How to Choose a Startup to Work for by Thinking Like an Investor

Re:How to Choose a Startup to Work for by Thinking Like an I... by sk5t on Monday January 07, 2019 @08:39PM (#18852234)

How about: Doctors Without Borders? Docs who enter general practice in underserved areas rather than metropolitan dermatology? Legal pro bono work, or most prosecutors?

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Re:How to Choose a Startup to Work for by Thinking Like an I... by JJMcJ on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @11:41AM (#18856876)

They forgo some income, or work for free.

But for public service, not because there is a 0.1% chance they'll get a lot of money.

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Re:How to Choose a Startup to Work for by Thinking Like an I... by deanmoriarty on Monday January 07, 2019 @08:42PM (#18852274)

You might have a fair point. I am, however, empirically convinced (but have no data) that the examples you are quoting are a very small portion of their respective professional market population, whereas, always empirically, I'd say that the amount of software professionals who willingly choose to be underpaid purely because of their attraction to some kind of work is much much higher, probably in the 30%+.

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Re:How to Choose a Startup to Work for by Thinking Like an I... by lmeyerov on Monday January 07, 2019 @11:17PM (#18853099)

Someone doing pediatrics might have been better off skipping med school and being a nurse practitioner, or a taxi programmer. Or when going through it, specializing instead in dermatology. Now imagine your town without any pediatricians and GPs and emergency staff ;-)

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