Two points: first, I look at their t-shirt statement about what they do and decide on the spot whether I am interested. Like a pitch deck. I don't even care wha

Two points: first, I look at their t-shirt statement about what they do and decide on the spot whether I am interested. Like a pitch deck. I don't even care what the job is, I'm just interested in the statement, "making X for Y's," and maaabeeey "with Z." That's 98% of what I need to know. Second, advice to a startup about how to attract you is like asking fish how to catch them, and they always say, "send more worms!" If I'm hiring for a startup, I need to find believers in my mission (or me) with a positive attitude and the minimum viable skills to execute on it - or people cheap enough I can afford to pay a second set of hires to finish what the first ones screw up. If you will work for a fridge full of kombucha and some lottery tickets because your boss tolerates your alarming haircut, that's really amazing, but it seems like succeeding against a fabricated constraint. What do you win? You are basically haircut-rich, meaning a person who does surprisingly better than anyone observing their most apparent life choices would expect. I say this from some pretty cringey personal youthful experience. Growth is attractive, you can't fake it, there is no substitute for it, money can't buy it, and everybody knows it when they see it. These tips are nice, but taken together, they're bike shedding.