advisors and accelerators can realistically provide

With practical exercises, checklists, scorecards, conversation frameworks, and real-world examples, this book is designed for founders building teams from one person to roughly fifteen.

Trust matters. But evidence builds stronger teams.

Don't build your company around assumptions about people. Prove them first.

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