In this class you will learn about gathering your initial team, working with your required professionals, planning for and then recruiting employees. We will also review the legal implications of the employer-employee relationship. For this topic area the Required Readings are essential.

OVERVIEW

Few businesses are really one-person businesses. Even those with no employees are still likely to need bookkeeping and accounting help, an attorney, and business allies. They should be considered part of your business team.

You don’t have to know everything and be everything and do everything to own your own business. You have to understand how to gather a team.

• You don’t have to live the numbers if you have somebody on the team who does.
• You don’t have to sell well if you have somebody on the team who does.
• You don’t have to know the industry inside out if you have somebody on the team who does.

DEFINITION

• 3 weeks to Startup, Chapter 8, Build Your Team; and Chapter 9, Manage Your Team
• The Plan-As-You-Go Business Plan, pages 107-113 on metrics; pages 156-161 budgeting and payroll
• The Art of the Start, Chapter 6, The Art of Recruiting

(Optional Reading)

• Gather Your Team (a blog post)

Online Videos

For this class, you are required to go through the web video presentations as follows:

1. Tim Berry:  Basic business numbers
   
2. Guy Kawasaki:  Guy Kawasaki on The Art of the Start