Some good recruiting guidelines

   1. Tell me about the 3 biggest things you must accomplish.
   2. Tell me why you must accomplish them.
   3. Tell me when you must accomplish them by.
   4. Tell me how you intend to accomplish them.
   5. Tell me what you're already doing to accomplish them.
   6. Tell me the role you envision me playing in accomplishing them.
   7. Tell me what you expect from me.
   8. Put me with some of the key people already working on them.
   9. Tell me what you'll do when things change or go wrong.
  10. Take me to coffee.

Courtesy edw519

These apply better to larger companies, of course, as early-stage startups tend to have quite a bit more unknowns.