The Little White Book of Recruiting for Startups
Specializations
About Agency
Overview
- Founded in 2019 in Austin, Texas, United States (78703) with 1 employee
- Created by Scott Uhrig, who left McKinsey & Company in 1998 and has specialized in executive recruiting for high-tech startups since then
- Addresses the problem of over 50% failure rates for new executive hires in startups
- Based on Scott Uhrig’s experience founding Whiterock Partners in 2003 and helping hundreds of startup founders, CEOs, and investors
- Provides a process to generate abundant candidates, uncover top talent, and select optimal executives
Specializations
- Executive recruitment exclusively for high-tech startups
- Recruiting for startup founders, CEOs, and investors building executive teams
- Process refinement for consistent executive hiring results in startup environments
- Mitigating disruptive and costly wrong executive hires in early-stage companies
Services & Approach
- Teaching how to fix traditional job specifications for executive roles in startups
- Advocating above-market compensation strategies for top executive performers
- Providing methods to increase quantity and quality of executive referrals
- Guiding three-dimensional evaluation framework for executive candidates
- Training on candidate comparison, hiring decisions, and executive lock-in techniques