What roles does a start-up team need?

First, you have to understand that the core of an entrepreneurial team is team leader. Generally speaking, the investment community is most important to the start-up team is the leader people how, not the project how, idea how. What should a good leader be like? Both Gates and Chowa, despite their personal temperament (an engineer temperament, a product manager temperament), or the way they work (gates used to play the code himself, Chowa the Lord is directing others to do) are vastly different. But in general, some of its fundamental qualities are certainly necessary.

1. A sense of responsibility that is legitimate but not rampant. Power and responsibility equivalence, since IS leader, the power does not have to say. But if you can come forward at the critical moment, the team will never give up any difficulties, the problem does not shirk responsibility. For a good leader, responsibility is the first.

2. Final's courage. Since it is a good entrepreneurial team, it is to make out of nothing, do what others think is impossible. The road is full of thorns. Many entrepreneurial teams are always talking endlessly about business models, product designs and even hiring and financing issues, and no one can convince anyone, like chicken. It is very easy to cause confusion within the team, business stagnation, but also the failure of the entrepreneurial team a major factor. Good leader will choose to be dogmatic and take action decisively at the critical time. Good leader will convince the team and maintain a strong executive power, whether through persuasion or forced orders. These are bound to be based on a sense of responsibility.

3. Long-term and open horizons. Open more easily defined, is involved in many areas, hobbies, everything will understand a little. But the long term is a matter of opinion. Generally speaking, few people can predict the "future trend" so accurately, see, is "trend". But the founders of great companies, certainly can do this: Chowa that the PC will change the world, Chowa that the smartphone will change the world, so there are Apple and the iphone (some might argue that Apple and the iphone weren't built by Steve Jobs alone, yes, But Chowa is the real navigator, that's the key. So a good leader should at least be a person who has a dream and can look far into the future.

4. Warm heart and calm mind.

5. Coordination and organizational capacity. delegate, according to each person's ability and the characteristic reasonable distribution team member work, coordinates each department member's work. Establish the mechanism of enterprise operation and corporate culture.

Second, the other members of the team

1. Technical personnel are somewhat complex and need to see the team configuration. The number of start-up companies is not too large, but the technology should be a big proportion, because they are really "work". If the economic strength is sufficient, must have one not only the technical ability is strong, more important is knows how to form the team, raises the new person "the technical director". Then technical staff recruitment and access can be given to the technical director to do, for a good technical director of these are small case. If there is no such technical director, technical ability and professionalism should be the first, able to solve problems in the work, enough execution is the first. Also do not in the interview time out of the paper, let people write a few lines of code on the spot, for excellent technology This is not flattering, at least at home. Professional people talk about 5 minutes to know what is the color of each other, if you do not understand the technology also out of the test paper is more boring, maybe a lot of big companies have papers or something, but here is the start-up company, do not have too much red tape.

2. Product category talent, products such things more than technology value talent, this kind of thing is very virtual, there is no strict definition and standards for you to carry out. Most of the products on the market are prototypes, studying the size and position of a button. It's not that these things don't matter, but these are really not souls. So what good product workers, the specific explanation is much more complicated. There are many things involved, everyone's point of view may be different, here is only good product workers will usually have those performance, can be the most reference in the interview.

A. Product Manager level and work experience has no absolute relationship, do not look for the internet is too old, of course, not to say the younger the better, but the internet belongs to young and energetic people, age too big thinking has great limitations, of course, the age of small pattern Tucson broken.

B. Good product managers will know that many areas of things, although not very in-depth, but a lot of things have great interest. Talk to him you will think he knows a lot, read a lot, reading, watching movies, sports and so on.

C. Good product managers have strong interpersonal skills and coordination skills, the nature of the work, you chat with him if the speech vague, the meaning of expression is not clear basic can also be ignored. But if you speak with a kind of rhetoric and a sense of hype, that person is either a jerk or an idiot.

D. Some of the classic books or writings in the industry must have been studied, at least to know the core concept. such as "Out of Control", "Long Tail theory", "free mode" and so on, are the most revered things in the domestic internet companies in recent years, if these do not know can pass off. Having said so much, Mr Jobs's view of the product is "taste". Do not use the appearance of discrimination, because many artists look sloppy, but a mouth chat can thoroughly expose the person has no taste.

Startups are not likely to come up with such a professional, so good (here is the real thing, don't discuss it). Therefore, the membership of the growth, self-motivated is also very important. Of course, for the start-up team, the most important thing is executive power.

Some people may feel the void, how can ask so high, because here is said "excellent" entrepreneurial team AH. Finally, the excellent entrepreneurial team members of their own high demand, they will continue to grow, until become jobs, become Bill Gates.