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The article is not talking about "bugs that can wait til Monday" or all night coding sessions. It's talking about emergencies that affect your customers that must be dealt with immediately. You've been with at least 5 startups in 9 years. That suggests to me that none of them were terribly successful, in which case I suppose just about any problem could wait til Monday. My startup has almost 20,000 paying customers a…
I'm not sure were you got that. I've been with 3 startups in 9 years. One of them continues to this day (and has been quite successful), one flamed out (1 year), and the current one (3.5 years old) is doing tremendously well (well into 7 figures yearly revenue). I can't help but feel like you didn't really read my comment. It's a matter of triage. It's knowing the difference between a true emergency (the site is down…
Re: What it's like to be the SO of a start-up founder.
#41Sorry, when you said "I've been involved in startups for the last 9 years (the last 4 as a technical founder)", I took "the last 4" to mean the last 4 startups, not years - from which I gathered there had to be at least 1 more, hence 5 startups. Ok, 3 in 9 years, that's a different story. Sorry, I was kind of grouchy when I wrote my comment... it just seemed like you were playing off any and all problems though as "eh.. it's the weekend".