Chamara Peiris

Building startups? I’ve spent 18+ years starting, scaling & supporting them. 🎮 Founder @PlayLeeg 🚀 Helping founders grow at @LaunchpadIoM 💬 DMs open for collabs, mentoring, or partnerships.

7/ What's the hardest role you've had to hire for, and how did you build enough context to evaluate candidates honestly? #StartupHiring #Founders #EarlyStage #BuildingStartups

6/ If you're heading into a hiring process and you can't clearly describe what great performance in that role looks like, that's the actual starting point. Not the job description. Not the interview questions.

1/ Most founders try to hire people better than themselves. On paper, that sounds right. In practice, it's one of the most reliable ways to make a very expensive mistake.

6/ The idea will surface from that. It usually does. Just probably not on the timeline you were hoping for, and almost certainly not in a Notion brainstorming doc. What problem have you been sitting too close to for too long? #Founders #Startups #Entrepreneurship

5/ If you're still looking for your idea, the uncomfortable advice is this: stop looking for a startup idea. Learn something deeply. Work on problems that bother you. Spend time with people who are building things in spaces you care about.

1/ Most founders I know are trying to think their way into a startup idea. Sitting with Notion open, running "brainstorming sessions," treating idea generation like a task to be completed. It almost never works. And I think I know why.

If you're building right now: what's the last thing you spent on that didn't directly help you answer whether your idea is real? Be honest. That answer tells you a lot. [6/6] #startups #founders #entrepreneurship

Frugality forces a kind of clarity that easy spending never does. When you can't throw resources at a problem, you have to actually think about it. And that's usually when founders make their best calls. [5/6]

Most first-time founders confuse spending with progress. Here's what the best ones actually do differently. [1/6]

6/ We waited months. We rationalised. We hoped. And eventually we sat in a room on a Friday night with a spreadsheet and 48 names. Trust the signal earlier. It costs less than waiting. #startups #founders #entrepreneurship

5/ Those are the people nobody ever wishes they had kept around longer. Once the doubt is there, it does not usually go away on its own.

1/ One night, the COO and I had to fire 48 people. I was the CTO. No phased plan. No performance reviews. Just a decision we had both put off for months too long. Here is what I learned about knowing when to let someone go.