This is a fun exercise: Who are you working with right now - either in a full time gig or in your consulting practice - that you could throw together to run a company starting tomorrow? I have a short list of people that I like for this, but don't know that I have all of the necessary players to run a startup. For example, I think I have all of the technical and sales heads, but not the marketing, financial, and general support people.
Who are you missing? And why is that, given that we work for or with already-functioning companies?
Tue, 06/17/2008 - 14:40
For me, it would be a niche technology consulting firm. The niche depends on a lot of things. But once you remove the very-very-specialists from the mix, you need a financial/CFO-type, a make-it-happen/CEO-type, blahblahblah/sales types, blingblingbling/marketing types... And I think you DO have a company in your head, at least under the surface.
Mon, 06/16/2008 - 19:32
I never really wanted to think about this before now, but now that I am...I don't even know what business I would WANT to start.
The end.