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How to get the perfect team mate for your startup.


I agree, running a startup is like running a small and effective military unit. At least, that's what many advisers and startup writers say. But that's not entirely true.

In a military unit
Every member of the team knows their part fully well.
Military units operate in a fashion that every member of the team knows 100% what they are supposed to be doing at any particular point in time. They also know and understand the jobs of every other member in the team, such that if they loose a member someone automatically fills his position.

In a Startup team
This is the same with a startup. You must make it clear to every member of your team, every employee, what it is they are supposed to be doing.
As a startup you also need generalists. People that are good in multiple fields. Programmers that are versatile. A good example is a PHP programmer that knows web design, photoshop and android development.
This helps you survive shocks of loosing one or two members in the team. People will always loose faith in your startup and walkout when you least expect it. Fields will open where you need someone who is good in it to work it out. Generalists save startups.

When you grow into a bigger company you can then start recruiting specialists - people that know only one path very well. Eg. User interface design

In a military unit
Every member of the team obeys orders 100%
In a military team, every member of the team obeys others and never ever argues. They report observations and think as a group. Whatever the group agrees is what everyone does. That's why you hear a lot of "yes sir!" in military units. Every man is a robot there.

In a startup team
This is where startups differ a little:
Startups thrive on successful and ground breaking ideas. You will re invent, pivot and improvise several times while looking for the pot of gold. The original idea may not even be useful or successful.
This demand for ideas makes it disastrous for you to employ 'robot' people. You need team members that can stare you in the eye and disagree with your opinion constructively during brain storming sessions.
You need people who can question your actions, build prototypes over night and submit to you in the day. They are very much loyal, but they are not afraid to think outside your box.

You need people who can come up with a different argument. Not arogant, but also not afraid to air their opinions.

Those are the people that will save your startup in terms of generating the right ideas or modifying existing ones. But as long as you give the final order on what direction the company should follow, they fall back in line and work with the rest of the team.
I call them good rebels.

Cor.ky Builders
Yes of course, there are people who are just arrogant and filled with too much pride. People are different. If the person still ends up coming up with amazing ideas, my suggestion is, they should stay. Just learn how to work with such people. What your startup needs is idea engines not measuring the level of pride in people.

Destroyers
There are also destroyers, people who will argue endlessly, aimlessly and in circles. They will scatter the meeting and you would end up not achieving anything. They are bad rebels, my suggestion is, they should go.

You need good rebels in your startup, not 'yes men'.

Thanks, have a nice day.

Source: Building the perfect startup, a series on Braintem.org http://braintem.org/twists/view/132114

dokiOloye:
Your father is d patron of all fools. Ediot

Jaideyone:
Liar!!! no region in the north had more than 50% turn out. the ss and se recorded 95-97% turn out and 95%voted Jonathan. that's the real fraud!!!

Imortal001:
If you said, let it be, let be, but the link you gave me is invalid.

Imortal001:
You aint gat no prove mehn. So stop quoting me or i invoke the spirit of osama and sent it to you.

dokiOloye:
Since d device U are using is able to post a comment on nairaland, it should also be able to do a Google search or U need to be spoonfed?

Dharniel:
okay

seunmsg:
Buhari better not try this.

Nigeria plans to double the value-added tax rate to 10 per cent this year to help shore up government revenue eroded by the declining price of oil, the country’s main export, the Federal Inland Revenue Service said.

“The plan is to increase to 10 percent this year, but we have to consult first with relevant stakeholders,” Sunday Ogungbesan, Acting Executive Chairman of the FIRS, told reporters.

Nigeria depends on crude exports for about 70 per cent of government revenue and more than 90 percent of foreign exchange. The price of Brent crude has dropped by more than half since peaking in June last year, undermining President Muhammadu Buhari’s ability to deliver on his election promises since he took office in May.

FIRS will put more effort in meeting targets after its collection of 1.97 trillion naira ($9.9 billion) in revenue in the first half fell short of a goal of 2.29 trillion naira, Ogungbesan said.

“If we achieve our revenue targets, to a great extent government deficits will be reduced,” he said. “Our plan is to bring every business into the tax net, this economy can survive outside oil,” he noted.

Imortal001:
I vote jonathan in 2011 and vote buhari in 2015. I switch my allegiance because jonathan disappoint me, instead of moving forward, he moves the country backward where stealing is not corruption.
On my own, i did a research about buhari and i discovered that what they told us in 2011 was a big fat lie just for them to win the election and to point the name "buhari" black.

Dharniel:
okay

onomeasike:
The cap on the last picture is controversial.1st PMB's signature cap isn't that cap.Secondly, halfof tthat year was under the leadership of another personality who incidentally wears that cap as his signature. That's a serious flaw of the art work.Sadly,it is a poor intellectual finishing despite the brilliant effort.

lomprico:
And after the gra gra, .........na go slow we dey.

donholy28:
by then he don old and walking with walking stick

vedaxcool:
One word describe your question: fanaticism!!!

Disneyboy:
abi

USarmy:
Does that stop him from being a [size=20pt]Dull@rd[/size] from ancient daura kingdom

OREMUSSANCTUS:
Am a christian and not a terrorist

donholy28:
by then he don old and walking with walking stick