Start-up Teams

It always amazes me when I meet tech start-up founders. 

Nearly every one has a unique characteristic or some interesting story.  It is something along the way in the course of human development (imho) where an entrepreneur grows and transform their dna through life's ups and downs and sideways.  I strongly believe I am in the midst of a few currently that has the ability to literally change the entire way you interact and share information.  I am excited to learn the technology and how it can be useful to everyone - literally a market of the planet from young toddlers up to elderly.  Every demographic actually possesses a valid and defensible market opportunity.  Of course, as a young, 'cash-is-king' team of innovators they know the strategy is always going to work when built from focused market intelligence and building a solution based sales model to suit industry and particular sector needs.  There are spanning market landscapes throughout 8-10 critical categories of opportunity to leverage and use the software to solve high-value problems.  In such industry segments, there is an evolution and preferred disposition towards information technology growth and user adoption including such industries or use-cases as Energy and Utilities, Cyber Security, NOCs, Intelligence, Military, Sales Teams, Physical Security, Management Dashboards, Federal Emergency Management and every side of the government on federal and local levels.  I will get into more depth on the software over the next few posts and we continue reading about all of the changing ways of communication, rapid instant sharing of critical data in real-time, object oriented dashboard collaboration.

Let's bring this home. 

So, with all that being said, I think it's interesting how things like this business idea go from start to jog to run to sprint.  It really is all about the people and not about the idea - which is often the reason why investors and VCs are often heard mentioning they have blindly, no product invested hundreds of millions in the same team.  That is the power of the team - to earn credibility and gain power through prominence achieved through hard work and constant communication, oh and get loads of cash from discussing an idea.  The most critical element and most important decision you will ever make is when you find a team of people equally as crazy about the same thing and willing to go fight for it.

That is when you do incredible things.  

That is how great teams win championships, mental imbalance, somehow balanced by the weight of the possessed.  So, the process of hiring, recruiting and finding the next star to help the business flourish is a critical activity and should be a team effort.  Everyone, no matter skill, position or seniority - needs to play a part early on.


Happy Selling.