Companies are entities founded for the purpose of making money for their stakeholders, including employees. They are often complex, beyond the typical revenue generating activities that they are associated with. They employ revenue enabling resources like accountants, lawyers, marketers, cleaning staff, security guards, etc.
For many, these activies are considered fluff, or “overhead.” Sure companies have them, but how effective are they? Are they simply added beurocracy to justify being a bonified “company”? Why should the money I make in my revenue generating work go to anyone else but me? How confident am I that the money is being spent efficiently? For most of us, their activies are unknown and therefore not fully justified in our minds.
This leads to the believe that the person could do x, y, and z better themselves, without the seemingly unnecessary overhead of the other business layers. Often they can generate revenue themselves on their own, though eventually they too will hire all those supplementary resources as their venture grows.
If they are successful, it wasn’t the lack of those other resources that helped the venture in the beginning, but the passion of it’s founders.
With this in mind, I advocate the virtues of working in your current job and excelling in it through being passionate about what you are doing, rather then feeling like you need to be independent to be successful.
Having started and run a profitable startup in the past, I can tell you how difficult it is to grow and maintain. Statistically 1 in 20 companies fail in their first year. Rather then rolling the dice on your own, each time you begin work for a new company you are already ahead by choosing a company better then 95% of other ventures that never made it. You should realize that all those other business work in in synergy for the overall success of the company and are infact as necessary as direct revenue generating activities.
You mean people gon’t give their 100% at work because they do not have a sense of ownership for their workplace? It does sort of make sense. But hopefully you are not discouraging startups.. if I am reading this right, that is.
Well I am saying people don’t always give 100% at work because they feel as if their extra effort doesn’t not translate to a proportional benefit since it is spread between those auxiliary resources.
And yes, I am actually discouraging startups for those people who are doing it simply because they feel as though they do not need those auxiliary activities and that they can do it all on their own.
Certainly if your idea is good, and you can build a strong balanced team, go for it, though look before you leap