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This is easy to quantify just by looking at the jobs posted on AngelList.
I don't really have or listen to vinyl, but I'm a music lover and also love album art.
P.S. Thanks for posting about your experience.
Craigslist has the audience but no sense of identity, community. eBay has the feedback loop and score but no social network.
Also, in your research have you spoken directly to potential customers/users?
I'm a technical founder seeking co-founders as well.
You show a lot of drive and dedication. Best of luck!
It's in private beta testing right now, feel free to signup: http://www.whathavei.com/signup?inviteCode=yc1101
Feedback on the idea and product greatly appreciated. Crossing fingers on YC application.
Good? Debatable. Memorable? No doubt.
TDD and also code analysis tools can help highlight what you actually need and what you don't.
The converse is true too, if you under-engineer you run the risk of not easily being able to scale up to new requirements.
Over-engineering creates an albatross where you'll fall under your own weight (too much code, slows down development, possibly bad performance, harder to debug). Under-engineering creates a house of cards that is fragile (more buggy, code gets duplicated and patched on, frustrating to work on, hard to refactor).
smegel is right, all recruiters and most hiring managers will filter resumes based on easily quantifiable criteria, and the school and degree are at the top of that list.
Also, to get through interviews at tech companies like Google, you need to have understanding of fundamental computer science concepts if you are applying to be a developer.
From their web site: Clerky helps startups get the legal stuff done fast.
Incorporation, convertible notes, employee documents, NDAs - everything the typical startup needs. Use Clerky to get your paperwork out of the way so you can get back to building your company.
A consideration that was one of the last things to solidify the decision in my mind was people telling me I could get another job easily if things didn't work out. A couple of them were actively trying to recruit/refer me, so I knew I would be in good shape.
A fellow entrepreneur told me, you better be hell bent on what you're doing, because doing a startup is hard. For me I'm obsessed about trying this startup, so I knew it was only a matter of time before I had to leave and give it a shot.
So no precise metrics. Just a gut feeling of: I can't take another day/week/month/year going by without giving this a shot.
You want to be at a place where you get along with the people, learn from them, can be productive as a team.
When the organization has good people, everything else should and most likely will fall into place: learning opportunities, career advancement, good projects, good technology, salary and benefits, fun place to work.
A couple of my previous jobs/companies were very similar to those two scenarios. It was actually at the bigger company that I made more of an impact, had more flexibility, learned more, made professional connections, and made more in salary/bonus/stock.
It's much more a function of whether the organization is a winning, efficient, organized, functional team than the size. Large companies always have bureaucracy but small ones can too.
Let me know what you think about having this app, and specifically about this feature and for cars. Thanks
I can never really learn just by reading docs, books, etc.
If you want to learn XYZ programming language, write an app in that language. In order to get that app built, you'll need to learn whatever is necessary to use the language.
The frontend layer needs to be agnostic of how the middle layer is implemented, and the middle layer agnostic of the backend.
JSON and REST are universal, so if everything communicates using that, you are in good shape if you ever partner with other companies or get acquired.