Poetic Dilemma for Indian Startups
…I wanna startup…
…But nobody showsup…
…If somebody showsup…
…I can startup…
Thats how Nag@Startups.in summed up his reaction to this comment from me- “good people don’t want to work for startups and for making a good product, you can’t do without good people ”
To get the context, check out comments no 8 & 9 from my previous post - Where are the Indian software product startups?.
Well said Nag, I can see your pain in your poetry…
9 comments
we’ll i recently learnt a trick. get them on board as a consultant. keep them involved and then use them when you run into a problem. once they are hooked, you can always convince them
Rajiv,
Thats a good thought but the approach is not scalable. You might be able to do it once or twice but in todays scenario of fast employee attritions, you are likely to be in the job market quite often, prospecting for talented employees.
amit
well, at some time the chicken has to hatch
I can identify with Nag. We’re having groppling with the same issue.
The last para of comment 8 in the prev post puts it best. Now, we are just holding out doing _anything_ substantial unless we _first_ get enough talented people interested in the concept. Though that is slowing us a lot.
Maybe its better to sail aforth later in a Ship, than to race full speed into deep ocean and find yourself clinging to a rowboat!
Animesh.
Of course its a Catch-22 situation!
But its one of the challenges of becoming an enterpreneur other wise how can one differentiate oneself from ‘code-monkeys’ (as you mentioned in the previous post).
Amit et al.
Agree on your comment about Rajiv’s thought. But in a a way we’ve been doing something similar as well by using offshore/freelance talent to work around this catch-22 situation & it infact has been going pretty well to an extent.
It might not work for all the projects but it atleast does help in a way.
Regards,
Nag /at/
Startups.in
Completely agree with Nag’s views, hiring is by far the most difficult nut to crack, even more difficult than getting business!!
Amit:
I think I must have missed this post from you. This IS pretty much the BIGGEST hurdle to startup innovation in India. We have have been mainly working on Rails and PHP and its unbelievable how difficult it is to get .NET and Java guys to see the benefits of working with the latest technologies. They seem to want to stick to technologies where they can switch jobs every year and get a jump in the salary.
Besides this, I think the fundamental excitement about working for startups is not as widespread, atleast amongst the technical community. Lets hope this changes sooner than later - but I wonder what is the catalyst for this change?
The Startup concept is still nascent in India, people want to go with big & established companies but I suppose someone has to show the money like google and other startups have done in US.
- Vicky
http://www.startupnews.in
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