BayAreaSmayArea

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Ask HN: Faamng-type IC vs. generic BigCo Director
1 points by BayAreaSmayArea 6y ago|0 comments
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by BayAreaSmayArea 6y ago
Money & Scale
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by BayAreaSmayArea 6y ago
From what I can tell even with the title it doesn’t matter. I had CTO label and had our companies PMs reporting into me as well. Folks at bigger co’s just don’t seem to care and don’t put value in the experience gained from “leadership” pos
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by BayAreaSmayArea 6y ago
I'm largely in the same boat. I was part of the founding team, architected our systems, wrote a good part of it, and eventually look over leadership of the engineering and product teams as the CEO had to focus on more external matters.
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by BayAreaSmayArea 7y ago
but who do they come for? The corporation itself that never did any business and has no assets/liabilities/transactions?
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by BayAreaSmayArea 7y ago
dumb question, do you have to dissolve it if you never did any business with it?
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by BayAreaSmayArea 8y ago
$90M in funding according to crunchbase, https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/eero/funding_rounds/... , and it's been almost 3 years since the last one.
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Ask HN: How to Roll Down a Stripe Atlas C Corp?
3 points by BayAreaSmayArea 8y ago|1 comments
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by BayAreaSmayArea 8y ago
Interesting, I haven’t had a timesheet since I was an intern during college almost 20 years ago. I didn’t realize that timesheets we’re still a common part of being a salaried employee in tech.
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by BayAreaSmayArea 8y ago
Something that comes up in these discussions is the concept of “company time”. Company resources is clear cut, but what is company time for a salaried employee? How does that change with being a remote employee? I’ve moved to a strategic pr
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Ask HN: What are the best resources for learning go-to-market strategy?
1 points by BayAreaSmayArea 8y ago|0 comments
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by BayAreaSmayArea 8y ago
Yep, that is exactly the kind of clause I’m asking about. 1 year I believe is typical.
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Ask HN: Non-solicitation agreements/cofounders
1 points by BayAreaSmayArea 8y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: Besides capital, did you get any help from your VCs?
1 points by BayAreaSmayArea 8y ago|0 comments
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by BayAreaSmayArea 9y ago
If startup is defined as a business focused on rapid growth and likely VC funded I'd say that is the hope of nearly every one of them.
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by BayAreaSmayArea 9y ago
Never go to sea with two chronometers; take one or three.
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by BayAreaSmayArea 10y ago
I'll take you up on that. I've recently started a little side project using graphql and location based data, nothing serious just sharpening up on some things that are new or that I haven't touched in a while. I haven't
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by BayAreaSmayArea 10y ago
Having a kid kicked my ass in high gear as far as learning and monetizing that learning. I've been fortunate enough to have good jobs and arguable didn't "need" to do more but when I found out we were going to have a chi
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Ask HN: Stepping Away from Day to Day Development, How to Manage?
4 points by BayAreaSmayArea 10y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How much is Single Trigger Vesting worth to you?
6 points by BayAreaSmayArea 11y ago|0 comments
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by BayAreaSmayArea 11y ago
Hard to call Twitter a startup :), but yeah by the articles own admission they're using mostly Scala with some Java. Can you elaborate a bit on why you're using Java8 in your startup project?
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Ask HN: Are there any startups using Java?
9 points by BayAreaSmayArea 11y ago|8 comments
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Ask HN: Tell Me About Vesting Resets
2 points by BayAreaSmayArea 11y ago|0 comments
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by BayAreaSmayArea 11y ago
Pretty much echo what everyone has said, as an individual contributor if you double up you're doing good.
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Ask HN: Accelerated Vesting with Investment?
1 points by BayAreaSmayArea 11y ago|0 comments
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by BayAreaSmayArea 12y ago
Yeah, not SF, not for me. I'm in the southern US so 130 is near the top end for technical, non managerial, positions. The salary offered is a noticeable but not terrible cut. I've had friends tried to recruit me in other parts of
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by BayAreaSmayArea 12y ago
Do people normally lock in that low forever? We're talking about triggers for going up to an agreed upon market++ salary with next fundraising round, or some significant sales for our product, etc.
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by BayAreaSmayArea 12y ago
So essentially employee equity is never "significant" in your opinion? Completely understand that, but my question was about significant from an employee perspective as I mentioned in the OP.
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by BayAreaSmayArea 12y ago
So if I'm reading you right, if the founders have split things with 40% each, and an option pool of 20%, significant would be > 4%?
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by BayAreaSmayArea 12y ago
So thats part of my dilemma, I don't think theres much risk at all and I'm a bit confused by talk of risk in the startup world for software guys. The market is hot and I have little doubt I could walk out tomorrow and get a 110-12

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