Entrepreneur: Startup Hiring Myth #1
by Miki Saxon
Entrepreneurs, mompreneurs, solopreneurs, micropreneurs, partnerpreneurs, kidpreneurs, the list grows daily.
If you listen to the media these days the only career of merit is to be a somethingpreneur and that those who work for large companies should quit to start their own biz or be branded as losers.
I am taking this opportunity to state categorically, once and for all that that’s a crock.
Seriously.
There are millions of talented, driven, high producers who work happily in large companies of all kinds across the country.
They aren’t there because they are scared to do their own thing.
They aren’t there because they aren’t innovative or lack creativity.
They aren’t there because they are lazy, uncaring or stupid.
They don’t deserve to be labeled drudges or losers because they thrive in the corporate world.
They are the people who will buy or use the somethingpreneur products.
Their employers are the companies that will acquire or partner many of the somethingpreneur companies.
The somethingpreneur ecosystem would crash and burn without these companies and their employees.
The companies would crash and burn without those employees.
Somethingpreneurs couldn’t scale their companies without these people.
The idea that a person is better because they founded or work in a startup is hype; they are different, not worse or better—just different.
No matter the size of the company, it comes down to cultural fit.
Not just the company culture, but the specific culture propagated by the manager for whom they work.
It’s not just about risk-taking. The days when corporate size, unions, public service or professional degrees (doctors, lawyers) mitigated job risk are long gone.
It’s not even about a person’s accomplishments in their previous/current job.
It’s about what that person would do in your company’s culture and under your management.
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