Who are you in your venture team? The Entrepreneur, The Manager or The Technician.

The Entrepreneur is the dreamer living in the future. He or she is having great visions of how the company can develop in the future and constantly asks “what if…” and comes up with new ideas for improvement and change.

The Manager is more pragmatic and focused on planning and making order. He creates the systems of the organisations.

The Technician is the doer who likes to get things done. He is a hard-worker and pushes others to be more effective and move ahead.

In every venture team it is necessary to find a balance between the different roles, and if you are an individual entrepreneur it is important to balance your time between the three roles.

If you forget your Entrepreneur role, you will keep on doing the same things and miss new business opportunities. Your company simply won’t develop and grow.

If your forget the Manager role, you will get completely unorganized. Your accounting will be a mess, and you will lose the general overveiw. And you will probably waste to much time on looking for things. Furthermore you might have to rethink how to solve problems every time the appear, since you haven’t established routines. The Manager standardizes you different tasks, som when you grow, you will be able to make your employees do things in a standardized way.

The Entrepreneur get the ideas how to grow, but the Manager creates the system, that makes you able to grow.

Finally if you forget the Technician, you basically will not  be able so collect any invoices and get revenue. It is only the Technicians time that actually generates revenue.

On the other hand if you over do the different roles:

Overdoing the Entrepreneur will give you a lot of fantastic ideas but none of them ever turn into products and sales. You will just walk from idea to idea.

Overdoing the Manager til leave you with a clean desk and everything in perfect order – but nothing to manage.

Overdoing the Technician will keep you busy but with no idea where you are going and probably not being very effective even though you feel effective.

In short you may say, that Entrepreneurs make sure, that you are doing the right things, Managers make sure, that you are doing things right, and Technicians make sure, that you are doing somethings….

Building a strong team for the new venture is both a matter of finding the right people for the daily work and management, but also a matter of finding the right people to give advice and share their network.

More inspiration on building a team, the episode 4a podcast of Mark Julianos Entrepreneurship & Business Course gives good inspiraiton.

Beside the podcast, professor Juliano has put his PowerPoint-slides and an excersise-handout on his course material webpage.