{"id":3682,"date":"2024-11-17T22:18:08","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T04:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/?p=3682"},"modified":"2024-11-17T22:18:08","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T04:18:08","slug":"startup-opportunity-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/3682","title":{"rendered":"Startup Opportunity Gains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a former startup founder and an employee or early contractor of five other startups, there are costs an benefits to joining a startup. But first, what is a startup? Investopedia says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The term &#8220;startup&#8221; refers to a company in the early stages of its operations. Startups are founded by one or more entrepreneurs who want to develop a product or service for which they believe there is demand.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Startups can be either bootstrapped (hard) or raise money (hard). But they are focused on growth. In my opinion, if a business isn&#8217;t scalable, it is not really a startup.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A laundromat: not a startup.<\/li>\n<li>Laundromat management software: startup.<\/li>\n<li>Being a real estate broker: not a startup.<\/li>\n<li>Building a tech focused real estate brokerage: startup.<\/li>\n<li>A web development consulting company: not a startup.<\/li>\n<li>A company building product that makes web development easier: startup.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The lines can be blurry of course; if you start a laundromat and make a custom app to improve operations, you can perhaps use that software as the foundation of a laundromat software startup.<\/p>\n<p>I know there is absolutely an opportunity cost to starting a startup, but I don&#8217;t want to focus on those. Buy me a beer sometime and I can chat with you about that.<\/p>\n<p>This growth is the key to the benefits. Because of the growth, you&#8217;ll learn a ton about a bunch of different parts of building a company. These can include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>devops<\/li>\n<li>hiring<\/li>\n<li>product<\/li>\n<li>creating process<\/li>\n<li>conflict resolution<\/li>\n<li>customer support<\/li>\n<li>sales<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course, what you learn depends on what stage you join a startup and the role you are hired for. But in my experience, especially at startups under one hundred employees, there&#8217;s so much work to be done that you can help almost anywhere. (If you are an engineer, talk to your manager before jumping into a sales call, though.)<\/p>\n<p>All of this is exposure you won&#8217;t get at a bigco.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, you need to ask yourself if that is what you want to do. Some people are happy building a system and business, while others are more content when embedded in a system which can make them productive.<\/p>\n<p>And even for the same person, you can be ready for different challenges at different times of your life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a former startup founder and an employee or early contractor of five other startups, there are costs an benefits to joining a startup. But first, what is a startup? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-startup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3683,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682\/revisions\/3683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}