Questions tagged [startup]
Questions relating to a company which is still in the beginning phases of growth
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Is it unusual for an employee to be denied knowledge of where the company's funding comes from?
An engineer begins work at a 3rd-year startup. He inquires about how it is funded. His boss tells him, "You will never know that. Why do you want to know that? The funding is legitimate. That's ...
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What is the share ratio of most tech founders in the first few years? [closed]
I have been working on a big web app/mobile app for students in my country. It's a project that should take me 6-8 month as a solo developer (full stack Next.js)
Right now, I'm focused 100% on ...
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Colleague I “hired” watching football - am I responsible?
I'm doing an internship as a software developer in a startup. When I had the job interview they told me they always need programmers and asked me whether I know someone else from my uni who would like ...
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I resigned because I don't believe anymore in the startup. Should I tell my manager?
I work as Software Team Lead in a "seasoned startup" (6 years old, around 60 employees) in Europe. I've been working there almost since its inception, first as an intern, then full time. Two ...
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How can I get feedback on a business idea for providing English language support for specific projects?
I have an idea for a business providing non-native English professionals with collaborative, real-time language support for specific projects, such as business reports. This support would sit at the ...
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How to reject the job offer from this desperate manager diplomatically?
I'm a 3+ years experienced Software Engineer in India. I have a job offer from an org, which has recently launched it's development center in India. It belongs to my manager in prev org. I am ...
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Should I report unrealistic deadlines assigned to me by other colleagues to my manager?
There is this person X, who would assign an unrealistic deadline and ask to build things that she won't use regularly. This has happened previously also and I had reported it to my manager and he ...
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Am I on a sinking ship? [closed]
I'm wondering if I'm on a sinking ship or if it's just the normal growth process of a company.
I started as one of the first employees in a consulting firm. Now we're about 30 people and still growing....
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Job offer with equity from a startup - what to look for?
I'm in talks with a startup founder about a job, pretty much a CTO role. At the moment it's only 3 people there, I would be the 4th one. It's all running off the founder's pocket now, he says he's got ...
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How to avoid share dilution when you negotiate the contract
I am about to join a project as a CTO role and the two people who started this project are willing to give me some company shares besides cash payment.
How do I negotiate the contract to avoid share ...
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What is the best way to participate in a startup idea? [closed]
Recently I got a proposal to be part of a startup idea, as the head of development team. I was offered three ways of being a participant:
1- To be a shareholder.
2- To get paid with a fixed salary.
3-...
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Is leaving a company after 1 month ok? [closed]
A few weeks ago, I got a job at a 3 year old IT startup, specializing in consulting. I already know that it's not a place I want to stay for very long. Since I only started recently, I am still in the ...
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What is an appropriate compensation structure for freelancing for an early-stage startup?
I was approached by a startup to do some work developing their product. They do not have revenue or funding yet and offered to pay a “market” salary for a contract period that would be 100% deferred ...
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Senior coworker asked me to join his company. I only have 1 year of experience, what should I do? [closed]
Background
I'm a web developer, currently I only have 1 year of experience and I'm working in a local company as a developer. I have a coworker who is in a different department (not a developer) and ...
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Resources and advice for starting a new company [closed]
I am a senior undergraduate, a former intern of a web application startup and now working as a freelancer. After an internship of a few months, I have gained some experience about how things work at a ...
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Removing the weekends from the month and then calculating the salary
I am working in a 3-5 people startup & the way my employer calculates the salary is a new way which I have never seen before. He basically first removes the weekends (Sat & Sun) from the month ...
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Disadvantages to working at startup as developer [closed]
I have been working as a software developer at a government job for a couple years now and have started looking for jobs elsewhere to forward my career. Specifically I am hoping to land a fully remote ...
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How do I objectively calculate and pay colleagues and myself for time spent working on our startup?
Background:
I and two other colleagues founded a start-up company a number of years ago. We’ve spent a lot of time over the years building our product and the business and we expect to start earning ...
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Can we issue a certificate of employment for someone if our company is not legally registered?
I was a co-founder in my friend's startup for 6 months in India. It was something out of passion, not about money. So, the Company wasn't registered legally, all 10 of us were volunteering our ...
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How to deal with a co-funder who does not look for information
I believe that getting information is an important task when running a business, and particularly when you have to make decisions in an executive board. Basically, one of the co-funders of my startup ...
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How do I improve in my role as liaison between engineering and customer support/sales?
Some context:
I started working at a startup with 8 employees as a mid level developer about 3 months ago. One of the responsibilities I was tasked with is facilitating communication with our product ...
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What does a non-technical founder bring to a tech company? [closed]
The classic formula for a tech startup is that technical founder(s) build an MVP, get funding, and then bring on non-technical staff as required, this leaves the majority of the equity in the hands of ...
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How to diplomatically reject an interview invitation from the former manager?
I'm a 3+ years experienced Software Developer in India. I left my previous organization during March 2020 and have been working in my current organization since then. My former manager also left the ...
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How to find skilled people to start a company
I have an idea that I would like to monetize through a startup company (software based). Although I have the technical skills and a working prototype it is simply too much work for a single person to ...
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Is it possible to hire a person even before registering the startup?
Suppose that a non-technical individual is trying to start a technical startup. He has not registered his company.
He wants to hire a person to work on the system for him.
Will a person agree to work ...
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How to add a stealth mode startup to LinkedIn?
Several months ago, I left my job in tech to found a biotech startup with a few really great people. We spent several months working on it, we learned a lot, and finally we realized that now isn't the ...
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Difficulty retrieving pay slip from company CEO
Six months back, I used to work in a company which was a start up located in India. I left the company around April 2020 (during pandemic). Due to that I couldn't collect any certificates. After that, ...
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1answer
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Being recruited to develop a product that is very similar to my own pet product [closed]
As a recent grad, I spent the summer alongside two others in developing a non-commercial web-app that measures music similarity through the use of AI
It caught the attention of a seed stage start-up ...
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As a co-owner of a small business, how do I assure a hiring manager that I will actually be available?
I'm the technical co-founder of a small software business (two people). We built some very niche enterprise SaaS software and have a few big clients who pay us every year. The software is now so ...
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Managing startup, how to control stress levels?
I work in small startup company, during the sprints we have very stressful atmosphere, caused by short deadlines and underslept personnel. How can I handle or at least mitigate this situation as a ...
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Raising a startup, but workmates are falling behind on their tasks. How to handle this?
My friends and I are currently raising a startup that will launch our first product at the end of Q3 this year. Apart from the freelance marketing team, this startup consists of three developers, ...
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Why should R&D staffs not the owner of the patent that they have developed? [closed]
I want to run a tech start-up, so I need to work with people to develop a product.
The output of product development would lead to some papers and patents.
My concern is, how can I treat with team ...
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How do I, a junior developer, ask for a senior's help? [duplicate]
I am a junior developer that recently graduated from a programming bootcamp. I studied front end development for three months and previously outside the bootcamp, I did not have any exposure to ...
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Is it normal for people to take things personally when rebuked/disagreed upon in a startup environment?
I've had experience with two co-founders (from two different startups) name John and Adam. Both of them 'rage quit' the company when I did not agree with them.
John got so upset with me (the founder) ...
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Joining a startup. What should I know? [closed]
I got an offer from a start-up (in Silicon Valley) which I believe has a really bright future. The team I am going to work with are very talented, and most importantly friendly. I believe I am going ...
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How to turn down older programmers during interviews? [closed]
When hiring for startup what are some methods of filtering out older (27+) developers ? During interviewing we had few older developers stubbornly "get through" even though we explicitly ...
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How to gracefully quit a job when I stuck within a project that doesn’t belong to the core business of the company? [duplicate]
I work as a developer for a startup. I maintain a product (let’s call it P) which is an integration tool for 3 years now. The product has a considerable functional and technical dept:
Business side:
...
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How do I deliver a negative performance review in a constructive way, especially in a start-up company
When I was a junior developer I got several negative performance reviews. The memory is so vivid that even almost 20 years later I can still remember those reviews. They just ruined my days and made ...
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Verification of employment for stealth mode startup, USA [unpaid]
Background information:
I have been working full time for a large corporation. Two months ago I left the full time job and joined a startup. I don't have any formal contract with this startup. However,...
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How to start my startup in the following scenario? [closed]
I am a computer science graduate. I have a startup idea which is totally of mechanical domain. Since I do not have enough money to find my startup I am seeking for incubation in one of the college in ...
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In a rapidly developing startup, is asking for a raise 6 months after receiving one going to make me look greedy and bad?
I know that 6 months is way too soon to be negotiating salaries in any usual context. My context is not usual.
I joined the company as their first employee, after a couple year break from work for ...
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Not getting feedback from the employer
I am working as a scientific project manager in a small startup Pharma company. Unfortunately, I have realized that I am not getting any kind of feedback from my team lead. The most frustrating part ...
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How to trust a freelancer and stop him from stealing my idea?
I am a computer graduate but the idea on which I want to start my startup is mechanical based. I have found a potential candidate but he live in a different country. He is completely new to me but ...
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Wrong new job, what to take into account before becoming a job hopper
After around two years working in my first job, I decided to try something new and accepted a new job at a promising startup that looked extremely interesting.
A few weeks in and I began seeing it ...
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Extremely unsure of my role/wage at chaotic startup
I'm a junior dev, have been at this startup for over a year and have built 90% of the frontend. I learn very fast and work 60-80 hour workweeks by choice because I love the work and understand the ...
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How do I approach founders about salary inequality in a startup?
To add a little context, I joined a startup as a fullstack developer in late 2017, making me the fourth member of a team of two founders working sales, and me and a colleague doing the actual ...
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Compensation to start-up employees upon company's exit
Start-up I am working for is being acquired. What compensation should I expect not including equity I was given when joined the company, if any? And if I am offered such compensation, how can I ...
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How does an unsuccessful software startup attempt look on a resume?
I am coming up on 5 years at my first job, and want to leave it in order to pursue some personal development projects full time. I have been working on them in most of my spare time and think one of ...
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Does anyone have e-residency? [closed]
I've been told the the startup stack exchange was closed due to not having enough activity and this was the closest stack exchange related site where I could ask a business-related question, hence I'm ...
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Can I date an experience on my resume earlier than the LLC was actually formed?
So up until now I have been listing a personal project (Android App) on my Resume under a "Projects" category for the past year. in this time I have spent close to 1000 hours on the project and am ...
