My experience as the first employee of a Y Combinator startup
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Re: My experience as the first employee of a Y Combinator startup
#2If it takes you weeks to recover from a burn-out you haven't burned out - yet.
Burn out is a serious issue and some people never fully recover from it. If you're working hard and you need a break after a few months of hard labour that's normal, but it's not the same as being burned out.
Otherwise a great piece and nice to get some insight in to what goes on behind the scenes of backtype.
Re: My experience as the first employee of a Y Combinator startup
#3awesome post. I love your customer focus and liked the part out burning out. Good luck!
Re: My experience as the first employee of a Y Combinator startup
#4Just wanted to comment that this is a great post and I enjoyed reading it.
Re: My experience as the first employee of a Y Combinator startup
#5What salary can one expect while working for a YC startup? Is it comparable with the industry's average?
Re: My experience as the first employee of a Y Combinator startup
#6What salary can one expect while working for a YC startup? Is it comparable with the industry's average?
http://rethinkdb.com/jobs/ has one data point
When comparing salaries, http://indeed.com/salary has been somewhat useful as well.
Re: My experience as the first employee of a Y Combinator startup
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Re: My experience as the first employee of a Y Combinator startup
#8Interesting read but the details are a bit scary from my comfy chair here in enterprise software land:
- Six years at Stanford, two CS degrees
- Works up to 90 hours a week from home, has burned out multiple times in only six months with the company
- Founders work even more
- All three appear to be single white 20something males
- Job and tech (Clojure!) sound cool.
Edit: All that said he seems like a nice guy and I hope he gets rich off of Backtype. I love the service. I just can't quite project myself into the profile above.
Re: My experience as the first employee of a Y Combinator startup
#9Interesting read but the details are a bit scary from my comfy chair here in enterprise software land: - Six years at Stanford, two CS degrees - Works up to 90 hours a week from home, has burned out multiple times in only six months with the company - Founders work even more - All three appear to be single white 20something males - Job and tech (Clojure!) sound cool. Edit: All that said he seems like a nice guy and I…
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Re: My experience as the first employee of a Y Combinator startup
#10What salary can one expect while working for a YC startup? Is it comparable with the industry's average?
The general feeling I get from reading HN is that early stage employees take lower salaries in exchange for higher stock options.
As the company matures and expands its perceived risk drops so later hires tend to be more experienced, higher paid, and with less in the way of stock options.
Seeing as BackType has only three people right now I think we can guess it's on the low salary, high stock side of the curve.