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If you need a business person on your team, it's because you need business and you need to be a business, and that's what the business person should be doing. Marketing, closing deals, arranging funding, talking to the lawyers, talking to the accountants, doing HR. If they're really good they're also managing the business process, making sure everyone's happy, communicating and performing and on target. It's not actually multiple persons that you need on your team, it's different roles. The technical person, the product person, the management person, the visionary, the organized person, there's probably a dozen more personality traits that are helpful if not essential. They could all be in the same person, but it's more likely it's 2 or 3. They don't all need to be founders, but the more committed they are to the company, the better that aspect is reflected in the company, and the more succesful it might be. Google didn't need any marketing, they just needed engineers, so they hired engineers, and people who could hire engineers, and people who could manage engineers. By the time they needed something else they were already making so much money they could afford to motivate excellence by monetary compensation alone, not every start up has that luxury. |