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You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do. —Henry Ford Reference checking is a crucial part of recruiting a great team. However, most startups do it in a cursory and casual way after making a hiring decision. Courtesy of Amy Vernetti, here’s a short course on reference checking to improve your results.

There’s one more test to apply to candidates, the Shopping Mall Test. “Life is too short to work with people you don’t like—especially in a startup.” This is how it works. Suppose you are at a shopping mall. You see a candidate before he notices you. At that point, you can do one of three