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Re:Ask HN: losing faith in the startup where I'm employee #1 by ww520 on Sunday May 13, 2012 @06:04AM (#3966567)
Not to be harsh but the reality is that the three non-technical founders are not doing their jobs. Since they are not creating the product, their jobs would be to: fund raising, marketing, sales, and biz dev. But none of those happened after a year. As a non-founder your equity portion won't be great but you are the only one building the product; I'm not sure if the salary is worth it to stay on. It's best you chalk it up as a learning experience and move on.
Re:Ask HN: losing faith in the startup where I'm employee #1 by benwerd on Sunday May 13, 2012 @06:23AM (#3966611)
A thousand times this. As an engineer, you're one of the few people in the company whose work can be quantified. It sounds like the non-technical founders don't have any metrics for success that they're being held against - given the batshitness of the business, this will probably work out badly for you. Go go go.