Re:Should first employee at YC funded company work for free?
by edanm on Monday May 16, 2011 @03:42AM
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I disagree with a lot of the naysayers here.
Assuming this arrangement is legal (which others have pointed out might not be correct), I'm not sure this is such a bad deal.
Assuming you have access to all the YC dinners, the talks with pg et. all, etc., this is close to a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to get an up-close look at one of the greatest institutions for startups around. That's worth a lot in itself.
I'm specifically talking about a case where the deal is only for the 3 months of YC. If someone came up to me with a deal to live in SF for 3 months and go through all of YC and learn from the experience, at the cost of only 3 months for myself, I'm not sure that I wouldn't be extremely tempted.
Assuming this arrangement is legal (which others have pointed out might not be correct), I'm not sure this is such a bad deal.
Assuming you have access to all the YC dinners, the talks with pg et. all, etc., this is close to a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to get an up-close look at one of the greatest institutions for startups around. That's worth a lot in itself.
I'm specifically talking about a case where the deal is only for the 3 months of YC. If someone came up to me with a deal to live in SF for 3 months and go through all of YC and learn from the experience, at the cost of only 3 months for myself, I'm not sure that I wouldn't be extremely tempted.