CHAPTER 3

Building a Team

Introduction

It’s the team that makes or breaks the business.

Your MVP might be great. The market might need it. The potential could be huge. Investors might be lining up. But if you do not have the team to implement your idea, then the business will go nowhere.

If you read the traditional start-up literature, that is, primarily by people who haven’t actually done it but will tell you what they think you should do, you will be told you should hire now for the following roles:

Business development and marketing

Finance and accounting

Manager of operations and operations person

Human resources

Operations associate

Marketing jack-of-all trades

Salesperson

Writer

Product manager/engineers (for tech businesses) ...

Get Zero to $10 Million now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.