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Re:Ask HN: Tips for evaluating a startup offer. on Friday February 11, 2011 @11:32PM (#2209273)
Thanks for taking the time to answer.

I take your point about the exit. The numbers are the ball park that the founders would be happy with to exit.

What would an appropriate level of ownership be for that kind of risk?

Ask HN: Tips for evaluating a startup offer.

I have an offer to join a startup as a first hire and am trying to figure out if it is worth doing. There are two founders, one of which is putting his own money up to bootstrap with. In the first year, one founder will commit between 150k to 210k in cash, the other will work with no salary. Both founders are absolutely key to the idea working as they have the industry experience, smarts and...

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We are using GWT ... in particular GWT-Ext which stands on the shoulders of the Ext JS library. It is an amazing environment to develop in ... and the UI is slick.

The google folks have done a great job putting the core of GWT together. For me, it is the most interesting framework in the Java playground for front end development ... the productivity gain compared to traditional java web frameworks is working out really nicely for us.

Google Web Toolkit

I have recently been playing around with Google Web Toolkit and frameworks built on top of that (GWT-Ext and MyGWT in particular). I am curious to hear from anyone who has done something real with these frameworks and what impression it left on them.

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