How and when to hire your first full-time employee?

When I joined my first job in April 2009, it was a team of four members. For some reason or the other, all of them quit within a span of three months and I was the only one left handling an online news website as a single member. I managed it end-to-end from collecting news, posting articles to managing the backend of the website. I stuck to my job in that lean period and I am glad I did. Now when I look back, I think that phase made me realise the importance of actually getting the first tea...