Since August of 2008, I have been working on a start up initiative outside of my traditional Vann Group duties. The original focus was simply to leverage our unique in-house capabilities and launch a recruiting offering for the vastly under served Reliability Engineering and Predictive Maintenance industry.
As I began to dive into the project I was amazed to find that not only was our use of organizational development best practices rather unique, the market for recruitment services was incredibly fragmented and the delivery model broken. The effort grew and evolved into something exciting and what we believe will be a disruptive and scalable solution. Of course, building something new is never easy, and along the way our team has learned our share of lessons in bringing the idea to market.
Over the next couple of weeks, I will be posting about those lessons learned. Some of them will no doubt be familiar, which in hindsight makes them frustrating. At the same time, there are some unique insights that I hope will help other entrepreneurs on their start up path.
As I post, I welcome any feedback and insights about your own experiences.
