If the Shoe Fits: Startup Passion vs. Specific Passion
by Miki SaxonA Friday series exploring Startups and the people who make them go. Read all If the Shoe Fits posts here
Who do you want to hire?
The person who passionately wants to work for a startup or the person who passionately wants to work for your startup?
Think about it.
Who will contribute more?
- The person who always wanted to work in a startup; whose passion is engaged by the mere thought of working in the startup environment; or
- the person who craves the solution your startup proposes even if she never recognized the problem; whose passion is engaged specifically by the idea of contributing to that particular solution no matter where it is done.
Some experts will tell you that it is the drive to work in a startup—any startup—that is most important.
I disagree.
Just as the person who joins a company for money will leave for more money the person who joins because it’s a startup will leave for a sexier startup.
But the person who joins because of a deep, driving passion to be part of that specific solution will stay and fight the good fight long past the time that Hell freezes over.
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