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I've got a good dilemma going. Background: I was first employee turned CTO at a startup that exited. We did ok. Not great, but not bad either. I left the acquirer after a year or s…

Money & Scale

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 do…

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 …

but who do they come for? The corporation itself that never did any business and has no assets/liabilities/transactions?

dumb question, do you have to dissolve it if you never did any business with it?

$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.

tldr: I realize the answer to this is "talk to a lawyer" but I'm curious of what the process looks like. The long story is that I formed a corp using Stripe Atlas earlier in 2018. …

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 empl…

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 chang…

Specifically a software offering in the B2C space, but something more general works too. What books/articles do you recommend for a product and technology background person to get …

Yep, that is exactly the kind of clause I’m asking about. 1 year I believe is typical.

How are non-solicitation agreements typically viewed for colleague leaving to start a business together? For instance an engineer and product manager decide to leave a company that…

This weekend I spent some time going through Tren Griffin's new collection of essays "A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs." There is some good advice and great content. I can't help …

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.

Never go to sea with two chronometers; take one or three.

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 …

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…

Background: I joined on as one of the early employees at a startup a couple years ago. I liked the idea, had previously worked with one of the founders and took the lead developer …

I'm hearing more and more that VCs are asking for the removal of single trigger clauses for founders and key employees. Have you every been asked to give it up? What did you get in…

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 start…

I don't have enough insight into the larger startup world, but had this discussion with some coworkers and was curious of the HN opinion. Are there any startups using Java, not the…

Good evening all, I'm currently doing the first engineer deal at a startup privy to a lot of things but very clearly not a founder and not in the financial conversations. Everythin…

Pretty much echo what everyone has said, as an individual contributor if you double up you're doing good.

I've never been a huge fan of the 1 year cliff for early employees, myself being one. I've been looking over some terms of a new agreement, and it seemed to be that it would make s…