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I think I'd feel more comfortable about it if they were honest. Obviously, they are salesmen and they are trying to 'sell' their business to you to attract you in, so there is going to be a degree of blagging going on. If this is you, I think you need to make a judgement call - is this person just hamming it up a bit but has potential, or is it just plain bullshitting.
I'm assuming you've seen Dragon's Den. I watched it in the early days when I was still self employed and over the years there have been a mix of completely honest people on there, right up to completely delusional. The delusional were usually taken to bits fairly quickly with a couple of key questions, same sort of stuff that you'd be asked if you were sat in front of the bank manager. Might be worth watching a couple of the earlier episodes from before people worked out what the formula was.
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Obviously, they are salesmen and they are trying to 'sell' their business to you to attract you in, so there is going to be a degree of blagging going on.
Thanks for your input, and yeah it was me.
I agree, I just found it odd and illogical that a startup founder would try to hire someone to develop a team/capability, but then talk like they already have the team and capability in place. There’s no shame in it, it’s a startup after all.
I’ll check out Dragon’s Den 👍
Eseman
I have a question about start-ups and business culture. No identifying details so I’ll speak my mind freely: when founders are hiring their first, core team members, to what degree is it expected/customary for them to blag (for want of a better word) about how established the business is?
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