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Poll: What's your startup involvement?
There's been some discussion about how few attendees at last nights Hacker News London event were involved with startups. It'd be interesting to see what level of involvement HN members have generally
- coderholic 16y agoHere's a link to the discussion about the HNLondon event http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2179279 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2179279
- davidw 16y agoI have worked at startups in the past.
- mtrimpe 16y agoI'm working part-time on my own startup
- wheels 16y ago"Where do you work" asked 9 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2145250 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2145250
- margaretmit 16y agoI'm working on a project on the side.
- jkent 16y agoWhat about an 'I am not involved or particularly interested in startups', and an 'Other' option? (This is in the interests of fairness and not out of any personal bias.)
- benreyes 16y agoCurrently starting a startup (startup'ing) full time. http://cvkitchen.com http://cvkitchen.com (CV Builder)
- ig1 16y agoYou based in London ? - I run a recruitment startups if you want to grab coffee or something sometime. There's actually quite a few recruitment startups around this area, maybe we should organize a dinner for us all or something.
- benreyes 16y agoSounds great, whilst we aren't focused on the recruitment aspects we are looking to work with some recruitment startups/companies to keep our focus on the creation of a CV. I just @ replied you.
- steveklabnik 16y agoI left my funded startup to go back to school.
- blhack 16y agoWhy? What did you go back to school to study? It seems to me like running your own (assuming tech. oriented?) company would be a much better place to learn than school would. Although I'll admit that this is a dream of mine. Someday make enough money to go back to school as a "gentleman scholar"...
- steveklabnik 16y agohttp://blog.steveklabnik.com/the-hardest-decision-ive-ever-made http://blog.steveklabnik.com/the-hardest-decision-ive-ever-m... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1916622 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1916622
- frobozz 16y agoAll of the options are about present and future, there is nothing about the past. My situation is that I used to be involved in startups, but I'm now all corporate. If I had to choose from the list, then both "interested in working for a startup in the future" and "just like reading" are fairly appropriate, but the latter option paints me as rather more of a dillettante than is actually true.
- lifefundr 16y agoI am working on my project nearly full time. I go to college on the side.
- JoeAltmaier 16y agoI'm contracting to a startup.
- rlivsey 16y agoI'm half and half between "I'm currently working fulltime on my own startup" and "I'm working on a project on the side" depending which way you look at it. I'm doing 2 or 3 days a week freelance/contract work to support working on the startup the rest of the time. The aim being that when we turn on payment in the next few weeks I'll be able to scale back the freelance work to spend 100% of time on the startup.
- dhyasama 16y agoI do high frequency trading on the side.
- ashleyw 16y agoI hope you don't mind me asking, but how far from the exchange are your servers, and where do you get your live data from?
- rdtsc 16y agoOne option is missing: "I am not interested in startups at all, just like reading about tech news and participating in discussions."
- DanielStraight 16y agoThis would (for the most part) be my answer. I came to HN for the tech, not the business.
- jconnop 16y agoI would count myself in this category also.
- allwein 16y agoMy "full time job" is as a 1099 contractor to a large corporate for 40 hours a week, 9-5. I'm doing 20 hours a week as a W2 employee through a consulting firm for an old project that I used to work full time on. I do about 10-15 hours of random freelance work a week. I publish my own iOS apps which I work on as time allows, but generally I get one out every 2-3 months. I also have a few side projects I'm working on.
- ramonRecuero 16y agoI'm currently working part-time on my own startup
- njharman 16y agoI'm employee at a post-startup
- dochtman 16y agoNot sure how startup would be defined. I work at a small company I started with 3 people who have become my friends (okay, one of them already was), I've been working there for 3.5 years. We're still in stealth mode, though.
- infocaptor 16y agoI own a product and now building a second one. Founder and developer of http://www.mockuptiger.com http://www.mockuptiger.com
- kleinsch 16y agoThis is definitely missing an "I'm working part-time on my startup" or "I'm consulting part-time to fund my startup". Personally, I'm working two days a week to pay the bills, and spending the rest of the time working on my startup. I find working only two days a week, it's a lot easier to keep perspective on my real goals (start my own company) versus short term goals from the "real job" (fix a bug, get a feature out the door, etc).
- NathanKP 16y agoI agree. My personal situation is that I am consulting for a startup to pay my bills and bootstrap my own startup.
- Silhouette 16y agoAnother variation of the "part-time" answer is having a start-up where your pace of development is limited by how fast external people get back to you. In my case, I focus on a start-up when there is progress to be made, but on contract/consultancy work while I'm waiting for others.
- Nemisis7654 16y agoI am a college student who is extremely interested in startups and would like to work at one when I graduate. Further on down the line, I would like to start one as well.
- mgrouchy 16y agoCurrently a startup employee who plans to eventually graduate to startup founder.
- anthonycerra 16y agoThere is no graduation, just start!
- cambriar 16y agoI would like an internship with a startup. Meanwhile, keeping the projects moving.
- punkrider 16y agoI've worked at the same startup for 10 yrs
- nostrademons 16y agoHow about "I had a startup in the past"?
- justin_vanw 16y agoMissing option: Startup acquired, golden handcuffs.