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Early-stage growth is exciting, but without internal structure, it gets messy fast.
Whether you’re hiring your first few team members, managing chaos in Slack, or wondering how to keep your day aligned with your mission, this session is designed to meet you where you are and offer practical, founder-tested solutions.
What You’ll Walk Away With:
- A simple calendar alignment process to reconnect your daily schedule with your company’s mission (do it once manually before you automate)
- Practical guidance for onboarding your next hire without creating chaos
- Tips on delegating effectively—even if no one “does it like you”
- A real-world introduction to HR 101 for startups (yes, even founders need an I-9)
- Live answers to your messiest internal ops questions from G-Drive structure to what your contractors should actually sign
Who It’s For:
Founders in incubators, accelerators, or pre-Series A startups who are:
- Feeling the weight of being the only one who “knows how it all works”
- Scaling fast but without structure
- Struggling to delegate or document without slowing down
Format:
- 30–40 minutes
- Virtual (Zoom), hybrid-friendly if local
- Light slides, no fluff - just visuals to support real-time discussion.
- No pitch. Just founder-first support and strategy.
Interested in bringing this to your cohort? Email barbs@heybarbs.io, book time with me at https://calendly.com/barbs-heybarbs/30-minute-startup-intro or reach out on LinkedIn.
About Barbs:
Barbara Didia Hyland is a strategic operations consultant with deep experience supporting early-stage startups through high-growth phases. She most recently served as Director of Executive Operations at a venture-backed company scaling from Seed to Series B+, where she led people operations, internal systems, and executive support.
With an MBA and a background spanning HR, organizational design, and investor communications, she now partners with founders to build scalable back-office infrastructure that supports sustainable growth.