Dream team + market

Agenda
1. 5 stages &
2. 10 steps towards the perfect team
3. Going to the market in 5 steps adjourning
performing
norming
storming
forming
 Looking for

Non- True
Doubters Believers
believers believers

I like it , but I’m pessimist…

We can actually
there’s no way what if this Let us do it! J
do it! J
we can do this happens? L
1. Skills & personality
• Soft skills • Hard skills
• Resilient
• Focused • Coding
• Open-minded • Testing
• Competitive • Design
• Determined
• Creative thinking • Accounting
• Problem-solving-oriented • Appliance
• Decision making skills • Human Resources
• Initiative
• Communication skills
• Legal
• Teamwork-oriented • Sales
• Adaptability to new situations • Marketing
Skills and personality
Structure: clarity & organization

Technical: facts and solving problems

Action: adrenaline, hitting goals & hero

Relationship: interact, synergy

Skills and personality
• Practical activity
• Go to https://www.patrickbetdavid.com/wp-
content/uploads/2015/10/4-Personality-Types.pdf
• Learn about each personality individually
• Establish the personality type of each member of your
team, by discussing, debating and concluding in your
team
• You need a bit of each in your team!
• Based on the team’s skills and personalities,
assign a suitable task to each team member accordingly
2. Vision vs money

Based on what your team-mate would look for, find the right role/position for
her/him
3. At least two options

If you only have one option wrt one person’s role,

all the burden could not be split, distributed,
commented, simplified
(consider the skills & personality))
4. Do not relax
What looks right might turn into something that you
didn’t think about or you didn’t expect.
Do not be fooled by yourself!
5. Raise the standards
• Do what needed

And

• … move on
6. Common set of values & principles
• Hard work
• Care for your health… work-life balance
• Treat people right
• Mutual appreciation and respect
• Say please/thank you
• Trust
• Friendship

Do not compromise the important things

7. Long term plan & test
• Look for the long-term vs short-term thinker
• Test your team under various situations s.t. they can
handle any type of crisis
8. Be all IN!
• Believers always have a place
• Be sure everybody is involved
• Be careful with how the team is evolving (slide 14)
• Keep an eye open to identify what might be wrong with your team
(slide 15)
9. Look for the well-being of the team
• Invest in social relations & communication development
• (Train employees for the skills needed for collaboration): look for
and take care about common goals, the reason behind the team’s
existence, the methods used to resolve conflicts, the importance of
diversification and program management abilities.
• Encourage team events
10. Spot the things that might do/be wrong
• Lack of commitment - either to the other team members or to the project itself
• Shortage of decision making
• Incapacity to resolve conflicts or find solutions as a group, which might lead to
diminished performance.
• Inadequate communication s.t. members are unable to reach an understanding
• Absence of creativity - limited talents, limited innovation and possibly wasted
opportunities.
• There are no effective leadership skills. Great teamwork cannot be achieved
without proper management. Leaders must know what to do and how, so the
team can work.
Towards defining the market
• How will you go to the market – in 5 steps
How will you go to the market? – Problem (1)
• What’s the Problem?
• Who suffers because of it? Who needs a solution?
• How do you & your team propose to solve it?
• What’s the best existing solution?
• What makes this solution
inadequate/improvable/perfectible?
• Why is your solution better than what there already exists
om the market?
How will you go to the market? – Costs (2)
• How much will it cost you to solve the problem?
• Whose help will you need?
• People
• Headquarters
• Equipment
• Technologies
• Who will pay for your solution?
• persona
• How much?
• Cost schemes
• Will more people pay over time?
How will you go to the market? – Customers (3)
• How many of them are there? Where are they?
• Neighbourhood
• City
• County
• Country
• world
• Who are they?
• How will you find them?
• Communication channels
• Can you convince them?
• How?
• How long would it take?
• Does it pay the effort?
• Can you test your solution before taking it to the market?
How will you go to the market? – Market
players (4)
• Who else is trying to solve the same problem?
• How many of them are here?
• How do they solve the problem?
• What is their business model?
• What can you learn from them?
• Why can’t they do what you are doing?
• Do you see any collaboration possible?
• Who would benefit more from such a collaboration?
How will you go to the market? – Seed (5)
• If somebody would give you money, how quickly will
you spend it?
• How would you use them?
• Technologies?
• People?
• Networking + lobby?
• How many years will you use these money?
• How do you plan to return / invest capital?