Questions tagged [startup]
Questions relating to a company which is still in the beginning phases of growth
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Late on payment, possibility to continue. Company going bankrupt? [duplicate]
I tried searching for a similar question but I don't think any of them answer my question.
I work for a small company and my superiors have recently told us that they cannot guarantee they can pay us ...
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Planning to leave startup which is about to raise funds [duplicate]
I am planning to leave my current job. The company is a startup which has been working on the product for two years and i have worked here for a year.
I take care of the Backend and Machine Learning. ...
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I'm a software developer for a partying startup that isn't profitable [closed]
I've worked for startups that went bankrupt overnight, and it's happen to several friends of mine. I worked as a freelancer for several years after the 2008 collapse, and experienced first hand what ...
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How can I learn from an internship when I'm not being given hands-on technical work?
My Situation
I am an unpaid intern programmer for a new startup. However, I am not being given actual programming work - instead, I have other grunt-work responsibilities that are constantly ongoing ...
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How damaging to a career is starting a start up [closed]
I am 24 and I have been working as a programmer for about 5 years (I skipped university/college, got intership right after school and I got hired permanently).
I have been thinking about starting my ...
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How can I make a company I co-founded a better place to be or cleanly move onto something else?
I co-founded a company a couple years ago, and am in charge of the development aspects of the company. I am an executive (CTO) and am on the board of directors. I also own 20% of the company (the ...
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How to approach HR about mistakenly breaching moonlighting policy
I started working at a large tech company a couple of months ago. I also signed an agreement to be a scientific advisor on the advisory board of the start-up where I used to work.
The problem is, I ...
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Supervisor without relevant technical knowledge does not communicate project objectives clearly
I've just changed career from academia (PhD in Mathematics + postdoc in machine learning) to industry. I got fired from two jobs because of communication issues with my supervisors.
My previous job ...
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Salary increases in startups [closed]
I'm the owner of a very small startup in the IT sector of Germany. Very small means 3 people getting a salary: 2 of them are founders (including me), and 1 employee.
The employee is still very young (...
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How to claim past experience for a startup portfolio?
I am working on my startup becoming self-employed and I have a page on my site that I would like to display my experience. The problem is, I did not get this experience with my start-up, but with past ...
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Reaching out to Marketing for experience when I'm an Engineer
I'm currently an engineer and am thinking about starting up my own business on the side (still an idea but in the process of creating the MVP). My business would bring zero competition to my current ...
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Is it ok to accept the proposal to work from home?
I am starting work in a small startup (4 active members) as a lead developer. The CEO told me "you can work from home, it is up to you, but if you want to move in, just let me known when". The office ...
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Should I let my boss know that I'm concerned about my future in the company?
I joined a startup startup at an early stage and have been working with them for one year and half. My position could be named something like "devops" or "fullstack engineer".
We met some success and ...
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Junior Developer Burnout [closed]
Backstory ahead, but the question is: Are there any techniques to overcome job burnout when all techniques I have found don't work? If I quit, I will have to work outside of technology in order to get ...
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Service provider hired employee from our company [closed]
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A company that provides services to us, approached an employee and offered them a job. The employee accepted the job.
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I run a tech services and conservation NPO. We're knee deep in ...
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How do I Raise Money for my small Business? [closed]
I own a very small Business and managed to publish a handful of mobile Games and Apps.
I basically do everything on my own and pay small fees to freelancers for extra design, code, etc. Simply put I ...
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Job satisfaction talk at a startup [closed]
So I'm currently working for a startup, we only have 10 guys in service. WHen I started at this job it was fun I got a lot of freedom, I needed to setup everything in my area (I'm the only one doing ...
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How does a second computer related degree look on a resume? [closed]
A student that achieved a high GPA at an accredited Computer Engineering program is having trouble landing a job developing software. The Engineering degree is mostly hardware so there was little ...
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What can I do to improve my chances of being accepted to a position? [closed]
I applied to a programming researcher position in a science related startup. I was rejected in the final stage of selections, probably failing against just one or two other candidates. It is an early ...
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Moving from a corporate to a startup [closed]
I was working in a company with more than 10.000 employees and some billions of revenues for approximately 16 months.
Then I made a mistake and move to another company (>100k in personal) having in ...
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Planning on building a startup and then retiring from it without alienating my co-founders [closed]
I am a professional software developer with substantial experience in my industry. A year ago I was approached by an acquaintance who runs a small local brokerage with another partner.
I started a ...
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What does the "Startup spirit" mention truly imply? [closed]
The application is not for a startup, the company claims to have over 200 employees.
A decent job offer in France I'm reading mentions "Startup spirit guaranteed" among the list of attractive reasons ...
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How to ask for a change to part time in my primary job while also working at a startup
The startup where I am involved as a co-founder (no salary, I work on Saturdays for them) is pressing me to go part time in my current job I current have. I need to apply for a part time job in my ...
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How should I deal with executives who lie to investors? [closed]
I have a friend who started working two months ago in a small startup company that raised a nice seed investment. He works there as a senior programmer.
Two weeks ago, he was present at a meeting ...
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Job responsibility has changed and I am not getting the help I need [closed]
I was hired last November (startup company - US. Only 10 Employees) for my particular expertise in databases.
Two months ago, management hired my supervisor. It's just him and I now in charge of all ...
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Recruiting for a startup: my best candidate has suddenly declined my offer [closed]
I have been running my business apart from my day job, as a freelance IT consulting entity, doing software development, basic IT administration, web design and in essence all SMB IT needs.
Having ...
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Should I tell a friend that I'm disappointed in the way he's running his business which hired me?
This is a long, complex situation, and I'm not sure how to proceed.
A bit of backstory, I made friends with a guy that I work with. He bails more often than not on hanging out, which is irritating ...
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Problem with hesitation in accepting authority at workplaces [closed]
I'm a developer and have previously worked with startups only since graduating 3 years ago.
The reason is that I want to learn as much as possible, upgrade my skills, while having to deal with as ...
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How should I respond to a Co-owner starting a new company without informing the others prior
About 2 years ago two others and I started a LLP specializing in SaaS development. As all of us have jobs beside the LLP all of us dedicate about 8-16 hours a week, which has been working fairly well ...
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Is it okay to overwork in partnership? [closed]
We are a startup. We are four partners. It's a big project. Two of us are for marketing work and two for development. We have made our plans as they should be. Proper and with a deadline.
I'm working ...
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Company threatens legal action for reneging on a signed job agreement if I do not pay ₹20000 [closed]
I recently got a job offer from a startup company in India, and I signed the job agreement. They asked me for cheques of ₹ (Indian Rupees) 20000 and ₹ 40000. They orally informed me that this is a ...
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No process at first developer job - how to dicuss with Management?
Just got my first jr web developer job and I am thrilled!! at least I was -
Basically the code has no documentation and the company has basically no sense of process. its me and about 5 other devs ...
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Hiring but... not fully? [closed]
Over the past several years I've been running a reasonably successful online game as a two-man venture: I program the systems, he manages the volunteers among the community who provide artwork and ...
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Proper timing to negotiate a raise/contract improvement after beginning on a startup
I have recently signed a contract with an early-mid stage startup (5 people without counting me, less than 3 million on seed funding, and about 3 years old). The conditions are more than fair imo and ...
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What to do when your CEO is destroying your startup? [closed]
I founded a mobile application company with 3 other people, three of us took 10% while one took 70% and the title of CEO. We were ok with this because it was his idea and he had the connections to get ...
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Asking for a clarification of when a hiring process will end
I am undergoing a hiring process on a startup, where I have already done a technical test, projects, and a first interview. They are following up with me and the process keeps ongoing, since now they ...
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Is being asked for references a sign that they are willing to hire you unless something bad comes up? [closed]
After two coding projects and having an Skype interview with a startup's team, now
I have been asked to give 3 references from my previous employments.
In most of the recruiting processes, is this ...
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How to estimate the value of a startup equity when negotiating a contract
The startup offer, as listed on the website, suggests a fork of values for both salary and equity. Let's say, for the sake of clarity, the values are 90k-130k$ and 0.25-2% equity.
I need to ...
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How to answer "Are you interviewing anywhere else?" during an interview
Let's suppose we are in an advanced stage of the recruiting process of a company and this question pops up. Also, this is a startup, so the interviewer is not an HR agent but the whole startup team (...
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Boss about to scold and demand more of me [closed]
I am in quite a difficult situation at my workplace and I’d like some objective opinions.
I am an engineer at a startup company. I work between 10.5 to 11 hours a day, not including 3 hours commuting....
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How to break off an internship without burning bridges?
This summer I was planning on returning to a large software company (Company A) for a second year of internship. Between when my prior internship ended and the present I've since partnered with ...
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How to tell soon to be employer that you are also working on a start-up
I am joining a company full-time next week and I am also working on my own start-up idea in parallel with few people.
There is some related and closed discussion here on this but all the answers are ...
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Mutually agreed termination, how quit with minimal impact
I work for a (german) Startup. We are live now for almost 5 years, several successful projects, no signs of trouble. I was the first programmer employed, now employing four programmers and some other ...
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Starting a company in spare time whilst employed full time? [closed]
I would like to set up a business in my spare time where I would make simple database software for small businesses - I'm currently employed full time where part of my role involves this already, ...
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Is two-weeks notice not standard at software startups?
Next month I'm quitting my job (my new job doesn't start until March 13). This is the first time I've really done this, the only other time the entire team was fleeing a sinking ship and I quit to a ...
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Would I be wrong to leave the start-up I’m working for with one month’s notice? [duplicate]
I work for a 25-person startup company. Even though we are a startup we have good funding from a big investor. My role here is CTO (not co-founder) taking care of 5-6 people (used to be 10+).
My boss ...
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Former coworkers have set a standard of longer than two-weeks-notice
I'm quitting soon and need to decide how much notice I will give. My employer hasn't done anything to encourage longer notice: contractually guaranteed severance of the number of weeks requested would ...
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Would opting out of catered lunch be taken poorly?
I'm interviewing at a company that has catered lunch (not a large free cafeteria, like Facebook has) every day. I don't have an offer yet, but I want to plan ahead. I'm going in for a final interview ...
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How to keep career potential when a growing startup starts hiring more senior staff? [duplicate]
I work for a startup which just reached the 100 employees mark.
Now that we are being successful, we started hiring more and more experienced managers from other companies, including the competition.
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What are the Pros and Cons of Working for Family? [closed]
My brother has a tech start up idea, he has offered me a position on his venture doing product management, and is willing to double my current salary on the bases that I relocate to North America and ...
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