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Footprints on Mars

Ask them what they think is fair, and also give them the option to wait longer. They may be willing to give 10x if you are willing to wait until they are at $10m revenue.

Where are you located? Will you help me with my project? I am 29 and moving back to my home state because I failed to get funding out here and want to go be with my parents. I have…

The title should be "I Knew a Programmer that was manipulated by his management into frustration until his confidence broke."

Go to reddit.com/r/programming and it's almost a 1:1 mirror of HN frontpage at any time. HN is reddit, we need a new hideout.

Learning to play an instrument is fine. Learning to play an instrument in order to "change the world" and become the #1 rock star is worrying. There are other factors involved, lot…

This is a great suggestion. I don't have the extra funds to hire anybody, but if I manage to launch this on my own it's likely I will. What I meant by "enforcement" is my understan…

Yes there is, it hasn't launched yet so I have no cash flow. It's a big cloud project and just getting it launched and running is going to take at the very least some DevOps people…

This sounds like a good first step, thank you for the reply. Here are the issues from my standpoint: Even if I could afford it, I don't know how to hire someone or how to tell them…

I've been working full-time on a rather large Java project for several years. I have no experience working at startups or real-world knowledge of putting together an office and hir…