The A team

There comes a stage in the life of every startup when the second line begins delivering on its own. This from a founder’s perspective is true labor of love.

When we started this venture one of the first challenges was to gather together the motley crew that we managed to. Like most startups what we assembled together was a highly charged, motivated and passionate bunch of folks with limited domain expertise. The initial months were spent in the painful process of bridging the understanding gap. The next few invested in helping them learn the ropes on their own.

While all this was happening and you were also trying to swim through multiple operational challenges. Finalizing and then stabilizing the relationship with the accounting firm, grappling with hiring challenges for projects, running from pillar to post acquiring and managing clients and ensuring internal and external legal compliances is all bandwidth sucking rigmarole. All this while you were secretly hoping to discover the cheat guide to developing your second line team.

And then comes one day, when all of a sudden, almost miraculously – the second line begins firing!

This happened for us in the month of January. Hari and Syed just booked their first revenues independently – and handsome revenues at that. Vishal, forever our go-to-man, yet again rose to the occasion and helped build an on-ground team with lightning alacrity. This on ground team delivered phenomenally on 2 of our most critical operating parameters. On both of them we delivered in a month, what we had achieved in the last 7.

All of a sudden from not knowing where we were headed to feeling as if everything is falling in place – it’s a huge transition! The single biggest attributable reason for that is the sheer thrill of the A team delivering and showing strong promise of improving on it consistently here on.

But in the life of angerpreneur even the most superlative achievement creates another challenge. Now all of a sudden angerpreneur finds a tremendous release in bandwidth. Angerpreneur isn’t necessarily prepared to put it to constructive use!

p.s. Angerpreneur has on purpose spoken about team mates for the first time – result of detail-hungry readers.