This week I've been lucky enough to spot a tweet by Mark Suster, resurfacing an older article he published at www.cloudave.com - Is it Time for You to Earn or to Learn?
Working on my own project over the past few months, I've often asked myself this question. Seems like my answer is painfully easy - right now I have a burning desire to solve this problem (online identity theft, if you must know), and being that I'm consumed by it to the point of loosing sleep thinking about it, I guess I have no alternative.
It is time for me to just do it.
When I'm trying to recruit companions to this great undertaking, I'm often puzzled by their approach.
They all LOVE the idea, the model etc. and ALSO want a secure job, good salary and benefits, equal equity share, no vesting, no investment required on their account, big titles, no commitment until serious funding comes in, etc. etc.
I wish I could just give anyone whatever they wanted and see this project come through.
I also wish people would make up their mind.
Do they want to see the problem solved? Do they want to be a part of the solution?
Do they want to learn or earn?
BTW (if you have no time to read the article)
- in the cited article, earn roughly relates to joining a startup early, while learn relates to joining late when there's less risk and also less reward potential.
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