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> Join a startup I liked how Adam D'Angelo suggested that people should join a startup that a) has a great team that is still small, and b) has traction, and c
by jsherwani 16y ago
> Join a startup
I liked how Adam D'Angelo suggested that people should join a startup that a) has a great team that is still small, and b) has traction, and c) lets you learn a ton of stuff.
We're in exactly that situation. Our startup, iTeleport, makes the top grossing VNC-based remote desktop client on the iPhone / iPad.
a) We're a team of two people -- myself (I did my CS PhD from CMU) and Vishal Kapur (BS/MS from MIT, and has worked at a large company and a successful startup over the past few years) -- and we're having a lot of fun doing what we're doing.
b) We've got traction -- more than 100,000 paying customers @$25 a pop, and growing -- we've even been featured on 37signals' Profitable and Proud blog series.
c) Finally, we're working on some incredibly challenging problems all the way from redesigning the user experience (we applied for a patent on our interface hack, which was recently approved) to squeezing every bit of performance juice out of memory and CPU constrained devices when transferring large amounts of graphical data. We're working on a p2p network stack that enables any endpoint to speak directly with any other endpoint without requiring any servers of our own to manage (and pay for (and worry about)). Most importantly, we're in touch with our users, we know what they want, and we want to learn how we can continue making something they want and like. We're making more than $1m in revenues a year, but we feel we've only scratched the surface, and people who join us now are going to really learn an incredible amount about every single aspect of how to build and grow a startup.
We're a team of two, and we're looking for a third. We're very picky, but for the right person, this could be the opportunity of a lifetime. If anyone's interested, go to iTeleportMobile.com, see what we're all about, and email us from the jobs page.
- stevenp 16y ago> Join a startup "I liked how Adam D'Angelo suggested that people should join a startup that a) has a great team that is still small, and b) has traction, and c) lets you learn a ton of stuff." This is a really big challenge for me. The decision to join a really young team versus running off and doing your own thing is really hard, especially when you see lots of awesome startups that actually have a lot going for them. For instance, if I wasn't so caught up in my own world, I would instantly want to join airbnb. I'm sure they're going to be huge. The question is: Does being a founder outweigh the opportunity of being an early employee at someone else's startup?