Fundraise Team & Hiring

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name: fundraise-team-hiring
description: Shapes the team story investors fund - the earned right to win, founder-market fit and named gaps - into a plan for the one or two hires the round must make and the equity and vesting to grant them. Use when a founder is shaping the team for a raise or hiring against the round. Triggers on "team slide", "what hires do investors want", "how much equity for an early hire", "key hire before fundraising", "is my team fundable", "hiring plan for the round".
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# Fundraise Team & Hiring

Investors fund a team's ability to learn faster than the market changes. "Why
this team wins this bet" must be answerable without hand-waving - and the gaps
must be named with a credible plan, not hidden. This skill builds both the story
and the hiring plan behind it.

## When to use this skill

Use it while building the team slide in [[pitch-deck-builder]], when sizing the
option pool in [[cap-table-manager]], and when use-of-funds in the ask is mostly
"key hires."

## The team story investors fund

- **Earned right to win**: the specific experience or insight that makes this
  team unusually suited to *this* problem. Not a resume - a reason.
- **Founder-market fit**: why you, why now, the unfair advantage you carry.
- **Named gaps, owned**: every investor sees the holes. Naming them first
  ("we need a VP Eng by Q3, here's the pipeline") signals self-awareness;… load the full skill through Skill Me