There is a vacancy at your nearby corporate, guess who are they looking for? Someone with student syndrome who can fit into their culture system and adjust and compromise and… you get the idea.
There is a vacancy at a startup. Guess who are they looking for? Or rather… who should they look for?
They must look for someone who will demand a change. Who will ask “Why? What’s the point?”
Don’t get me wrong. I am not talking about the lazy bummer who will demand more comfort. I am talking about those who have better ideas and want to discover better ways of doing it, someone who want to challenge the status quo, someone who will say, “Hey! Here is a better way of doing this” or even better, “Here is why we don’t need to do this.”
It’s not about accommodating to the vision – but raising that vision because they have a different perspective.
In a startup, differences are an advantage and are used for leverage, for finding the highway – the better way.
No one can follow your vision, but they can align their vision with yours. Benefit from their personalities, instead of asking the unnatural, “Be something we want you to be ignoring all that you are.”
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Dude!! I’ve just recently realized how incredibly important this is. My “business degree” often gets in the way of making the right decisions. Nick challenges my thought processes all the time and it’s wonderful. I think every start-up should have someone without any sort of prior business sense if they want to be truly innovative. Awesome, King! I don’t know how you know this ;).
So good! This example adds so much to the post (thanks man!). It’s so important to have people who say no to bad ideas because it’s so easy to fall in love with ideas – one of the reasons I wrote this post.
How I know this? Working with start-ups man! Helping them out and kinda teaching them marketing and all… so these notes are really the things I learned a week ago.