The Morpheus » hiring http://themorpheus.com Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:09:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Hire the smartest people – For Free http://themorpheus.com/2008/10/hire-the-smartest-people-for-free/ http://themorpheus.com/2008/10/hire-the-smartest-people-for-free/#comments Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:31:42 +0000 guglanisam http://blog.morpheusventure.com/2008/10/hire-the-smartest-people-for-free/

MVP portfolio company SutraHR recently launched SutraJobs.com, a new job board focused only on “Startup and Emerging companies”.  The Job board is another extension of Sutra’s vision of becoming the leading people solutions company with exclusive focus on “Startups and Emerging Companies”, Sutra will be launching more initiatives like this in future.

As an employer all you need to do is sign-up for a FREE account and complete the profile for your startup. You can upload all relevant information that an potential employee looks for in a start/emerging company.

  • Details about the founders
  • Vision of the company
  • What are you building
  • Funding details
  • Photos / Videos of the company
  • and more

A simple to dashboard can be used to create new job postings and manage them. The response from startups and candidates has been pretty good so far. So if you are hiring for your startup / emerging company go ahead give it a spin.

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]]> http://themorpheus.com/2008/10/hire-the-smartest-people-for-free/feed/ 3 Startup Essentials: Hire the right kind of people (and fire the wrong ones) http://themorpheus.com/2008/10/startup-essentials-hire-the-right-kind-of-people-and-fire-the-wrong-ones/ http://themorpheus.com/2008/10/startup-essentials-hire-the-right-kind-of-people-and-fire-the-wrong-ones/#comments Sun, 19 Oct 2008 14:05:43 +0000 guglanisam http://blog.morpheusventure.com/?p=85 This article is reproduced from Sameer’s Blog, my personal blog. It was originally written on 10-March-2008.  Original post can be found here:Startup Essentials: Hire the right kind of people (and fire the wrong ones)

Jason / Michael and bunch of other folks have been talking about kind of culture startups should have, to be able to save every penny and march towards success.

As we all know people are the the most fundamental ingredients for every startup and everything else is the function of the kind of people you have.

Based on my experiences, one of the biggest and sustainable cost/time saving can come from hiring the right kind of people (or firing the wrong ones).

Within a team (or the company) there are two types of goals:

  • Team goals
  • Personal goals

There are bound to be times when team goals and personal goals will conflict. You want to have people who will 90% of the time go with team goals. Get these people and keep them (no matter what it takes).If you have people who are always picking personal goals over the team goals, spot them, provide them the feedback , if they dont shape up – FIRE THEM.

]]> http://themorpheus.com/2008/10/startup-essentials-hire-the-right-kind-of-people-and-fire-the-wrong-ones/feed/ 0 Joining a pre-VC startup http://themorpheus.com/2008/10/joining-a-pre-vc-startup/ http://themorpheus.com/2008/10/joining-a-pre-vc-startup/#comments Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:17:56 +0000 guglanisam http://blog.morpheusventure.com/?p=70 This article is reproduced from Sameer’s Blog, my personal blog. It was originally written on 25-October-2006, during my days @ madhouse. Original post with all comments can be found here: Joining a pre-VC startup

Madhouse is talking to a number of exceptionally talented individuals for senior/middle management positions. Some of them have expressed apprehensions around joining at lower than market salaries and the risk of being associated with a company at a startup mode.Here are some of the thoughts I have been sharing with them. I would love hear some experiences, thoughts from the community.

Joining a pre-VC startup is not only a job or a career choice; it’s a lifestyle choice. This is truer for folks who join in early and join as part of the early management team (senior/middle). It is an opportunity for the brave, for the fighters and for a select few.

It offers an amazing opportunity to make significant contribution towards building of an organization in its formative period. The job responsibility is extremely demanding and challenging with relatively less support systems; a lot of untouched, challenging problems to solve; some of the most talented people to work with; a lot of energy in the air; a culture which believes it is fine to make mistakes. It offers an opportunity to rise fast, faster than most of your peers, provided you perform and live up to the challenges of the startup lifestyle, culture and speed at which things move.

People who can make a difference at this stage will be people, who believe in the success of the venture, the opportunity, the team, the philosophy of the organization. These are the people who will form the DNA of the company. People who will be hired or will join at this stage will not do so for the current financial benefits. That’s not the key decision making criteria. They know that they will be more than compensated financially, with the salary revisions and the stock options.

Along with all that comes career growth, various kind of learning, experience to go through the grueling startup pains and coming out a winner; a fighter.

Later on, when the company gets VC financing , though the challenges still remain the tone; the color; the intensity of the challenges change. The pace of evolution of the culture of the organization slows down. The number of ESOPs for similar positions reduces substantially. The opportunity to lay the founding blocks may no longer be there.

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