Robust, by constitution.
We talk to a lot of startups every day.
Between those who contact us for work and who we meet in our coworking,
the question is always that: How can you not step on your feet? Aren't you fighting? The answer is also always the same: yes, we do it, but with a clear axiom in our head.
To each his own.
Welcome back Among the Notes, the safe space where people talk and tell each other, what it means on a personal level, to create a company at 30 years old, in my case Open.
Many young entrepreneurs this quarter will outline their plans for their future company. They will have to talk to their friends, soon partners, deal with difficult topics, have the courage to open up and get personal with them, sometimes argue, to lay the foundations of their company.
It seemed like the right time to tell you, then, about our structure and why at such a young age, we often hit outside for our size and strength.
Jokes about bellies postponed, the photos are old.
Stop by to see us to be proven wrong.
Today's Note will be accompanied by shots from our last activity together, a day of workshops both mental and fresh pasta, all together. Very nice.
Take the time to get to know each other (and argue!)
Yes, I know, it's tempting.
The myth of the overnight startup, of the business plan in the university dorm room and the next day we are online, that's it.
I don't wish you that.
Instead, I hope that, in addition to the product market fit, you will treat yourself to the people company fit, invented at the time. We are people and as such we are a mysterious and complex puzzle:
What may be perfect for us is not necessarily perfect for others, and just the opposite.
The hard core of society must be hard, and that's you.
For this reason, we ourselves have spent years testing, smelling and arguing, okay maybe even too much, but the corporate transition at that point seemed only a formality, making sure that both us and our product continued to work continuously, without a hitch.
Attention, this is a constant process, never stop talking to each other. Find time to stop and talk together in the daily frenzy, even with those who will work for you: new and external perspectives will be gold for making decisions.
Which if you haven't figured it out yet, it will be your real job.
Responsibility yes, but also possibilities
Building a company is like getting married
Any person in their middle age will tell you about your future plans. Especially fathers, with an ironic look at your mother.
And they are right, with the difference that with a company you will also have benefits. OK, I made a joke too.
I'm getting old.
Coming back to us, ask for all the necessary advice from accountants and labor consultants, and enter into the logic, unfortunately, often unnecessarily complex in our country.
Begin to see how a step that seems constricting is instead a powerful growth tool for your idea.
Get excited, because it's an important step, yes, but after your feet rest, you'll understand how new and exciting paths will open up in front of you.
To each his
At Aberto we like to create small sentences, concepts, to hang on to our people.
To each his own was one of the first fixed in the cork of our minds, but what does it mean?
It means that to create cohesive teams, you need to have the ability and the luck to generate groups of different people but in balance with each other.
If you did chemistry in high school, and you liked it a minimum, you'll remember of the balances of the solutions, And if you were a nerd, not like me because I have the tab open from where I just did command+c, of the Le Châtelier principle:
a principle of chemical thermodynamics, according to which every system tends to react to a modification imposed on it from outside, minimizing its effects. This principle applies only to systems that are in balance.
And so we were born from a group of small atoms with their own special characteristics, which become a new molecule, bringing well-defined roles and boundaries to society, which reduce friction and inevitably generate greater management speed.
If you learn to do it with your partners, then, it will be easier to continue doing it with the people you attract with your main molecule, employees and collaborators, with whom you will have to be a small entrepreneur chemist, to be able to associate together, generating fantastic teams in balance.
I hope this little note will be useful to you if you have important decisions on the horizon, remember to smile, the climbs stretch out in the face of entrepreneurship.
Good luck to everyone, see you in the next note.
Marco.
