Hiring For Startups - A few tips to note

Here’s a good read. We found this article very relevant and interesting for our readers, and thought might as well publish it here. It’s re-published from Nandini’s blog (http://nandini.madhouse.in).
@Nandini: thanks for allowing us to re-publish your article here.
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