Genuine question, curious for answers. People often say "The best founders are able to attract the best talent because they offer options. They also are able to attract them at a far lower salary"I'd be curious see do a small study here on HN, to see if this is really true. If you have, please describe pre/post base salary, options, and size of the company (round raised, turnover etc).Also:...
I would suggest that with the current rise of AI/ML startups, people would be working on artificial emotional intelligence.
Related to this HN post on how to overcome instant gratification: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14751439I find myself a lot of times that I go to bed 1 or 2 hours too late, get distracted a lot from work by all variations of bs (especially when working from home), and think that there should be easy steps to solve this problem.Does the HN community feels the same way? I'm curious as to...
Hi HN,We're two founders from The Netherlands without virtually any money looking for a night to stay in or around Palo Alto from Monday to Tuesday this week. We have our interview on Tuesday. Maybe someone in the HN community who would like some visitors? We can cook something Dutch :)Thanks a lot!Ps we're a fintech startup, building the next gen bank. For anyone interested :)
I want to run an experiment with a user cohort, basically telling them that we've developed some feature and order them to 'unlock/activate' it by hitting a button in the email. There is something that I can't seem to figure out; at what percentage of opens would this be a success? I imagine emails convert less than just putting it in someone's face. Any suggestions in the community?Edit: sorry...
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The question is pretty straightforward: I'm exploring my options to move to a new startup and I'm wondering if anyone knows any engineering team that has awesomely smart people/team.
I'm a junior dev working for freelance clients and working on my own projects. I've noticed that in the recent couple of months, I've not progressed as well as I hoped I would.Yes, I gained experience and whenever I'm going to work with framework x again, I'll be a lot quicker. However, I don't have full insight in the tradeoffs that I'm making when chosing a certain architecture for example....
I'm working on an app with some non-technical people and I noticed that I find it really hard to keep people in the loop of what you've been doing. I want people to understand what I'm working on and why it's taking a certain amount of time, what the result is and most importantly, generating a sense of understanding when things break or don't work as perfect as they expected.It seems really...
However, life is not just programming. When I was in my senior year of high school, I got multiple job offers from tech firms in my country to come work for them. This monday however, I'm starting a university course cs at UVA (university of Amsterdam). This is not because I love programming less than studying (the opposite, actually). It is because I'm playing a long-term game instead of a short one. In colleges, there is so much knowledge right under your nose, and you get to work with people equally smart. Starting this monday, I'll be on the frontier of technology.
From there, I can learn, experiment, socialize, and everything else that I couldn't do while I was building custom CMS systems or optimizing a SQL database for some lame company.
Your working life can last more than 50 years, so be wise about choosing your fundamentals.
Question #1 is somewhat out of the scope of this question tho, but I'm really interested in seeing thoughts on question #2.
Pretty straightforward question and I'm actually asking myself this pretty often. How do you hire people that are better?
I also doesn't make sense to comment along the same lines of another commenter. If my opinion is already expressed in the comments, an upvote makes way more sense imo.
Not much more to add: i'm curious to your views on how you would determine what percentage you should give an agency and/or freelancer that helps you build an mvp for stock and later on for a (cheap) fee.
I've got a pretty straightforward question: would you invest in a company that would have a core building team (full time) and a senior, experienced part of the team but that's only part time comitted, while recieving the same amount of equity equity as the ones that commit full time?
What are you looking for if you are searching for a developer on oDesk or any other freelancing site? Do you post a job or do you go look for developers yourself and ask them to join you? How do you determine if they're capable to work in a team? etc.I'm curious because many startups hire remotely at first, and there's still a lot of problems with that atm.
I'm a front-end programmer and I mostly code in javascript. I'm doing a project right now in which none of my skills are needed and I offered to do the front-end of the app with the new Swift lang.I've bought a new mac and an iOS dev account but I find the event handling pretty weird and I'm a little overwhelmed by all the features and specific way you need to set this up. In the project...
I'm interested to know the so called 'anti-portfolio' of YC. I'm also interested if they had like to share this intel with their community.