Starting a business quickly transforms you. You must learn to be and do what you’ve never been or done before–or your business will fail. If you’ve never hired or managed teams before, you will learn by failing several times.
Surprisingly, first time business owners often make these mistakes while interviewing: Talking more about their plans for the business than asking challenging questions of the candidate; getting inspired by the interviewee vs. checking references and experience; hiring friends and family who need jobs and then not holding them as accountable as they would a qualified stranger they hired.