power matters a lot on a phone but not that much on the server
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I expect a founder to normally guarantee 6 months, or 12 months or 24 months of payment before hiring someone depending on the situation at time of hire. This is the only way I would hire anybody.
Frankly I find it misplaced for a hired employee to have to worry about intricate details about company's runway and other risks etc. Its not your problem. If you are expected to own that as your problem then you might as well offer to be a founder and get proper stock.
- If there is a stock offer learn vesting terms and ballpark how much you would make if company was worth 10M-100M. Assume that's an extra bonus and company would probably not make it there.
- Determine what your role is and whether you will like it.
They find gaps in the financial institutions' way of doing business and fill the space.
For example, instead of simply spending money for advertising, you create a valuable piece of content and share it in places your audience hangs out. Then repeat this and be consistent until you get to a result.
Instead of using quick and lazy methods, you achieved something, often creating value for others along the way, and the whole activity was a 'hustle'.
You can hustle 9 till 5 and be done with it. Though, I do get that if you were more persistent and focused on a result, this can easily become 9 till 7 or 12.
So yes, while the term in my opinion was a positive one, it is worth being cautious when explaining it.
Buzz is a community building tool for B2B companies to showcase their products and reach out to their audience directly.
Compensation: 90K per year + (%.5 - %1.0) vesting in 4 years. Numbers can vary based on experience and location.
Apply: info@getbuzz.io
We are looking for a Lead Node.js engineer. - Proficient with Javascript. - Lead development of backend components in Express JS, Node JS and related technologies. - Manage and lead backend development, undertake planning and approach for a feature. - Strong understanding of databases, normalization, caching. Knex.js and Sequelize experience is a plus. Design ER diagrams. - Experience with database optimizations and NoSQL databases is a plus. - Experience with real-time (e.g. Socket.io) is a plus. - JQuery experience is a plus. - Self-driven, diligent, values own and others' time. Understands importance of shipping.
Our day to day workflow involves planning, developing new backend features, update and optimize the backend architecture. We start by planning with the User Interface. The UI and its flows allows us to design the database models. We create ER diagrams to see the full picture in data models. Then we design the routes, urls, and define what needs to happen. We then write the logic that drives the feature. We take a holistic approach. We refactor features into sub-apps if needed. We write tests using Mocha and Chai. We measure response times, find bottlenecks and optimize.
We work remotely, using online tools. Our main office is in Mountain View, CA. We work flexible times, and encourage you to set up the best working environment for yourself. We are a small, tightly knit team who truly cares about this product. We are looking for someone who will be just as excited.
You have your own space, your time, lots of flexibility, and control. Your contributions will make direct impact on our product.
If doing sales sounds tough, it will start tough and then get easier. If people ignore you just keep going.
Build something for someone for free (assuming you are in a programming or similar field).
When selling the most important part is the immediate benefit you are providing - will you reduce your customer's cost, improve their sales, solve some problem they spend too much time?
RE: how do you find clients? What field are you in? Who would need your service? Identify 1000 potential buyers and contact them. Contact them by email, phone, use forums, go to conferences, talk to people one on one. Introduce your benefit to them.. Make sure you contact people who seem to have budget and good things going on. Build a website on wordpress that describes your service. Hang out in places where your audience might be.
There is a lot to talk about but most importantly you "do" something consistently, improve it and keep going if you get Nos. If you stop doing you will never get there, and if you keep doing you will definitely get somewhere good, then great.
You can try starting a consultancy business. Start as a freelance and grow that. Anything you do you must work hard and create value for others. If you do this consistently you will eventually move into a position where you are comfortable. The best way is to start by doing what you like and engages you, and at the same time the resulting work creates value for others. This doesn't have to be a startup with a product, consulting is always easier to start.
Buzz lets companies build online communities around their brands and engage with their users in their own platform.
Compensation: ($70,000 - $90,000) per year + (%0.5 - %1.0) equity vesting in 4 years. Depends on experience and location.
Apply: info@getbuzz.io
Rails: - Architect and design backend components in Ruby on Rails. Improve the performance and reliability of our services. Improve database design. Play an active role in managing our AWS infrastructure. Manage and lead Backend development. Help the product team to determine technical feasibility of features. Understanding of Rails API and front-end development. Real-time backend (socket.io and similar) and Redis experience is a plus.
Front-end: - Architect and design front-end components. Proficient with a Javascript framework, (Ember.js a plus). Experience in server side rendering and performance optimizations. Strong understanding of Javascript as a language and how JS engines work.
Team and Environment: We work remotely, using online tools. Our main office is in Mountain View, CA. We work flexible times, and encourage you to set up the best working environment for yourself. We are a small, tightly knit team who truly cares about this product. We are looking for someone who will be just as excited.
You have your own space, your time, lots of flexibility, and control. Your contributions will make direct impact.
We are a SaaS company offering a community building tool called Buzz. Buzz helps companies launch social-network like communities and lets them engage with their users in their own platform. We find development of this software fun: it is social, people-oriented. It encourages learning and spreading of knowledge.
Positions: Rails and Ember.js developers
Apply: info@getbuzz.io
Rails: – Practical knowledge and understanding of the Ruby on Rails architecture – Experience with databases, normalization, sharding, caching (Redis, PostgreSQL) – Experience with deployment – Understanding of Rails API and front-end development – Node.js experience is a plus – Real-time backend experience is a plus (socket.io and similar)
Emberjs: – Experience developing components, features using popular javascript frameworks – Experience with Javascript as a language, and how the javascript browser engines work. - Emberjs experience is a plus.
Our day-to-day workflow involves developing new application features, update and optimization of the backend architecture, improving our deployment processes, improvements in database design, access, caching. You should also be comfortable to work with Ember javascript framework and its interface with Rails.
This is a great opportunity for an interested and able engineer to get exposed to a lot of technologies fast, also see the impact of her/his work quickly.
Team and Environment: We work remotely, using online tools. Our main office is in Mountain View, CA. We work flexible times, and encourage you to set up the best working environment for yourself. We are a small, tightly knit team who truly cares about this product. We are looking for someone who will be just as excited.
If you have these skills you can apply them to different software stacks or technical problems. A high-level and decent understanding of the subject is sufficient.
Steve Jobs had no expertise building computers.
You should also have an hour or so after the kids sleep.
5-6 years ago I thought wow this is a really complicated product (a better database?) and I hope they pull it off as a startup.
IMO the biggest issues are (a) a database is a complicated product and (b) there are many options that are good enough and stable. You have to do 10x better than the status quo and that is very hard to do in a space where products are complicated.
All in all are you sure you use the right keywords in google so you get the people with right intent?
Facebook's strength is audience targeting. Are you sure the audience you target is the right one on Facebook?
says Someone1234. Should we believe it?
It can be tailored to be more user friendly sure. But the original philosophy of git was to build distributed version control system that is efficient, straightforward, and dependable.
All of those goals are achieved with its design and improving on this foundation is certainly possible. These were all hard problems to solve at the time, given the state of the art was CVS, subversion and perforce.