Firing is hard but important. And how to do it well.

Too Long; Didn't Read

Running a <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/startup" target="_blank">startup</a> is hard. But there are still harder things inside it. One of them is Firing! When you are a small team, say, 5–7 people, you are like family and pushing someone out of family is very hard. I had to do this, and I did my best to avoid it as much as I could, for as long as I could. The result was frustrating, I could not sleep at night, not getting value out of your investment in a startup was hurting, it was heavy on my heart. For long, I was finding excuses that it might work, or maybe I need to improve to make my team work better. I tried but it did not work. In this post I want to talk about the psychological pressure I had gone through, financial implications and a feeling of continuous dissatisfaction I had been through and the framework I created to deal with situations like this in future.