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You won't work free overtime for a startup on the hope that your effort is rewarded by a large payday some day. There's nothing inherently wrong with it, but i
by msandford 12y ago
You won't work free overtime for a startup on the hope that your effort is rewarded by a large payday some day.
There's nothing inherently wrong with it, but if you're trying to make something out of nothing (which is basically what startups are) it can be incredibly demoralizing to the people who are killing themselves to make it work somehow.
- Silhouette 12y agoYou've just described a failing startup. Killing yourself to make something work only gets good results by luck, and is a poor business strategy no matter how many shiny startup words anyone uses to dress it up. Likewise, working large amounts of free overtime on someone else's project is for chumps. If you don't have a meaningful financial stake in the business and still do this, someone is taking advantage of you, and following the money/equity will quickly tell you who it is. The only people who reliably win under those conditions are investors who are playing a statistical game and don't suffer any of the adverse personal consequences themselves. Edit: Obviously this doesn't apply to genuine volunteer work, such as contributing to your favourite OSS project or helping out your kid's school or a charity whose goals you want to support. But I don't think these are the kinds of work we are talking about here.