Commenting on How to Select a Startup Person?
Posted on August 18, 2008
I’ve discovered that I wrote about 5-6 articles on hiring in a small business. But that should stop me from adding more resources to it - simply because hiring is one of the most important steps a small business should take to grow.
This time I’m commenting on an article called How to Select a Startup Person? that appeared on Indian Startups, Entrepreneurship, Web2.0 blog. I’m happy to see that most of the views on hiring are common no matter the geography. Lets see:
- Right Mindset : For any startup, understanding the mind-set of prospective employee/partner is very important. It takes special peoples to work in a startup. I should know best, I’m some sort of startup junkie, loving to do the hard work in the beginning and getting bored once everything is set up. Even if you are a simple employee, working in a startup is harder and riskier. There is no saying if the company won’t go under and next thing you hear is that you have a dark spot on your resume. Of course, it doesn’t mean the company went under because of you, but in a way you were part of the things that didn’t go well.
- Financial expectations : People with startup mind-set would prefer to delay their financial gains. It’s way harder for a startup company to match the benefits an established company could offer. Luckily, the start-up employees take brain food from accomplishing things and making things matter.
- Higher Responsibilities : A Startup person would always emphasize his worth and capability to take higher responsibilities. You get to do a little bit of everything. And that especially good if you think about this as a learning experience. If I think well, most of the things I have an idea about today are things that I have experimented while being employed at my first start-up. Better than any college or anything.
- True Reflection of his aspirations/skill-set : A startup person would try to bring-out real aspirations in front of decision makers. Hm. What?
- Flexible Mind-set : A startup person is always open to new ideas and approaches. Chances are that sometimes you don’t know how to make things because they haven’t been done before. Or you have to make them different because of limited resources, or because you have enough liberty to do that. No matter how you put this, you’re walking paths than have never been traveled before.
- Innovation : A startup person would always think in innovative direction. He/She won’t try to solve problems in usual manner. Or as I said, you don’t know how to do stuff, and you… innovate
Good article. Now let me list the other articles I wrote about hiring in a small business.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
- Good news: Small Businesses can hire part time or project based
- What kind of employees for your small business?
- Make your employees happy - it’s an entrepreneur task
- Hiring new employees versus profitability
- Hiring in a bootstrapped company
- Small Business compete with Big Corporation
- Entrepreneurs get a different kind of reward
- Reasons to start a business
- Promote your small business with a press release
- Entrepreneurship: when your solution is not your best
- Knowledge resources for entrepreneurs
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