Tired of entitled white girls giving us advice as if any of it applies to us. No doub the next elizabeth holmes. be a young attractive white girl who went to cambridge and you can get a startup job? okay that helps.
Not a Hacker or a Hipster – How I Got My First Startup Job
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#12> talk to people around you, they’re surprisingly willing to be involved in what you’re doing if it’s interesting and not too onerous for them. Counters the general assumption that if you talk to strangers they’ll think you’re crazy. Maybe if you're a young woman (as the author is) approaching someone at a coffee shop, then sure. Reverse the genders and watch the interaction take on a dramatically different character…
And yet two guys were able to ask everyone in an entire coffee shop what they were working on with a 95% "super friendly" rate. Perhaps some problems are perceived rather than real.
https://medium.com/life-learning/what-are-people-working-on-...
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#13Chutzpah goes very far. Ask for what you want, and explain why you deserve to get it -- then offer to demonstrate your fitness. It's an excellent approach!
I need to work on my chutzpah. I overspecialized in moxie and spunk (the personality trait, that is).
Chutzpah's critical though- you're usually not going to get what you want if you never ask for it. You can wait a really long time for people to just give you what you want, especially if you never express an interest by asking for it.
It sounds like common sense, but it feels like it took about 20 years too long for that to really sink in with me. I always assumed people understood me a lot more than they actually did.
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#14I LOLed so hard at "The thing was at first I couldn’t find one start-up I wanted to devote the next year or so of my life to building."
Hint: startup is more like 7-10y+ unless you're just playing at it, or it fails. If you go into it expecting it to be a year, it probably will be.
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#15"Apply for jobs you’re a bit under qualified for. Most job descriptions describe the perfect candidate. Those features are a wish list not a must have. This applies even more in start-ups where genuine passion for the company gets you a long way." This sound like very good advice.
Yeah exactly, hiring managers have this list in their head, and what they're basically doing is crossing off items that dont apply for each candidate. essentially the ones with the least things crossed out will likely be top of the pile...
In my experience it's a weighted list though, and things like having a compatible personality and a personal drive for wanting "this" job, often counts a great deal more than the technical skills on the job description.
Unless we're talking contracts of course, then you'll simply want the best technical candidate because you need someone who can deliver good quality on time.
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#16Tired of entitled white girls giving us advice as if any of it applies to us. No doub the next elizabeth holmes. be a young attractive white girl who went to cambridge and you can get a startup job? okay that helps.
Reverse the gender and remove "Cambridge" and there would be no front page article.
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#17Chutzpah goes very far. Ask for what you want, and explain why you deserve to get it -- then offer to demonstrate your fitness. It's an excellent approach!
I need to work on my chutzpah. I overspecialized in moxie and spunk (the personality trait, that is). Chutzpah's critical though- you're usually not going to get what you want if you never ask for it. You can wait a really long time for people to just give you what you want, especially if you never express an interest by asking for it. It sounds like common sense, but it feels like it took about 20 years too long for…
Moxie and Spunk sounds like a great hipster brandname.
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#18"Apply for jobs you’re a bit under qualified for. Most job descriptions describe the perfect candidate. Those features are a wish list not a must have. This applies even more in start-ups where genuine passion for the company gets you a long way." This sound like very good advice.
No. In major market cities (SF, Boston, NYC), chances are they're already moving forward with a candidate who does fit the qualifications. Tjey're not hard to fund in those markets.
They are hard enough to find that they are willing to fly in candidates from across the country.
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#19I LOLed so hard at "The thing was at first I couldn’t find one start-up I wanted to devote the next year or so of my life to building." Hint: startup is more like 7-10y+ unless you're just playing at it, or it fails. If you go into it expecting it to be a year, it probably will be.
I think the author wanted to work out if startups were a thing they wanted to do.
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#20What cracks me up is this proclamation made by said author[0]:
Over the 200 waking hours, I managed to
hit the standard needed. It felt like
multiple lucky answers and lots of Googling
that got me there, but that’s how learning
works. I learnt enough Javascript to
get accepted onto the course and I spent
another 3 months, with 15 others,
Googling things together and creating
a new app each week.
Now I’m being paid to build early
MVP’s (minimum viable products) for
start-ups. So I can code.
being paid to build early
MVP’s (minimum viable products) for
start-ups.
So I can code.
0 - http://www.gadgette.com/2016/02/19/how-i-learnt-to-code-in-a...