It is often said that it is best to “surround yourself with the best people you can find, who are smarter than you are” when assembling a team. While I don’t disagree with this, when founders try and assemble their management team (or even their founding team), they need to remember how the entrepreneurship context might necessitate a different way of executing on this sentiment. What is different in entrepreneurship is that things are almost always in a state of flux, and what we find and hold to be true in more established organizations has but a slight resemblance in entrepreneurship.
One of the things that I hear most often is that founders are struggling to find good people to join their team –most notably, a strong tech person and a strong sales person. There are so many loose ends to grapple with in start-ups – thinking about business models, pricing models, revenue models (all very sexy things); positioning for exit, launch, disruption (sometimes in that order) – that how to hire good people often falls by the wayside because it is more mundane.
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