What is a good entrepreneurial team?

There is an unconfirmed statistic: within 5 years, 90% of the founders will fail, and within 10 years 90% of the remaining 10% will be out of the market, meaning that fewer than 10 of the founders will survive in 1% years. The author has not done exhaustive research, but the overall impression is also so.
Why do entrepreneurs live so short? Many people analyze the main reason is that in the entrepreneurial process, several shareholders disagree, the infighting occurred. Rough look, indeed it is so. But in fact it is not.
The author has long been engaged in marketing and management work, well versed in the importance of "prepare for the future", understand the "do business is to be a person", know that "human resources is the most critical element of enterprise development."
The author believes that the reason why entrepreneurs are more bankrupt, the most important is that they lack an excellent entrepreneurial team. It can be said that the failure of entrepreneurs from the beginning of a business, it has laid the fate of the failure of entrepreneurship.
Building a good entrepreneurial team is a vital task for any entrepreneur. So, how should we build a good entrepreneurial team? In other words, what is a good entrepreneurial team like?
An enemy team member
Most of the entrepreneurial team's core members are very few, generally three or four people, but more than a dozen people, so few team members from the Enterprise management point of view, is really "pediatrics", because the number is too small, almost every person engaged in management work feel able to easily ride. But in fact, the entrepreneurial team is small, but have their own ideas, have their own point of view, there is a hidden in the heart of the conviction of the pipe. As a result, we cannot be dismissive of every member of the entrepreneurial team.
All members of a good entrepreneurial team should be familiar with each other and know each other well. "The Art of War" in the Cloud: "Know each other, win", in the entrepreneurial team, team members are very conscious of their own strengths and weaknesses, while the other members of the advantages and shortcomings are also clear, so that can be very good to avoid the team members because of mutual unfamiliarity caused by various contradictions, disputes, Quickly improve the team's centripetal force and cohesion.
Now, many college students choose to start their own business, their choice of partners are also many classmates, friends, alumni, but still quickly failed. Why, then? Because their choice of partner is his "acquaintance", but his "acquaintances" between the lack of communication, communication, in the final analysis, or team members are unfamiliar with each other. Even in many campus BBS, the author saw a classmate has a new invention, or is a good idea, immediately gf "Hero stickers", although all are peers, but after all did not experience the "blood and Fire" test, such team members are lack of cohesion.
So, a good start-up team should first make sure that all the core members of their team are very familiar with each other, use one of the most vulgar words described is the following four categories of people: a classroom learned classmate, a trench fighting comrades, a casino played gambling friends, a room for the prostitutes.
Remember: Entrepreneurial teams don't need strangers!
Entrepreneurial team with different talent and complement
The entrepreneurial team is small, but "spite". Entrepreneurial team members can not be exclusively technology flow members, can not be all engaged in terminal sales, excellent entrepreneurial team members have their own strengths, we combine together, just is complementary, complement each other.
Relatively speaking, a good entrepreneurial team must include the following: A very strong sense of innovation, this person can determine the future direction of the company, the equivalent of the company's strategic decision makers; a person who is highly capable of planning, who can fully and thoroughly analyze the opportunities and risks faced by the whole company, consider costs, investments, The source and expected income of the income, even including the company's regulatory regulations, long-term planning and design work; A member with strong executive ability, this person is responsible for the following execution process, including contacting customer, contacting end consumer, expanding market, etc. In addition, if it is a technology-type start-up company, there should also be a master of research (even the research leader), of course, the entrepreneurial team also need someone to master the necessary financial, legal, audit and other aspects of expertise. Only in this way, team members can be considered more qualified.
One thing to add is that in an entrepreneurial team, there is no possibility of duplication of two core members, that is to say, there can be no more than two of the main capabilities of the same, for example, two are the ideas of the people, two are doing the market, etc., this situation is absolutely not allowed. Because as long as the advantages of duplication, duplication of positions, then there will inevitably be a variety of contradictions, and ultimately lead to the entire entrepreneurial team to disband. Examples of this are countless.
Those who are thinking of starting a business and starting a business please think over the above questions carefully and see if your own entrepreneurial team really can be different and complement each other. If not, then, please do other plans early.
The entrepreneurial team must have a competent leader
In business management and marketing, we often talk about the core competencies of leaders; in fact, in the entrepreneurial team, the role of leader is more important.
I have received a number of friends, students sent to join the entrepreneurial invitation, but more is a rebuffed. The reason may be very much, but the key point is that they do not have a good leader.
A friend relies on his parents ' support plus personal savings, and plans to invest in 300,000 chain bookstores. He has not previously contacted the field of publishing, so I hope that the author in the past to help him carry out a comprehensive marketing, he is chairman, only to do "decision-making", do not interfere with specific business. But the author, through his past dealings with him, knew that he had always been accustomed to "interfering" in the work of others. This kind of entrepreneurial assumption I pardon.
University students have a scientific and technological innovation, pulled to a venture capital, but also strongly invited the author past. The author is well aware that although he has a good personal relationship, but he is not suitable to do business, the author of all his feelings do not "cold".
The entrepreneurial team must have a competent leader, and this kind of leader is not determined by money, technology or patents alone, nor who has a good idea and who is in the lead. This leader is a team member in the years of schoolmates, the process of working together from the heart of the recognition, everything else is nonsense.
Many entrepreneurial teams are dying in a short time, and it is important that the leaders of the entrepreneurial team are not a qualified leader at all. And the role of the leader, to speak plainly, is to "decide everything"!
Many young people are ambitious, eager to ascend to the heaven, they dare to eat the first "crab", but they are not necessarily the competent entrepreneurial team leader, they have only played a "pioneer" model role.
Excellent entrepreneurial team, alone must not lack the competent leader!
In fact, the excellent entrepreneurial team must also have the following conditions, such as all the core members of a clear division of labor, equity allocation is clear; The core members should have the corresponding work (practice) experience, and even have a good understanding of the entire industry, and so on, here is limited by space, no more words In short, entrepreneurship is not an easy business, but it is not an issue; to succeed, it is very important to have an excellent entrepreneurial team.