My 2 Co-Founders Are Being Head-Hunted By Apple, Google and Facebook. Advice?
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Re: My 2 Co-Founders Are Being Head-Hunted By Apple, Google and Facebook. Advice?
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Re: My 2 Co-Founders Are Being Head-Hunted By Apple, Google and Facebook. Advice?
#3Let them hand over to youtheir stake in your startup, and find other cofounders / employees.
Re: My 2 Co-Founders Are Being Head-Hunted By Apple, Google and Facebook. Advice?
#4It's a good thing. It means your co-founders already have a bit of job security. With that in mind, you guys are ready to stick together and keep fighting. :)
Re: My 2 Co-Founders Are Being Head-Hunted By Apple, Google and Facebook. Advice?
#5If they're are sure as you are that your idea is going to make it big, they have an incentive to stay rather than go work for Google or Facebook, because they have a lot to gain from something huge. If they don't, you already have a problem, never mind the head hunting, because then they don't really believe in the idea. Then you'll have to incentivize them in the short term with cash probably (ie pay them more than Google or Facebook will), or realize yourself that maybe the idea isn't that good.
Re: My 2 Co-Founders Are Being Head-Hunted By Apple, Google and Facebook. Advice?
#6Get a high fidelity prototype and quickly. Nothing better to keep them interested than a working model.
Re: My 2 Co-Founders Are Being Head-Hunted By Apple, Google and Facebook. Advice?
#7The best people always have many opportunities. It's like Joel said in 2006 [1]: the good ones never "hit the market" because they simply pick up the phone and call in the outstanding offers.
Don't fret. View it as validation you've got a good team. For all of you, if your startup is successful the opportunities from Apple, Google and Facebook will only get better. If the startup doesn't go so well, those offers will still be there.
1 http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FindingGreatDeveloper...
Re: My 2 Co-Founders Are Being Head-Hunted By Apple, Google and Facebook. Advice?
#8It's all part of the game. If your co-founders are any good at all they should be getting head-hunted.
You just have to keep making sure the idea pushes forward as fast as possible. If it stalls or the idea becomes uninteresting then the easier it will be for them to jump ship.
Re: My 2 Co-Founders Are Being Head-Hunted By Apple, Google and Facebook. Advice?
#9That's great news. It would be a lot more worrying if you were their last choice for a partnership. Really, count your blessings. And as long as they're being headhunted but they haven't accepted you're in good shape.
It's like dating a very pretty woman. You can worry all the time that she's got lots of suitors and you can destroy your relationship by being jealous of all kinds of things that you imagine might happen or are happening. But the only thing that matters is that you're together and she apparently chose you, even if you're a bit insecure about why it is you over all those other options out there.
That would say more about you than it would about them ;)
Be happy, make them proud and I'm sure they'll make you proud as well.
Re: My 2 Co-Founders Are Being Head-Hunted By Apple, Google and Facebook. Advice?
#10Let them hand over to youtheir stake in your startup, and find other cofounders / employees.
Being headhunted is not something that you actively go and invite, hence the 'hunted' part of the word. It means that his partners have very little say in that happening, if any at all.
The fact that they've pledged their allegiance to the start-up in question speaks volumes about them and I think your suggestion completely misses the point here.