There is a question every founder eventually faces and very few answer well. Not who do I hire next, but how should my whole organisation take shape as we grow.
To find out what the answer looks like in practice, we profiled 1,385 employees across ten of Dublin’s most successful software start-ups and traced how their teams evolved from the early product-only days to a fully built-out organisation. The patterns were remarkably consistent. Engineering leads, sales arrives on a predictable clock, customer teams follow sales, and talent itself shifts from an afterthought to a strategic advantage.
Charting Your Course turns those patterns into a practical hiring blueprint you can hold against your own company, so you can see where you are, what comes next, and where the common scaling mistakes tend to hit.
Reading about hiring patterns is one thing. Building the right team for where your company is heading is another, and that is the harder part.
If you are weighing up your next hires, working out when to bring a function in-house, or trying to scale without the cost and lock-in of either agencies or fixed headcount, the TA.guru team can help. We work as an embedded extension of your business, bringing the strategy, structure and execution to match your plans to your stage of growth.
Tell us where you are and where you want to be, and we will help you chart the path between the two.
Get in touch here or email info@ta.guru to set up a conversation
