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At least my impression is that none of this is malicious or intentional. And my co-founder graduated from an ivy league school and has a FAANG company on their resume as well.

Thanks for that perspective. We have tried to have conversations about it. But things improve only for a short while. I've even broached the topic of getting a 3rd co-founder to co…

Pretty much yeah. It definitely has felt like a one man show.

I'm the CTO of a pre-seed startup. I've been working with my co-founder who's the CEO for about a year. We're both first time founders in our mid-30s with wife/kids. No prior work …

Nope. No income right now. But my expected income for 2023 (the first six months I've worked at the very least) puts me outside of MediCal subsidies. Spouse was on my health insura…

I left my job a week ago and I'm based out of California. My employer's health insurance runs till the end of the month and after that I need to figure something out. I'm a solo fo…

My co-founder and I are discussing options for achieving some cash liquidity in exchange for our equity midway through our startup journey. We imagine we can sell some of our commo…

In this guide to seed fundraising (https://www.ycombinator.com/library/4A-a-guide-to-seed-fundraising), YC advises not to give out more than 25% of equity to investors at the seed …

Even though I don't quite agree with everything in your postmortem, I do want to thank you for reflecting and sharing your experience. It's not easy to admit mistakes in public and…

Great for whom? Founders? I just looked through the author's bio. It doesn't look like he's created an actual startup. What experience does he base this article on?

Why would they need to go woo institutional buyers? At 1T they're already probably part of S&P 500 and other standard investment indexes. All the mutual funds, ETFs, pension plans …

Not necessarily. The FAANG stock prices are low right now due the overall market slump (except may be FB or NFLX). They will highly likely bounce back along with the rest of the ma…

I mean, for all we know, those papers could have been cited as "look here's how not to do it or here's how we're different/better". There are positive and negative citations in pap…

I'm in the process of testing out a few ideas and want to get a quick pulse on user needs in a statistically useful and out-of-my-social-bubble kind of way. So I turned to surveys …

> Are they asking you to choose between salary and equity? Kind of yes. Market rate (I'm also FAANG) with less equity or vice-versa. The equity ceiling is at 10%. The way I'm think…

What I've noticed when talking to non-tech co-founders that come with domain expertise/contacts or business chops is that they tend to figure that they can build an MVP and likely …

> Hold on - They are raising funding right now, but planning on bringing you in after fundraising? That's right. > Do you know how much equity they have? How big is this "founders …

This is for a tech company that has a CEO and a CPO without a prototype, customers or any other full-time hires. They are about to close on their seed funding though and I'll be jo…