| Article Description: in the process of contacting the entrepreneurial team, it was a little surprising to find that most of the invitations were not skillful, or even clearly inappropriate. Just to tell you, to start a business, to work together. I don't know how effective this invitation can be. For ordinary employees, people are talking to you about treatment, to the core partners, and appear arrogant or rash. |
Probably because I'm handsome, I've received invitations from more than 10 start-up teams in the last few months. However, all declined. I still have unfinished business to wish.
In the process of contacting the entrepreneurial team, it was a little surprising to find that most of the invitations were not skillful, or even clearly inappropriate. Just to tell you, to start a business, to work together. I don't know how effective this invitation can be. For ordinary employees, people are talking to you about treatment, to the core partners, and appear arrogant or rash.
Talk about some of the misunderstandings of the entrepreneurial team inviting companions.
1. Background of Investigation
More than one team contacted me the first time and asked, "What company do you hold?"
This question makes me very surprised, you to me more Google, in the industry to inquire about, you can find all kinds of professional background information. Even if this investigation is unwilling to do so, how much sincerity does the invitation have?
To put it another way, you don't know anything about my professional background, or maybe someone recommended it or read a journal. Well, I know very little about my experience and talents. With a preliminary impression to pull people, do you have a little sloppy work? Again, this initial impression does not tell me where I fit into the entrepreneurial team, and there should be different invitations to treat different levels of peers.
My profile, on the Internet, should be partially public. I have a very well run blog, and I have a microblog with sex graffiti. It's easy to know who I am, but it's easy to overload information. Doing your homework in advance is the first step in inviting a partner (especially an important partner).
2. Keep Polite
Politeness is a relative measure. The polite attitude is also different for each other's career background, what kind of position he fits into the entrepreneurial team (preliminary findings from the initial survey). But there is one thing in common, is to let the other party feel you know him, you recognize him.
If you do your homework before you communicate, the process of conversation can be smoother, not just by instilling information on your side. I often hear people say, "You have a lot of ideas from your blog." "This is nonsense. If I could have a little depth of conversation based on some of my journal views and my professional experience, it would obviously deepen mutual recognition. Instead of a monkey rushing up to ask, are you coming? Why don't you come?
It's important to invite a companion to the foreplay. I met a few times not only without foreplay, but also hurriedly asked: "We are missing a PM, we think you are suitable"-then uncontrollable rage up. Lao Tze in the portal for four years director of the department, the previous two years, the leader of the millions of VCs to start a small company, in your eyes on a 35-year-old PM?
Even more outrageous is that even if the project is not clear, come up and say to me: "You come to work, there is no left management position." "I am not unable to spell a line, but your attitude is obviously looking for grass-roots staff, what do you need me for?" Is this a fucking face run? coldly rebuffed. In retrospect did not turn on the spot, I really have self-restraint.
These times, it was a member of the entrepreneurial team who came to invite me, very insincere-and, of course, to find an ordinary employee who didn't need a leader. At last I left a very bad impression. Entrepreneurship also needs emotional quotient, brother.
In addition, some people have invited the results, and then I have a lot of criticism. Since you think I have a lot of problems, why did you invite me? shit!
Smart people from my experience, should be able to sum up some entrepreneurial recruitment, the truth.
3. Show the strength
What is the strength of the entrepreneurial team? The first is the initial core team, and the second is the direction of the project.
Most people who deserve your invitation know that the core team decides the success or failure of the business. The internet to fight is the people-your current team is not strong, coupled with my later, can have how much combat power, must be the first point. In addition, the new entrants are able to complement each other, character tacit understanding, reasonable division of labor, even including the degree of enthusiasm, is from the perspective of people to consider things. So in the invitation, you should first prove that you are a reliable team. The lion and the lion went hunting the buffalo together. Only when you (your team) gets the approval of the other person will he be able to think seriously about joining.
Second, you may wish to talk more about the direction of the project. Confidentiality also need not speak too deep, on the one hand to see his interest in this field, on the other hand to judge each other, the future cooperation of the tacit degree. More terrible than the shortage of talent is the constant internal friction, disputes, spell life to convince each other, someone work in the wee hours on time. There is no minimum consistency (but it's quite difficult) to get off the same boat.
I've said many times before, hiring is talent trading. The buyer is going to get a starting price. This price is not a salary or a job, not even a disembodied option, but a trust in your team and the project you are about to invest. It's not working to take out the old experience of hiring big companies, and personal charisma is your bargaining chip. 7 years ago when I started a business--forget about my little things, you look at the blingbling old wet, well versed in this way ah. I am the only one to admire the domestic it big man. Although can not be the same as to learn humbly.
4. Communication Mode
About half of the invitees asked for my cell phone number, hoping to communicate directly. There are hours of work that came out of the way. There's no harm in talking, but frankly, no one on the phone to show a brilliant talk skills, I was embarrassed to say that I have no intention of leaving now, do not know your situation there, and kept telling me "come on," How can I answer you? Have nothing to say, but also because of politeness to play a haha.
Some things are not urgent.
Call or write mail (most do not recommend using IM), there is a prerequisite, is to communicate before the basic information to pave the way to smooth communication. So my advice is to brief you by email, including the team situation and project direction, including expressing your understanding and recognition of him. After two or three emails to the bottom, ask for cell phone number to call. Messages can be clearer and more structured to introduce some basic information, especially to avoid unexpected problems with the quality of the call signal.
Whether it's an email or a call, the inviter needs to ask questions, rather than keep talking. You should be more concerned about the other person's response, he has enough knowledge of your team, agree? Is he interested in the direction of the project? What does he care about, what he hesitates, what he cares about? Don't wait for the other person to ask questions. In that situation, the invitees are apt to fall into the silence of the unknown cloud.
"What else do you need to know about this team?" ”
"What do you have in the direction of this project?" ”
"How do you view these representative products in the field that we are entering?" ”
Mailroom Continue to gently consult each other's opinions in order to promote valuable communication. Even if this is not the case, it may not be possible to co-operate later. The thirst for talent is almost an eternal proposition and will not be dispelled by the opening up of your business. If you find out that this person is really right for your project team, even if it is temporarily rejected, it's good to have one more friend and one more speaker in this business area. There is no need to jump out of the way, it seems too utilitarian and impersonal.
As for the more than 10 entrepreneurial teams I have contacted, half of them seem particularly eager to know little about me and not to communicate deeply, presumably to cast nets everywhere. This is actually dangerous. First, it is possible that the initial core team was understaffed and could not rely on the founders to make a potential product prototype (or slow progress), but there was a lot of randomness in inviting new companions, so lean. Secondly, it is easy to make mistakes in the busy, and find the internal friction caused by unsuitable companions enough to destroy such a fragile entrepreneurial team. It is better to be slow and cautious, and to ensure the unity and tacit understanding within.
Entrepreneurial recruitment is impatient to eat hot tofu thing, rather than Midway Jiyan, as before starting a patient together a reliable core team, don't wait until the sea to Changxuduantan about constraints.
I sent a micro-blog the other day and said, "What are people in big companies complaining about?" 1, the atmosphere is not fanatical, 2, allocated to their own resources less, 3, not free. Forehead a hot start, the results found that the atmosphere is not enthusiastic, but also to get a little bonus and raise incentives, entrepreneurial period to inspire fart. As for resources, it used to be true that there were fewer after the venture. Although the action is free, the shortage of resources leads to few things to do.
Cup with AH.
The solution is "to start a business, to gather people first." If the enthusiasm, tacit understanding, strong founder team can independently make product prototypes, in the market caused a certain response, and then the core team again out to find someone to pull people, Rhenish corporal, easy to get on track. Look at the foreign Instagram, Path, Kik, it is not so? It is rumored that the first 5 people in the entrepreneurial team decided the final results ahead of time.
I also sent a micro-blog said: Choose to go to large companies, to analyze a whole very complex ecological environment. Choose to go to vertical midsize companies to see what they do and how much power they have. Choose to start a small team, to see what kind of people to work with. Each individual local conditions, not necessarily covet the fame and fortune of the big company, also may not be not to sway the blood of the entrepreneurial. I have been in a large company for 4 years since the resignation of the Public Prosecutor's Office in Chengdu, and medium-sized companies have been 3.5, starting 2 years. Each have experience. There is no parting other than "concrete analysis" of 8 words.
