Building Your Startup Team | Gregory Shepard | Minute Mentor

With regards to building your team, the concept of making sure that you analyze skill versus will is really important. Their ability to do it and their want to do it are 2 completely separate things. This is incredibly important as you build your company because a lot of people hire people based on their skills. So they look at the resume, they look at where they are, and they go, yes, This person is fit, but that doesn't mean that they're the right conceptual person that you want that has a consciousness of a startup. I see startup companies go out and hire rock stars from big companies that cost a lot of money, but they don't know how to roll up their sleeves and actually be a practitioner, actually roll up their sleeves and do the work. Most of the time, these people are used to delegating to other team members. You just don't need those kind of people right now. If you're a startup, you need to focus on getting things done.