RE: "Sorry you're not the right fit" - After "all is fine" for 4 weeks

["Leonard C. Porrello" <Leonard -dot- Porrello -at- SoleraTec -dot- com>]

I wonder if there are any studies that correlate per capita man-hours
worked with success in startups.

My guess is that there is an inverse correlation between per capita
man-hours worked and success. I suspect that startups that require
employees to _regularly_ work 10-12 hours a day are most likely to fail.
I say this because those types of hours are inevitably the result of
poor planning and/or under-funding.

And just to be clear, I would deliberately draw a contrast between
relatively healthy organizations that have predictable crunch times
during which extra hours are needed (and remunerate employees
accordingly) and those that are always in firefighting/overtime mode. It
is the latter that, I think, are a bad bet.

In the absence of statistical data, I wonder how many of you have worked
long or insane hours for a startup only to see the startup fail, and how
many have worked for startups that have actually succeeded (and,
therefore, provided exceptional remuneration).

I've been in two failed startups. One required insane hours and the
other did not. I am currently in a startup that does not require insane
hours; we have a great product and things are looking very promising.

Leonard


-----Original Message-----
From: "Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
Subject: Re: "Sorry you're not the right fit" - After "all is fine"
	for 4 weeks

" ... and putting in 10-12 hour days while everyone wonders
whether the next product release is going to make or
break a fledgling company."

Also agreed, but this doesn't seem like so much a matter of people
skills as it does an overall attitude, willingness to do your part to
fill a need, and ability to care about what goes on around you.


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