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Re: We want a developer to come to YC with us

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Post by edgeztv » Wed, May 02, 2007, 5:25 PM UTC

edgeztv wrote: post #15

sharpshoot wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

edgeztv - here is a chance to join a YC funded startup building a kickass product and be pretty much employee no: 1 ie a cofounder and you are cautious about salary. Grab this kind of opportunity with both hands - pete and his team are a smart bunch with an awesome idea. Salary considerations ahouldn't be in your head when you are assessing the opportunity. Isn't $50k nough to live off?

I don't care about the salary - I care about the stock, which, if you read carefully, is the focus of my question :) I would be happy on 50k if I had say 10-20% of the company. I would not be happy with 50k, however if it was 5% or less. (Of course this all also largely depends on the idea, which I don't know about yet)

What I really meant to ask in my previous post is whether they are looking for a co-founder or just a paid developer.

In retrospect, phrasing it in terms of salary and stock was the wrong way to frame that question.

Re: We want a developer to come to YC with us

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Post by fmu » Wed, May 02, 2007, 6:39 PM UTC

edgeztv wrote: post #15

sharpshoot wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

edgeztv - here is a chance to join a YC funded startup building a kickass product and be pretty much employee no: 1 ie a cofounder and you are cautious about salary. Grab this kind of opportunity with both hands - pete and his team are a smart bunch with an awesome idea. Salary considerations ahouldn't be in your head when you are assessing the opportunity. Isn't $50k nough to live off?

I don't care about the salary - I care about the stock, which, if you read carefully, is the focus of my question :) I would be happy on 50k if I had say 10-20% of the company. I would not be happy with 50k, however if it was 5% or less. (Of course this all also largely depends on the idea, which I don't know about yet)

i don't think a single employee will ever get 10-20% of the company

Re: We want a developer to come to YC with us

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Post by codeLove » Wed, May 02, 2007, 8:21 PM UTC

petenixey wrote: post #6

Hi Guys, I am the author and also a developer. Doesn't mean there isn't enough love for more though ;) Peter Nixey

Flex should be your choice only when your inhouse team is not good enough at churning out sweet OOP Actionscript. This is because, using Flex makes your app depend too much on Adobe's components. This is not required in most cases. Writing custom components from scratch is the best option[making Flash IDE your primary choice].Flex should be a secondary option.

[Flex was created to make Flash Platform more accessible to Java developers who are not familiar with the timeline concept]

Re: We want a developer to come to YC with us

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Post by rms » Thu, May 03, 2007, 1:25 AM UTC

"we've raised just over $180,000 of investment from Paul Graham"

I wonder if pg will be getting into more traditional angel type funding rounds. They've gotta be doing something pretty good to get a funding round like that from the man himself.

Re: We want a developer to come to YC with us

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Post by ralph » Fri, May 04, 2007, 2:33 PM UTC

rms wrote: post #24

"we've raised just over $180,000 of investment from Paul Graham" I wonder if pg will be getting into more traditional angel type funding rounds. They've gotta be doing something pretty good to get a funding round like that from the man himself.

I wonder if they need that much financing, i.e. they have something in mind to spend it on.