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I think some people are misinterpreting "programming is easier than I thought it would be" to mean "programming is easy". Just because the barrier to entry is lower than I expected…

I find your response to be a bit dramatic and troll-y, but you do raise some valid, common concerns which I will address now for the sake of others who might be curious: [don't shi…

Did not realize the tax implications of the proximate living bonus when doing the analysis, but found out later. Thanks for pointing it out.

Keen also has <$1M in investment. My salary isn't quite market-rate for an engineer, but it's not too far off when you include perks (proximate living bonus, lunches, healthcare, e…

Not really, because I was managing large scale tech implementations. That's a full time job and then some. I don't have the dev chops to little projects for $XXX/hr. Maybe one day …

Well said, tptacek.

Thank you!! I describe myself as "hard-working generalist". I'm good at coordinating teams and getting things done. I've been working on short and long term goal planning, customer…

It'd be pretty strange for a startup's first hire to be an office manager ;-)

I wrote this article because I wished it existed when I was going through this. Even something as simple as an example of a early employee's salary at a seed-funded startup is help…

Phil - I agree :)

Cool. Do you think the intro I added resolves the confusion? "Hi, I’m Michelle. I recently left my job as a technical consulting manager and joined my best friends and my fiancé, K…

OP here. You're right - it was confusing! I tried to evaluate my offer objectively and wanted to share the tools I used to do that (as well as get feedback on the approach). My rel…

It just occurred to me that I should have posted this on HN before finishing the negotiation. Would have been great to get this input then.

Great point. To sum it up briefly: we have no kids, no debt, and some savings. Now is the best opportunity to try and do this together. It's something we've talked about for a long…

Thanks for reading my post :) I wrote about my decision to make the jump in a previous blog post: http://blog.keen.io/post/26096112831/why-i-left-consulting-a... Some things to con…

Yes. Maybe a whole separate blog post coming on that :)

I authored the post and you're absolutely right. It was a lazy approximation. My healthcare in the startup isn't quite as good now, but I'm also very fortunate in that I don't have…

I modeled the cap table and various financial outcomes to figure out what 1.25% might be worth. In fact, we reviewed those numbers as a team (this was in my post). The founders als…