Scale with agility: How you can grow after your round closes without increasing your headcount

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In the startup world, the ability to scale efficiently is critical to long-term success.

However, with limited resources and the need to remain agile, many companies are faced with the challenge of growing without compromising their structure and flexibility.

After many conversations with startups that have closed recent rounds, and from our own experience (we closed our seed round in October 2023), one of the crucial questions at that time is: how can we balance the challenge and risk of hiring full-time profiles against the need to grow agilely and sustainably?

If some of these statements have been floating around in your head:


You are afraid to invest money in hiring ecuador number dataset who you don't know will yield results and will be a good match for your project and team. In addition, hiring requires a large investment of time and resources, and this could slow down your growth.

The need to increase operational capacity can lead you to make very costly mistakes when hiring full-time employees , especially if you are not sure how long you will need those additional resources .

Growing quickly makes us question whether we are making good hiring decisions and this can affect our team culture .
So, keep reading , through this article I would like to give you some keys so that you can define a clear action plan and take into account the figure of fractional talent or freeworkers for your growth strategy .

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A changing employment landscape brings with it new ways to attract the best talent
In the last year and a half, more than 369,000 tech workers have been ruthlessly laid off by large companies in the technology world: at Meta alone, 21,000, at X (Twitter) half of its workforce, etc.

In response, many highly skilled workers have started to move in different directions. Disillusionment with the full-time working model has led many to turn to more flexible working models , and many have taken to the freelance world .

Then the recession hit, and startups were faced with a very difficult situation . Capital was increasingly scarce , and the pressure to demonstrate growth while managing expenses increased.

To make matters worse, the rules of the game changed completely with the explosion of generative AI, which brought new requirements for training and talent development to the table. And these new requirements for finding talent and building squads forced startups to change their product planning in order to remain competitive.

In this context, many have realized that the traditional hiring model is broken. It is a tedious process (more than three months) that consumes a lot of resources.

"We are facing a wave of highly qualified workers, with great experience and knowledge, who want to work on large projects with very good teams but without any long-term ties or career development within. These profiles aspire to stay between 6 and 12 months and provide the maximum possible value to the project."

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CEO OF SHAKERS Hector Mata


But this chaos of change hides new opportunities to attract talent with new formulas:

More and more startup leaders are taking advantage of incorporating Fractional Talent and freeworkers into their teams to meet their professional demands.

This new independent workforce allows them to connect with the best profiles in a fast, efficient and scalable way . This new model is not just an option, it is the best option because it combines stability, experience and the ability to pivot in response to opportunities and threats .

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