First Hire Series: Operations with Jamie Valenti-Jordan
This lesson is an episode of Startup CPG.
Listen to the episodeWhat you'll get
Jamie Valenti-Jordan, who runs a consultancy that helps food brands with technical and operational work, on setting up operations versus running them, when to hire an operations person or use a consulting firm, and when to add software. His firm sells that kind of consulting, so weigh his advice on using one accordingly, and use the episode to decide which operations jobs you can still do yourself.
Do this week
List every operations task you do now, such as ordering ingredients, scheduling a co-packer or shipping, and mark the one that costs you the most hours each week.