How to keep people in a start-up company

Entrepreneurial stage of the company, people are the first, the matter is people do, resources in the hands, the team decided the project road can go far, investors are most valued is the team. Start-up companies have no money or fame, hiring, keeping people are very difficult, loss of team personnel, not only delay the project progress, but also affect morale, recruitment and retention is one of the most headaches of the entrepreneurial team, according to my business when the results of validation summary has been the following several experience:

1. Value first. Hiring when not to attract money, for money and easy to go for money, entrepreneurship has a low risk, short-term profit is normal, but for money to meet difficulties more likely to retreat. My technical team at that time gave a guaranteed living wage below the level of the industry, 4-5 full-time partners and more than 20 part-time operating teams are not paid, we believe that we are doing a meaningful thing, as for the value of return, things made, money is only accessory. In this state, we have done together for 1 years to 2 years of time.

2, to tell you clearly, entrepreneurship is not a matter of quick success. Quote to the team before: "Everyone's psychology has a question: when in the end can be effective, can be made!" Burntrissi the definition of success has a simple law, we must understand: 28 law.　That is 80% time of effort, will be successful in the last 20% time! According to this theory, our 5-year plan, will have 4 years of hard work time, in the fifth year of success! So we have to have this correct understanding, be prepared. 5 years if we can do it, the pace is very fast. If you want to achieve a great career in 1, 2 years 2, 3 years, it is impossible, this small probability event is more difficult than the lottery. We need to understand correctly. If we do not adhere to the original goal in the past 5 years, whether it is work or continuous change of projects, will not have much success. 5 years is fleeting! In youth, after 5 years of hard business, I believe this will become a lifetime of valuable wealth, regardless of the outcome, we will have no regrets, because we have tried! We will have a richer mind to educate our children and influence our next generation. Unfortunately, I was the first one to leave because of less income and problems such as capital and technical bottlenecks.

3, let everyone feel their own progress and growth. In addition to money, everyone in the entrepreneurial team has the expectation of personal development, perhaps they want to take a project to improve their training, there is nothing to blame. I was trying to bring you to understand the Internet, operating SEO and operation promotion, community marketing, microblogging marketing and other matters. Of course, I do not think this is good enough, feel unworthy of everyone, not let you learn more valuable things.

4, let everybody see project progress and hope. This is important, everyone wants to do something worthwhile, effective, quick, if the long-term is in a downturn or difficult period, there will be no morale. This premise is as a leader to have a better planning ability, the overall goal planning, stage goal quantification, the implementation of target refinement! I was talking to you about the stage goal: "As long as we finish these milestone, we can be closer to success." "Each stage has a detailed Excel worksheet, daily work by the British son and Yufeng responsible for distribution and management, weekly meeting to summarize work progress, praise and reminders, plus the outside of good news, technology breakthroughs, investor inquiries and so will share, so that everyone can see hope, also can see achievements. Have the power to insist.

5, let everybody cherish this team. Let the team members of the atmosphere is a family, brothers and sisters feelings. This thing is mainly Yufeng, Dragonball and Nana and other people in the input warmth, I generally play the black person. But the overall atmosphere is good, some people leave halfway, everyone will feel sorry. Usually together to help or chat, will have a mutual encouragement of the role, feeling behind the team, rather than a person in the fight.

6, let everyone see their own value and role. Responsibility to people, entrepreneurship no small things, everything is important, are valuable. Let everyone see their role, if left, the team is the impact and loss, such a subconscious incentive, will be more determined.

7, with the core team to create spiritual leaders, affect everyone. Entrepreneurship is always uncertain, uncertain factors are many, but do not give everyone the answer, also need not Gao, this is virtual. The most real is executive power, action, exemplary ability. I started looking for 4 people, working full-time from the Taobao community, in the short term will gang development to more than 2000 people, and quickly be Taobao community to do management team, and then we began to do their own website, recruit team, developed to thirty or forty people, I learned that many members follow us to do together for the reason so simple: " I see you guys have a lot of faith in this and you're very capable, and I'm infected and I think it's a good thing.

8, the wrong person, determined to ask him to leave. Entrepreneurial team, all of us brotherly feelings, when it comes to asking people to leave, it is difficult for anyone to open, but must do, remember to read the Tcl Li wrote "I Why guilt," is to regret the indulgence of some inappropriate executives ... If you do not maintain the team's executive power, resulting in the project is not good, everyone's efforts are in vain. Who is responsible for delaying to the end? Everyone is responsible, but the chief responsibility is the CEO.

If due to sensibilities or other factors, not to let the wrong person leave, the team will become very bloated, will also occur "bad currency expulsion good currency." It is unfair to the project and to everyone. Lack of heart is the main reason why many startups fail. So when this happens, it will be broken. There is a saying that "mercy does not lead the troops, is responsible for the people", my approach is a regular meeting in the public hint, no change, on the private communication inquiries. No improvement, it will be enforced. It doesn't matter how you use the red and the black.

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