And always, hire slowly, but fire quickly. Swallow your pride, admit you made a mistake in hiring someone, and move on. Last year Jeff Lawrence learned about truth from about 50 students at UCLA, and it has helped him run his business. I read their reports and everyone had their own interpretations. You can have a set of facts and then everyone has his own point of view about it.
Truth is relative.
In 1988 he was laid off from Doelz Networks and decided to start his own company. Getting laid off was the catalyst. Then it came down to assessing what I could do. I had knowledge in telecommunications software development. I still had the skills to go back and work for someone else.