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Re:Ask HN: work for Apple or continue bootstrapping my startup on Thursday November 03, 2011 @12:35PM (#3192506)

I have been eating ramen noodles for two years, so the determination certainly was there. Would you spend 5 years of your life on ramen? When is enough, enough?

Re:Ask HN: work for Apple or continue bootstrapping my startup on Thursday November 03, 2011 @12:34PM (#3192501)

Yes, this is not a hypothetical.

But am I wasting my "entrepreneurial skills" by going for work for a large company, even if it's called Apple?

Re:Ask HN: work for Apple or continue bootstrapping my startup on Thursday November 03, 2011 @11:43AM (#3192269)

What info should I add about the startup I'm working on right now? It's one of those Web 2.0 projects, hard to tell if it will ever make money. It's kind of cool, has a few users, needs a lot of work to grow it seriously and attract real funding.

Ask HN: work for Apple or continue bootstrapping my startup

Posted by throwawayapple on Thursday November 03, 2011 @11:25AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I need HN's advice. I have been bootstrapping a first startup that failed. Now I am starting a new one, but no income in sight.On the other hand, Apple is offering me a high-paying job as a senior developer. Because it's Apple and their working conditions are crazy, plus all the secrecy, there is just no way to pursue a bootstrapped startup on the side. For Apple, you're all in or you are...

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