> Direct experience in our rubric means substantially the same kind of work (coding, design, product management, etc.)
This is a recipe for finding people without "n" years of experience, but instead finding people with one year of experience repeated "n" times. Great if you need a specialist in something, tragic if you need generalists - which most startups do.
Having founded and worked at quite a few start-ups, start-ups should aim for one specialist for every half-dozen generalists, preferably even lower than that. It's not a hard and fast rule, and pretty flexible, but if you have a single generalist and lots of specialists in a start-up, you are in trouble.
> Direct experience in our rubric means substantially the same kind of work (coding, design, product management, etc.)
This is a recipe for finding people without "n" years of experience, but instead finding people with one year of experience repeated "n" times. Great if you need a specialist in something, tragic if you need generalists - which most startups do.