Do you like when startups make pages with team members?
Ksusha
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I don't often see pages with a team in startups. And I thought, is it interesting to know about the team that builds a product?
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Дмитрий Исаев@easternleaves
I think it's neutral. As for me knowing about the team may be interesting for asking questions to members, or basically figuring out what count of people works on the product. And of course, it works as a trust factor.
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@easternleaves yeah,true! do you follow team members in twitter or ld?
@ksusha_golovchenko Yep. Especially if the team product matches my principles & tastes)
I think it's nice. Gives it a personal touch and shows that they stand behind what they do.
There are pros and cons. A pro is definitely that when you're looking for investors, you're trying to be as transparent as possible. A con is that early stage startups might have team members who won't stay long with the project, so it's kind of difficult to keep the team page up to date.
@geri_mate its weird right, because it's not that hard updating a page, but yet we find ourselves keeping team members on there that have left way too long and new ones way too late getting them added.
@nicholasjohnmartin Keeping the page updated might not bring as much value as the effort it takes. I saw some companies who handled it really well and others who can't be bothered to change pics and everything. I personally believe if you start to do it you should stick to it
This increases the degree of trust in the startup. Plus, I love it when startups post positive reviews of their work from existing customers. This also gives me confidence.
It's a good option when the company is hiring because can you see the diversity of team, well in my case this is important issue
@kevin_zepeda when you choose companies u always pay attention to the team members?
i neither for it nor against it. unless that team is providing a personal or 1on1 service, it's not all to much relative. but there is nothing wrong with it either
Thanks for kicking off this discussion, @ksusha_golovchenko!
I launched on PH last week and received this as (great) feedback from @florin_biro.
Personally, I can only think of the positives already mentioned.
@florin_biro @kirstenndb congrats on the launch! I wish it was good!
and also happy to know that :)
I like it! I like when startups put a face to the work and not just a CEO / Founder but everyone that's working hard to make it happen on a day to day
I think that's cool. It brings more trust and a personal touch to potential clients.
Increases trust immensely! Especially for early stage B2B startups, having a few faces to put to the product and respectable backgrounds can be huge drivers.
Launching soon!
Yes, it is important. A new startup team may be brilliant and experienced. Still, these qualities become irrelevant if the members fail to address a mutual vision and cannot pursue the company's future growth strategy together.
I like to see who is behind. And yes, for investors is very important to see a team.
@a_budzialowska why is it important? To know who u give money?
@ksusha_golovchenko exactly! To know if the team covered all skills needed to succeed. Like in investor sheet- "who we are" is a must! it's just our human nature that we like to know people with whom we want to make business.
I love such pages ❤️ Maybe I’m just curious but I’m always very interested to meet teams that thought of products that I find interesting!
And being a startup member myself – I love when creativity involved 😁 For example our own Aaply team page: https://aaply.app/team
This made me think about why we haven't added a team page yet. It's mostly because this has never been a priority. We had made an about us page on Webflow, but are yet to add details to it.
However, after going through all the comments, I realize the importance of it in building trust and a way for site visitors to connect with individual team members.
I like it...and yet I don't have one for https://intribe.co. It's on the to do list but not near the top.
@sven_radavics we did that page some time ago, maybe it can be a reference :)
https://aaply.app/team
My opinion: It doesn't add much value. The buyer is more interested in the product than the team. Also, as you quickly scale, updating something like this can be quite difficult. Unless you are a startup that plans to stay lean, I don't recommend doing this.
Yes, it is all about TEAM, but save this for when you are selling your vendor on your product, and invite them to your team, when the time is right. Maintaining "team member pages" can be a distraction IMO.
This is a good question. I think it depends on the goals of your startup. If you focusing on finding investors, definitely yes. Most of the time, the team is as important as ideas and metrics.
From a user perspective, I'm not sure if it's really that valuable. However, we had users asking about team, size or location
It is mandatory to show people who are the creators. Startup is always people.