Human blockers: a hiring, retention, and culture guide for Iranian startups
If you have never worked in human resources and have just launched your startup, Human Blockers helps you solve the problem like a set of instructions.
Human Blockers teaches you what to do in practice if you know nothing about HR. If you own a startup or a newly founded company, don’t worry about managing people. Open the book and follow its recommendations step by step.
With limited capital, assemble and develop your team in the most professional way.
This book gives you the fastest, lowest-cost approaches so that, without any experience in HR management, you can lay the foundations of a fitting culture for your early-stage business and hire and retain people professionally.
Humans became modern humans when they learned to work in groups and teams. Coordinated teamwork is a requirement for the progress of any civilization. Great, powerful empires are created by good, loyal soldiers, and the most beautiful symphonies are played by fully coordinated musicians.
About the authors
Amin Sajedi
In his first job he entered the startup world with Packfood, and they took the Ahvaz market at a time when food-delivery services were not yet widespread in Tehran. After his first product-management role at Yara, he launched his own startup, Adlift. That is where much of his experience of HR for startups took shape. After testing the product, Adlift raised capital and went through rapid headcount growth, which meant learning the ins and outs of startup HR.
Amirhossein Hosseini Pazhouh
After three years of teamwork and one year managing a four-person team at a news-and-analysis site, he launched the Mibarim startup. A hundred interviews in one year, and experimenting with different hiring strategies at the lowest possible salaries, created challenges that produced a range of experience in hiring and retaining low-cost talent for startups. After that he gained further experience in team-building and launching startups, which helped him finish this book.