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I think it different in each city. I live in New York, and this city is in dying need for more engineering talents to feed its fast-growing startup scene. Bei

I think it different in each city. I live in New York, and this city is in dying need for more engineering talents to feed its fast-growing startup scene. Being a hacker, the last thing you wanna hear is some finance dude pitching you an idea they had when they were crunching numbers on an excel spreadsheet at their 2nd year analyst job. You have be product-savvy, you have to have respect for the hacker community/culture, and you have to be super persistent.

iheartmemcache 16y ago
For those who are real risk-adverse, charging an hourly rate to build out someones idea is a win/win (the business guy keeps his company stake, and you get the capital necessary to work on your own projects once the contract is over). If you're not entirely sold on someone's startup but feel like you could do a good job building out their idea, there's really no better place to be than NYC right now. I split my time 25% NYC/75% Boston, and NYC is orders of magnitude hotter (at least from what I've witnessed). Watch out though, it's real easy to end up billing 40 hours/week, then spending another 30 on unbilled hours on client management on top of that. More than once I've checked my SCM log, wonder why I haven't made a commit in 3 months and realized at the end of the day I just want to knock a beer or two back and watch some basketball.
aaronmarks 16y ago
For fellow NYC-ers I'd recommend this new service Fred Wilson tweeted out today, sounds pretty interesting / useful: http://www.pairupnyc.com/ http://www.pairupnyc.com/