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I have a small business start-up, and one of the greatest difficulties has been getting people to work on the same project.
It's actually an interesting project (in my opinion) relating to the college audience. I've tried all throughout college to get business partners (had one), freelancers (had one), and others to work with.
Eventually, I basically gave up, said screw it, and realized nobody cares as much as I do about the project. So I learned a fair bit of programming myself (I rather dislike programming), and have built a fair bit of the application I've been working on all along myself.
Anyway, that's my story, but my question is how to recruit people away from large companies, lucrative (but often boring with little meaning) gigs, to take a pay cut and work on something risky but potentially a lot more interesting and meaningful (depending upon the person, of course)?
If it were me, I'd head to Silicon Valley where people take risks on such startups, get venture backing, recruit using equity, and then have a liquidity event in 4 years & then retire.
Good people with the skills you need deserve to be paid well. If you don't, you'll be looking again and never develop the "team" of people who will help you move forward.
Actually this is just part time. Even if it was full time, I fail to see how it's "career risking" to work for a start-up.
The answer is in your question.
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Originally Posted by concept_fusion
Anyway, that's my story, but my question is how to recruit people away from large companies, lucrative (but often boring with little meaning) gigs, to take a pay cut and work on something risky but potentially a lot more interesting and meaningful (depending upon the person, of course)?
Most start ups fail. It has to be worth it to them to take a pay cut and leave a lucrative job at a big company.
I have a small business start-up, and one of the greatest difficulties has been getting people to work on the same project.
It's actually an interesting project (in my opinion) relating to the college audience. I've tried all throughout college to get business partners (had one), freelancers (had one), and others to work with.
Eventually, I basically gave up, said screw it, and realized nobody cares as much as I do about the project. So I learned a fair bit of programming myself (I rather dislike programming), and have built a fair bit of the application I've been working on all along myself.
Anyway, that's my story, but my question is how to recruit people away from large companies, lucrative (but often boring with little meaning) gigs, to take a pay cut and work on something risky but potentially a lot more interesting and meaningful (depending upon the person, of course)?
Actually this is just part time. Even if it was full time, I fail to see how it's "career risking" to work for a start-up.
Because they are leaving a stable situation, for a non-stable one in which the start up can go belly up at any time, with the possibility of being unemployed which is always "career-risking" because it is always unknown how long unemployment will last and long unemployment stretches often have sicnificant and permanant effects on careers.
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