Paul Buchheit Affiliated imo.im Seeks Hacker ($25k starting bonus)

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unifying messaging. blog here ~ http://imoim.blogspot.com/ pb is an advisor

Paul shares an office with this guy. I assume they're similar ages, and seem to be similarly experienced (both early Googlers, now retired). Is advisor really the right word, here?

Is $25k starting bonus a usual thing? I now use this over meebo, so fast and clean

$25k starting bonus is unusual, so far as I know, particularly for an early stage startup that, in theory, has no money and would mostly be paying someone like employee #2 mostly in equity.

It's a good way to help someone along who might have significant unvested options at a larger company. It might not match the "on the table" money, but might sweeten the deal a bit.

that bonus is your pay. the salary is just sweat equity. i've been tricked by this before.

It does sound like an old dot.com 1.0 scam: $25K starting bonus!!! And your salary is... stock options!

If it is $25K bonus plus $100K salary plus 2-4% of the company, it is worth considering.

The person they are looking for is hard to find and would be worth $95-$140K STARTING at another startup.

There is no way that the founder of imo.im is dumb enough to not pay a salary. This job has to have a six figure salary.

meebo?

it loads faster than meebo

Does it load faster than RadiusIM?

Ebuddy?

The Google Talk Widget?

KoolIM?

Aren't these things a dime a dozen?

It'll definitely be interesting to see if/how they try to distinguish themselves from the others.

According to the blog, the group chat can span multiple networks (AIM, Yahoo!, MSN etc)

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