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How to make a Startup job sound appealing?
My startup needs more software engineers, but I'm not sure how I should advertise this opportunity. Most job offerings promise working on a project for an International Company, and therefore a good ...
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Series B Startup unwilling to disclose total shares
I have an offer from a series B startup that includes number of shares but no mention of value of each share or total shares (so I can compute a percentage). I asked and they were unwilling to ...
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Lawyer/advisor for evaluating (or help drafting) a startup's first offer [closed]
A profitable, single-founder web startup is making me an offer as the first employee (for CTO position).
It's particularly hard to evaluate the offer because:
This company has never received any ...
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Advice on startup offer I have received
I have received a offer from a local start-up and was presented an offer.
I spent the last few days reading on this board looking for insight into the start-up financing world. The team is three ...
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How to validate equity offer in a pre-IPO company
I have a job offer from a pre-IPO company. They announced that they will go public in a year or two and their current valuation based on last round of funding is about $300M. They offered me to own ...
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Formula to evaluate the earnings potential when joining a startup
I'm trying to come up with a rough formula to help decide if I should join a startup. I'd like to weigh my current pay vs joining a startup, taking into account opportunity costs and possible final ...
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Internship Offers Negotiable?
Are offers for interns negotiable? I'm sure this varies from company to company, but most startups don't have a formal intern program like much larger companies and probably far fewer applicants and ...
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Advice on startup offer, am I reading this right?
I recently met with a local start-up and was presented an offer. I spent the last few days reading on this board looking for insight into the start-up financing world. The start-up is technology based ...
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Evaluating a “co-founder” offer
I was presented with the following offer and while I'm waiting legal advice, I'm interested to know your opinions.
I'm been offered a "co-founder" seat with a bit over 10% in stock options vested ...
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salary and stock options in a startup for lead developer - advice needed
I got an offer from my friend in a startup company with $30K/year (take into account it's not in a "hot" spot like Silicon Valley or NY, but yeah, it's not high in any standards, and the job's in a ...
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How informal is too informal for a startup job posting
Do you think this is too informal for an opening to a job posting:
We are in need of a super-motivated pirate/ninja/rockstar/(insert more web 2.0 buzz words) marketing/bizdev guru to join our ...
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Hiring a CTO into an existing [profitable] company - how to structure offer?
I'm the CEO of a B2B startup. Been around almost 1 year and we already have a decent piece of software, 2 clients and are profitable. Not hugely so, but enough to pay the bills.
To scale to the next ...
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If a successful startup's CEO makes what I believe is a low offer for employment as CTO, how can I make an effective counteroffer?
Over the past ten months, I've been working with a startup in a technical capacity as a contractor. Prior to my joining, they had a rocky start and spun their wheels for a while with an outsourcing ...
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New job to bootstrap startup?
Context: I started a SAAS based platform for small and medium sized companies around a year back. To save some time I intentionally took this underpaid job close to my home. I have successfully ...
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Starbucks Interview Process - Hiring Happiness?
As a big Starbucks fan and avid traveller I have noticed a trend while travelling whether its from Toronto to Texas to California... All Starbucks employees seem to have a very similar personality ...
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What is an appropriate stock option grant for a senior engineer after the Series A?
I'm looking for suggestions as I'm considering an offer from a startup.
A friend of mine is founding a software startup together with two partners and he's looking for engineers. The idea is ...
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How do I evaluate a job offer as a software engineer?
I got a job offer from a startup with about 70-80 engineers. I'm a fresh PhD. I'm getting about 0.01%. What percentage of stock options would be a fair price? They gave me a good base salary upfront, ...
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“Sales job” for students/pupils…where to advertise?
We have a new product, which is targeted at wearers of eyeglasses. We sell quite nicely via our website, but we figured it was much more efficient to approach wearers of eyeglasses directly....by ...
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Initial Agreement
I've come to an employment agreement with a startup company and they've sent me a copy of our agreement to look over and sign. I can't afford to get a lawyer to take a look at it, but I would like to ...
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What do you think of this offer?
I was recently offered a part time position with a start up company. Basically I'll do about 10 hours of work per week for them. When I applied for the position, I didn't realize it was unpaid. They ...
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When to say no to a job offer?
What if you were finishing your degree and you got an offer from a big company, such as McKinsey. What would you do? Would you say no thanks and work 100% on your idea, or work part-time on your idea ...
