We've spoken with hundreds of people in the last year about how they recruit and build their team. One of the common threads that has run through these conversations is how unorganized most people are about keeping track of folks they've reached to about joining their companies. This isn't surprising as we too have been those unorganized company executives in the past and definitely felt the pain of not having the right information in front of us about potential candidates.
So you have a few dollars of angel money or venture capital. Your product just won a startup competition. Users actually seem to be digging it. You might even have a business model. Life is gooooood. Except for one thing...
Professional athletes take their equipment extremely seriously. So do entertainers. But when it comes to business we often fly by the seat of our pants. We start using a piece of software and we're hesitant to switch from what we know, even if we realize we're leaving productivity on the table. And we're rarely systematic about choosing which tools we use to get our jobs done. And this means we spend longer hours working with sub-optimal results.
When you think of the most important person in your company who immediately jumps to mind? Your CEO? Your top salesperson? Your star engineer?
If there's one thing we're passionate about here at Entelo, it's doing whatever we can to support growing companies. Fast-growth firms are the engines that power our economy. After talking to hundreds of people who are running these companies about how difficult it was to hire people, especially for certain types of positions, we decided we'd do our part to help fix this problem.