"And then there is the most dangerous risk of all — the
risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy
yourself the freedom to do it later." - Randy Komisar
What happened this week really frightens me. It felt like we are really
transforming a complete business model and it seems to work. I will just drop one story
of this evening. Being introduced by a partner as a solution to find Java Developers to X we both received a mail from X at 6:45
PM: “For your information, our company's policy
is to approach candidates directly not through recruiting agencies.”
So I answered quickly: “ hi X, It's quite easy.
We run a network that, among of other benefits, has a talent system that
connects you to the people you are searching for and you deal with them
directly. No intermediate. The engine and business model disrupts the
complete classic recruitment and broker market.
And best of all ... it's for free. Our primary goal is to create a
connected network of companies that supply customer solutions.” .
At 19:42 I received a
request to meet next Tuesday. It’s really amazing. Easy as well.
Yesterday In London we
met 2 recruiters and hopefully one partner in crime and a company offering
enterprise search solutions. They were really amazed by the win-win-win that
was offered to them.
The developers are doing a great job in connecting the
front- and backend and we have attraction from big integrators. Even before we
really start off. Having satellites in different European countries with local
empowered catalysts is a pretty good way to start.
It is important because as a “startup” we want to move fast
and make decisions as soon as we see that they are necessary. Whether it’s
killing a feature which is not getting much engagement or introducing a new
support channel, it can be easy to put these things off. Especially big changes
like adjusting our pricing or making the model completely transparent.
I try to weave this notion of doing what I love and what I’m
passionate about and believe in, right into the culture of my favorite IT
Business. I will stretch everyone involved and remind them that they can do
whatever we want, even turn “normal” models upside down in the whole world in
one day, if needed. And once we are there, you will realize it wasn’t that big
of a deal, and you I will push you in so many other disruptive models too.
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