5 Steps to Building the Perfect Team for your Startup

Starting a new business is hard. Finding the right people for it is even harder. Discover the way you can build your perfect team to maximize your chance at success.

Allen Helton
The Startup
Published in
7 min readJun 2, 2019

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Starting a new company is scary. Sleepless nights, long hours, and bureaucratic red tape are all knocking at your door. You need a support team. You must balance the inordinate amount of work with people who will be by your side every step of the way.

But how do you find them? Having the right people by your side is critical to your success as a new company. You don’t need to be a hero and do it all yourself.

What you do need to do is find people that are as passionate as you are. Find the folks who sleep, eat, and breathe your vision. The ones who treat the dream as their own. You are not looking for the most skilled person in the field. You are looking for the person who aligns with your dream. Someone who is going to get the job done. Skills can be taught, but passion is core to who we are.

Don’t just look for people blind with passion though. You need to find the select group of people who are passionate about the guiding principles and core foundation of your startup. Finding the right people starts…

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Allen Helton
The Startup

I am an AWS serverless hero with a strong focus on API design and standardization, event-driven architectures, and software automation.