Building a startup is never easy. It involves a wide range of tasks and challenges in different areas — from finding funding and establishing a strategy to building a great product and finding your customer base.

Congratulations! You’ve taken the plunge and started your company. You know all the things you need — funding, product-market fit, a growth roadmap — and it can be a lot. Now the question is: who exactly do you need to hire in order to put your plan into action?

A job description describes the responsibilities of a position and also highlights the company's vision. Besides, it is an opportunity to attract all the potential and suitable candidates that might make a difference to your organization. And that is why it is imperative to create a job description that highlights all the needs of the vacancy, so you don't have to spend hours or days to find a person that ticks all the right boxes.

Successful recruiting depends on having a solid understanding of your candidates. Especially in the startup world, where a fast-growing number of companies are competing for a relatively small pool of talent, it’s incredibly important to know who you’re hiring and how you can connect with them.

The Swarm enabled uMed to automate and scale relationship-based outreach with a centralized, searchable combined network organized by strength of relationships. By leveraging their extended network, uMed uncovered new opportunities and faster conversions in both business development and fundraising.

They can lean on existing relationships and shared experiences, on top of fit and intent signals, to move deals forward and accelerate their growth.

Quorum1's use of The Swarm exemplifies how network-driven organizations can harness the power of their extended networks to enhance their operations, foster collaboration, and create more opportunities.

Using The Swarm, 500 Emerging Europe is able to unify and search through their collective network. They're already using the platform to introduce founders to top talent and plan to use it for sales and other high-potential introductions.

The new GTM playbook is about building relationships and leveraging influence to drive deals forward. It’s no longer enough to rely on cold outreach and a flood of emails. The winners in today’s market will be the ones who tap into sales data 2.0 and capitalize on their network’s power.

The webinar emphasized the critical role of network operations in venture capital, highlighting how VCs have always relied on their networks for sourcing investment opportunities. The ability to map and leverage relationships is now recognized as essential across various aspects of a VC fund’s performance, including fundraising, deal sourcing, due diligence, and portfolio support.

Here's a practical playbook with ten insights for startup leaders focusing on building and leveraging their networks!

Experts explain the tactical, network-based approaches companies should take to succeed in 2023 — and why they matter: Richard Cho (Advisor & Former Chief Recruiting Officer at Gem), Nolan Church (CEO at Continuum), David Connors (Co-Founder & CEO at The Swarm). Panel event moderated by Opal Franklin (Events Lead at The Swarm).

When we talk about uniting the individual networks of your team, investors, and advisors into a single combined network on The Swarm, what exactly does that mean? We’re glad you asked. Your Network Graph is where the magic happens.

The way we build and structure businesses has changed radically over the past few decades. The rise of the startup has created a whole new model for business, challenging the traditional, siloed corporate structures that have been around for a century or more. However, while businesses have changed, the way we recruit has remained the same in many ways. Network recruiting is here to change that.

The Swarm will be the operating system that early stage startups use to find and hire top talent. Here is what led me to start the company and why our platform could lead a transformation in startup recruiting.

We're excited to announce that we've raised $2m in preseed funding. The round was led by Contrary Capital with participation from Global Founders Capital, the co-founders of Superhuman, Lookout and Thumbtack, as well as a number of industry veterans and angel investors. This funding will help accelerate our mission to transform startup recruiting.