Questions to Ask Before Joining a Startup

Re:Questions to Ask Before Joining a Startup by freewilly1040 on Monday November 26, 2018 @02:01PM (#18535862)

I think the implicit point is that if you are NOT a cofounder those feelings of ownership are unlikely to be matched by reality. As a non-founder you do not have the input and upside of an owner.

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Re:Questions to Ask Before Joining a Startup by jiveturkey on Monday November 26, 2018 @02:21PM (#18536030)

please note that i am referring to the sense of ownership and responsibility that comes from being one of the important cogs. this is reality in a startup.

i don't mean it in a legal/financial sense, and i am not referring to any extrinsic reward, eg financial upside.

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Re:Questions to Ask Before Joining a Startup by derefr on Monday November 26, 2018 @03:26PM (#18536486)

> this is reality in a startup

Five-year-old well-funded-and-profitable companies with 50 employees, where you as employee #50 are just there to toil away writing some dumb CRUD backoffice code—are still referred to as "start-ups."

And, in fact, since the other kind of startup dies more often than it succeeds and grows into this kind, most startups that are hiring at any given moment are this kind of startup.

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Re:Questions to Ask Before Joining a Startup by jiveturkey on Monday November 26, 2018 @04:01PM (#18536757)

The context in this sub-thread is specifically seed or series A startups.

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