Stay focused and don't try to do too many things at once. Care about execution quality.
If you compromise in the first five, ten hires it might kill the company.
Momentum and growth are the lifeblood of startups. This is probably in the top three secrets of executing well.
Unpopular but right is what you're going for.
You need to figure out what the 2 or 3 most important things are, and then just do those.
Later, you should learn to hire fast and scale up the company, but in the early days the goal should be not to hire. Not to hire.