Thank you, I think as a startup, that’s the best resource one can afford. It is really hard to attract the right kind of talent esp with limited resources at hand. However, if we play it right, the startup can be a very good way to reach the end results and keep everyone involved excited.

In my previous experience, depending on the type of field, we always found people who were really excited. But not all of them would stick for long, so we had to evolve a mechanism to keep the best ones interested. Also a startup is certainly not for someone who likes everything too structured. There is always room for change and modification throughout the development of a company, customer profile and associated activities..

True Suman, although such a simple message, I am amazed as to how many times it is not heeded for. I have been in teams where a leader is obviously wrong by miles, but there is no response from the team mates. In fact I have been in a place where I have told nothing to the leader although I knew it was a mistake for the business. In my experience, this leader was quite a nightmare to work with, impossible person to offer any feedback to. I guess it is a two way street. Now that I look back on this post, I realise I have not addressed the importance of a leader or a startup lead to understand and make themselves available for feedback. It makes no sense to lose out on good ideas just because the leader is unwilling to listen. After all intelligence or business sense is not concentrated only in one person. It takes more than that one person to lead a business to success.