Nowadays there are no more solo entrepreneur. Now, more than ever, each individual relies to the power of crowd, or the masses, in order to produce either products or services that has high quality, robust and secured.
I am now understood the power behind the teamworks which can produce wonder, many times over if we compare with the output of single individual. Anyhow, comes to the next question - how do we manage the crowd? Especially if the crowd exists in your company? Even 3 is a crowd, what more if you have 10, 20 or 100 people in your organization?
Taking lessons from the Atlassian company, which grew from 2 men company to multinational company operates in few major continents right now, it is best to create culture to support the growth of working communuty within the company.
And the way i look at it is by redefining the culture as a set of expectation guided by founding principles for whom their properties are held true by the community members. It had to start from the founders. I believe in managing people to one goal, it has to start with the reason why the company starts its journey. If anyone lost this, or if anyone does not get the hang of this essence, then it is best to remove such person as soon as possible. We need to keep everyone's personal goal align with the company's goals so that the momentum can be focused and executed well.
When I started SimpanKira a few months ago, the aim is to make accounting easy to learn and fun to do even for those who do not posses accounting skill. The enjoyable experience of discovery in learning the accounting while doing the job has to be the utmost priority for the apps to be successful in the market. Then I realize that this reason alone is not enough to make a compelling argument for other co founders to join me and building this amazing apps. It also must have something that they always look up to.
So i made it clear to everybody that we do this and aim for USD 15 million valuation in the next 3 years. Have I ever achieved that valuation in my previous startup? No way Jose! But that number seems to be sexy for us. To sacrifice and to put the rest on hold so we can rally together for this reason. USD 15 million could mean anything to others, but to me it means I could establish my scholarship program for talented students who are coming from poor family. I have been keeping this dream since 2007. For once i want to do it at bigger scale so I can bring impact to other people's life.
Hence, in order to make everything works well in moving towards the same goal, I must express myself clearly in terms of expectation and have a clear vision for the company. For anyone who cannot take the heat or comply with the expectations, he or she must go and make space for others who are enthusiastic to achieve something greater beyond themselves.
Hey, life is too short for doing small things. Let's do something and amplify it to 1,000,000 times over. All this can be done if we manage the expectations well and sincerely to others in our organization.
