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I've seen the silly "start-up vs. project" debate rage on and on, to no end, but I have NEVER seen someone try to define what a "project" is and isn't. Are you

by rewind 16y ago

I've seen the silly "start-up vs. project" debate rage on and on, to no end, but I have NEVER seen someone try to define what a "project" is and isn't. Are you actually serious???

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- bhousel 16y ago
  > would you put something on your resume as a job if you had built it over the weekend and had only worked on it for a few days Absolutely! When I interview people, I love finding out what they work on in their spare time. I don't care whether they are "projects", "startups", or whatever. Of course, only include it if it's something impressive that you hacked together in a few days. My take on it is this: "Projects" are for fun. Projects may become elevated to "startups" only if they make money.
  - asanwal 16y ago
    By that definition, Quora is still a project, I guess?
    - bhousel 16y ago
      Hehe, actually yes. Don't get me started on Quora. :)
    - zbruhnke 16y ago
      really? didn't read the article too well I guess? Quora has two founders who left jobs at facebook and dedicated themselves to it ... how would that fit the definition of a project in this article exactly?
      - jarek 16y ago
        Grandparent said: ""Projects" are for fun. Projects may become elevated to "startups" only if they make money." Does Quora make money?
      - zbruhnke 16y ago
        whoops ... thought you were talking about my definition in the article!
      - asanwal 16y ago
        Easy there turbo. Was responding to 'bhousel' who wrote -- "Projects" are for fun. Projects may become elevated to "startups" only if they make money.
  - biot 16y ago
    Employment History: http://randomurlwithnorevenue.com/ March 18 - 20, 2011 (2 days, 18 hours) I absolutely would love to see stuff like this on someone's resume, but it should not be listed under the employment section. To me, startup implies company. You can't be CEO of a landing page, website, nor project. But if there's a separate corporate entity then you can be CEO of that. Titles and entities aside, if someone can credibly list their venture as work history, I would consider that a bona fide startup even if the other factors weren't there.
  - jrussbowman 16y ago
    I put unscatter.com, my open source projects and my blog on my resume to show I play with technology even outside of work.
Legion 16y ago
Your collection of HTML, CSS, and server-side scripts thrown onto an Apache server is not a website!

by rewind 16y ago

I've seen the silly "start-up vs. project" debate rage on and on, to no end, but I have NEVER seen someone try to define what a "project" is and isn't. Are you actually serious???

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bhousel 16y ago
> would you put something on your resume as a job if you had built it over the weekend and had only worked on it for a few days Absolutely! When I interview people, I love finding out what they work on in their spare time. I don't care whether they are "projects", "startups", or whatever. Of course, only include it if it's something impressive that you hacked together in a few days. My take on it is this: "Projects" are for fun. Projects may become elevated to "startups" only if they make money.
- asanwal 16y ago
  By that definition, Quora is still a project, I guess?
  - bhousel 16y ago
    Hehe, actually yes. Don't get me started on Quora. :)
  - zbruhnke 16y ago
    really? didn't read the article too well I guess? Quora has two founders who left jobs at facebook and dedicated themselves to it ... how would that fit the definition of a project in this article exactly?
    - jarek 16y ago
      Grandparent said: ""Projects" are for fun. Projects may become elevated to "startups" only if they make money." Does Quora make money?
    - zbruhnke 16y ago
      whoops ... thought you were talking about my definition in the article!
    - asanwal 16y ago
      Easy there turbo. Was responding to 'bhousel' who wrote -- "Projects" are for fun. Projects may become elevated to "startups" only if they make money.
- biot 16y ago
  Employment History: http://randomurlwithnorevenue.com/ March 18 - 20, 2011 (2 days, 18 hours) I absolutely would love to see stuff like this on someone's resume, but it should not be listed under the employment section. To me, startup implies company. You can't be CEO of a landing page, website, nor project. But if there's a separate corporate entity then you can be CEO of that. Titles and entities aside, if someone can credibly list their venture as work history, I would consider that a bona fide startup even if the other factors weren't there.
- jrussbowman 16y ago
  I put unscatter.com, my open source projects and my blog on my resume to show I play with technology even outside of work.

Legion 16y ago

Your collection of HTML, CSS, and server-side scripts thrown onto an Apache server is not a website!