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Money talks, in order to get top level talent you will have to pay. Any smart developer/designer will not take equity as an option for pay because 10% of nothing is worse than a set wage.
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.
If you fail to see why someone would come to work for some dude they've never heard of, that won't need you full-time, wants to pay you less, with probably no experience on how to get the job done, you might as well throw in the towel now.
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)?
The reason many people work at startups is not for the pay but they are vested in the company and if the company takes off they own part of the company. I would say you need to offer something like this. Also do you have an actual company or do you have an idea?
Apps are a dime a dozen and ideas for apps even more so. You have to have a real company and not just an idea if you plan on getting someone with a lucrative and in demand skill to leave an establishhed company and good job for a pay cut.
Most people don't care about their part time job that much. It is not their career and they only do that for cash, when they are very tired.
A good way to motivate them is to make them feel they own a part of the business.
Most people don't care about their part time job that much. It is not their career and they only do that for cash, when they are very tired.
A good way to motivate them is to make them feel they own a part of the business.
If this guy is looking for programmers were not talking about part time workers at KFC were talking about fulltime office jobs or at the very least contract positions which may not have benefits but pay over industry standard to make up for it.
I have a feeling OPs biggest problem and I'm making an assumption here is that he has an idea, not a business. If you ever watch shark tank you hear them make this critique of many companies and people and oftentimes these people in my mind do have a business but a single app is not a business its an idea or a product. If you want people to leave their jobs you better have a company, apps are a dime a dozen and oftentimes are fads that come and go if they even take off in teh first place
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