Startup People
March 1, 2007 – 12:15 amI was able to attend the PaidContent.org Seattle Mixer tonite. It was great to run into old faces dating back to my early days in Seattle at encoding.com (later known as Loudeye). One point brought home again is that startup people are startup people. The craziness, chaos and adrenaline rush that working at and with startups attracts certain people and those people tend to work again and again at startups.
Startups are not for the faint of heart and they are not for everyone. I have hired plenty of people over the last decade who wanted to work at startups but weren’t meant for them. At the same time, startup people are not corporate or mature company people. It takes a different breed to work and thrive within a known entity with mores, structure and lots of daily rituals. I came out of that world a long time ago and am glad to have realized that work environment is not for me. Startup people or mature company people are not any better then the other, they are just different.
So before you rush to join a startup - ask yourself - are you a startup person?
