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by sbisker 15y ago
An admirable list for sure - but that doesn't really tell us why DC has more startup mojo than NY. Particularly when it can be quickly countered with the "Made in NY" list of companies, all self-reported and all with over 10,000 users. h
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by sbisker 15y ago
I've always wondered about the ethics of this approach. How would I feel if someone told me they're provide an awesome service, took my credit card number and then told me the whole thing was some sort of "customer development exercise"?
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by sbisker 15y ago
That may be true, but it's obvious that recruiting has a problem if it's so hard to separate the wheat from the chaff in their own ranks. It's the same problem with realty and real estate agents.
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by sbisker 15y ago
People will have a different opinion of you based on the order in which you tell them facts about yourself. Dan Ariely did some good research into this phenomenon on online dating sites. If a company tells you "we have great pay!...but we s
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by sbisker 15y ago
I think (1) is already somewhat true, unless they changed a rule recently. I flew in 2006 out of Boston Logan with a friend who had forgotten all of his identification (save his boarding pass and maybe a college ID.) You can bet they friske
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by sbisker 15y ago
It's worth it if it's a lot of equity. And if you have your lawyer look at the equity contract before you start. Get your equity contract drawn up before you do a thing. Set up a schedule for your equity to be awarded as your work progresse
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by sbisker 15y ago
When I clicked, I was hoping this was going to be one of those web pages with nothing but a big, bold Helvetica NO on it. (And in the event of a total collapse of the economy, only then might it change to YES.) Apparently Jessica (the autho
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by sbisker 15y ago
I'm not saying it's not a good opportunity for the right person. I'm just saying that by starting with a salary that low, the odds of them keeping the person around more than a year or two are slim. That may or may not matter, depending on
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by sbisker 15y ago
Given the location, you might be able to get away with 40-45k for someone with very little experience. That goes for both UI design and junior development. That said, if you're serious about having them make a career there, I wouldn't low-b
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by sbisker 15y ago
OP or admin: Please change the link desc; i purposely don't click on links with [video] when I don't want to accidentially load an auto-play video (or just don't feel like watching video) but this was a good read. Thanks.
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by sbisker 15y ago
Worth clarifying that the last one (loren's i think, right?) was unusually sharp visually - and from an active, contributing member of the HN community whose earlier design work had hit the front page of HN in prior months.
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by sbisker 15y ago
Good advice. I only mentioned it to give a lower-bound on the expected job salary. The only Wall St firms I know that don't treat their entry-level employees like revolving doors, are also the ones that pay much higher than 50k for base (
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by sbisker 15y ago
Oh, and looking for internships after you got out of school is late - for traditional jobs and larger companies (the Googles of the world), tech internship recruiting season starts around January. However, it can be perfect for getting an
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by sbisker 15y ago
Awesome! :) The nice thing about tech is that there are enough jobs that if you're good, Craigslist will do you just fine. :) I think it depends on where you live, as well as what type of company you want (the three-person YC startup doesn'
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by sbisker 15y ago
To answer your question more directly: There are a ton of people applying for these jobs. Like, crazy amounts. And why wouldn't there be? It's a great field to be in right now. But thanks to things like the Mythical Man-Month[0], enginee
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by sbisker 15y ago
Essentially, you stay away from it because of the low signal to noise ratio. For employers, the deluge of candidates who think that technology is HOTHOTHOT means that they have to look at far more resumes to find people who are worth bringi
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by sbisker 15y ago
Oh, it's venturebros, the guy with the cool name! :) Once you're in NY, drop Hackruiter[0] a line. They're YC alums [EDIT: and apparently YC funded again as recruiters] and based out of NYC, doing recruitment for startups (mostly YC alumni
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by sbisker 15y ago
In NYC, I'd say 60k is too low for an entry-level computer science position, even for a kid coming out of a bachelors, unless you're at a startup / ad agency / other similarly interesting job. Even the first year investment bankers usually
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by sbisker 15y ago
What mailing list is this? I'm looking at moving to NY soon myself from beautiful Boston. If nothing else, I could use some help learning about "the scene".
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by sbisker 15y ago
Was telling Hacker News that your Kindle edition is currently $2.99 part of your marketing strategy? Either way, thanks for the heads up. Purchased! :) (I was thinking of buying it anyway, but this was too cheap to pass up.)
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by sbisker 15y ago
That's cool; I hate it when people get cool names like "venturebros' before me. We can't all win at everything.
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by sbisker 15y ago
This is going to sound strange, but from personal experience, it sounds like you need to move on. It almost doesn't even matter what you move on to . It doesn't even matter if it's with the hottest tools, or if it's with the worst tools in
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by sbisker 15y ago
An article which is, I'm pretty sure, here: http://gawker.com/5803176/how-to-party-your-way-into-a-multi... (Took me some time to find it after you mentioned it, so I figured I'd just give others the link.)
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by sbisker 15y ago
On a side note - Jess3, the firm that was smart and lucky enough to bring this fellow on as a Director, is good. Like, really good. Like, this is the first time I've seen a firm delivering this much quality infographic work of this caliber
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by sbisker 15y ago
If you're not trolling (and I'm not sure you're not), a bit of friendly advice. Girls have biological clocks. The girls your age - their clocks started ticking as soon as you start growing stubble, and they stop ticking, oh, between 5 and 1
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by sbisker 15y ago
What always interests me about stories like that is that wholesale candy is usually clearly marked, on each package, "Individual packages cannot be resold." If an adult sold me a piece of candy with that sort of label on it, I'd raise an
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by sbisker 15y ago
Not to take away from this work, but the title is wrong, or at least needs more specification. There's at least one book that was 100% crowdsourced before this: "Amazing But True Cat Stories"... http://bjoern.org/projects/catbook/ All of
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by sbisker 15y ago
Sure, I'll bite. How do you compare yourselves to existing group sms tools like Fast Society, GroupMe, Disco, Beluga etc?
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by sbisker 15y ago
Like you said, the vast majority of Y Combinator clones do seem to offer office space to their companies. IMHO, too many programs do this for it to be a coincidence. The best reason I can think of for this phenomenon is that for a program
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by sbisker 15y ago
If you're socially outgoing, I think there's a role for something as simple as "Mixergy for Makers." I'd tune in to an interviewer with some domain expertise and the ability to tease out of people the how-did-this-really-turn-into-a-product

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