HR Issues in Start up!
Start Up Saturday, Mumbai
RatanKK
April 11, 2009

Introduction
Guidelines

Guidelines
 Make Notes
 You will need to answer some
questions along the way.
 Questions (Please Challenge me!)
 Make it interactive.
 What is relevant to all.
 Sense of Humour

Introduction
Topic – HR Issues in Star Up!
Me (QO)
You and your Context here.(QW)
Guidelines

Topic
HR
Issues
Start Up 

HR Issues in Start Up
What Category?
 Business Critical – Client & Revenue
 Organization Critical - Repeatability &
Reproducibility
What you can do?
 Process Efficiencies
 Technology Enabling
Why? – Survive, Sustain & Grow

HR Issues in Start Up
Problem of a stable
Organization.
 Human Resource Dept.
 What are the other Dept.?
For Start Up, Business is more
important.

HR Issues in Start Up
Start Up is not an organization.
In Start Up, most often, there
are no Departments.
Everybody is aligned to
Business
There are only PEOPLE.
Who are they? (QW)

People – Who r they?
Entrepreneurs
 Founders
 Founding Team
Others
 Clients, Bankers
 VCs
 Media, Society

Start Up – I Believe
“I Believe” Entrepreneur
 Originating from Passions (P)
 Driven by Motivations (M)
 Guided by your Self Beliefs (B)
Similar “I Believe Mode”
 Founders – I-ers
Write your PMB! – QW

Start Up – Idea
Idea aligned with your Passion
Idea acceptable to your
Motivation
Idea with a value proposition
 Alleviating &/or Enhancing a Pain
Idea with a commercial value –
Proof of Concept (3QW)

People & Idea
Same people, different Idea.
Same Idea, Different People.
Start Up is driven by people and
not the idea.
Star Up needs to sell “I Believe”
first, then the Idea.

Start Up – We Believe
Founding team.
 Similar “I Believe” & Exciting Idea
 Context & Relevance
Team constantly looks up to
Entrepreneurs “I Believe”.
“We Believe”
If erosion of E-I Believe, or their own
context and relevance, “We Believe”
erodes. (QW)

Start Up – We Believe
Go To Market
Responsible Areas Emerge
Process & Benchmarks evolve
Technology deployment
happens
Repeatability & Reproducibility

Start Up – They Believe
Go To Market
You win Clients
You win Bankers / VCs
You win Vendors / partners
You have more of “I Believe” & “We
Believe”
Start Up becoming an Organization

Start Up – People
I Believe Stage
We Believe Stage
They Believe Stage
Foundation for building right team,
therefore, Organization.
Driving BUSINESS and Building
Organization, in that order.
Enough of Both, you will have ‘HR
Issues’ 

Any Questions
I Believe / We Believe / They
Believe

All the Best
A4 Paper / Name / Email Id
Thoughts / Feelings
Feedback
Legible
Ratankk@gmail.com

End Of PPT
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Start Up – People
Idea is incidental & Improvable
Check your ‘I Believe’ & ‘We
Believe’ constantly. By Others
too.
‘Good to Great’ - Level 5
Leadership