Questions tagged [startup]
Questions relating to a company which is still in the beginning phases of growth
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Is it appropriate to approach a company in this situation? [duplicate]
I recently finished college and I have been searching for work as a software developer. After a few interviews I got in contact with a small startup which happened to be ideal as it is exactly what I ...
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Am I being taken advantage of? How can I ask for a raise?
I have a social media internship for $11/hr at a new startup company. This was fine when there was another intern to help me out with duties and projects. The other intern had to quit due to school ...
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How to approach manager about bad code base that needs immediate rewriting? [closed]
I just joined a new company which is a new start up, STILL applying for funds etc. The product is very promising and likely to be a success once fully released to the public (we're currently in a ...
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How do you manage productivity in a small team at a startup?
I recently joined a startup as a Developer and the work environment is very casual to say the least. There is no top management in the team i.e everyone reports to the founder.
The problem is the ...
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Adding a home address to an LLC - real home address vs PO box vs private mailbox service
Can someone provide insight on the pros/cons of registering a business using (1) a real home address vs (2) a PO Box vs (3) a private mail service? The company is a small software consulting business/...
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How many hours a week, over the long term, should a software developer work in order to maximize productivity? [closed]
Something came up in another post that I think can be settled by reference to actual published studies:
How many hours should a TYPICAL software developer work over the LONG TERM in order to ...
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Staying late for appearance?
I have a senior management-technical position with equity and a decent salary in a pre-launch startup with 6 people. I am newly-married and I work about 11 hours a day, 6 days a week, give or take one ...
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3 years working in China… without speaking Mandarin and working with an outdated tech, time to leave for a consulting position? [closed]
I started after my studies to work in a startup. The company got bigger and also shrink somehow but let's say we are now a small company with 30 persons while we were only 8 when the business started. ...
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What is the value in joining a start-up without any equity included in the contract? [closed]
I keep reading about joining a small start-up, keeping it up until it grows and then reaping the rewards.
However, the way I see it is that investors and shareholders will be reaping the rewards, ...
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Created a startup company which is growing, but I'm far too inexperienced to do anything. How do I move on? [closed]
I haven't graduated university yet, and I created a startup company which is growing. There is no co-founder. It's just me. The issue is, I need to get some money in order to keep the servers running, ...
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Salary negotiation dilemma between established company and start up [closed]
So in past weeks there have been salary negotiations going back and forth between me and 2 companies
Company A(Promising Startup).
Company B(An Established Company.)
A little background:
1)Company ...
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How to politely convey that I need a week to confirm the job offer I just received when I'm awaiting decisions of other startups? [duplicate]
I just received an offer from a startup, say A and it is pretty good, the only downside is that I will be the only developer there (as of now) as most of the work is outsourced. The work will be ...
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How to list self-employment on a resume (multiple businesses)
I'm trying to avoid a gap on my resume. After leaving my previous employer I've been working on multiple businesses concepts over the course of two years. I researched each business individually ...
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Making the most of changes in role in organization
I'm a scientist/engineer at a startup, one year out of a PhD program (finished while working), have been working about 1 year, 3 months. Prior to last month, I had been working on many different ...
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How do I handle a solo developer position as a junior developer in a start-up?
I have been working as Junior Web Developer (self-taught) in a start-up company for six months until now. I am currently 19 years old and this is my first employment. I have been programming since ...
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How to build a application development business on the side
I'm an application developer full-time but I'm trying to make a shift from working for someone else to starting a company primarily focused on custom application design/redesign. However, my target ...
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Working at a startup company in addition to current job
Can I include in my resume that I'm working for free at a startup company in addition to my day job with my current company? How should I put it in my resume - volunteering?
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Startup founder constantly delaying offer letter though given verbal confirmation [duplicate]
I interviewed for a startup by one of the two co-founders to whom I was introduced to through a mutual colleague. This was around 5 weeks ago. After an interview I was told that I would be a good fit ...
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Can an employer ask employees to reimburse wages?
I recently joined a startup, and I didn't like it all. To begin with the engineers in there think they're the world's best, where in reality all of us are pretty average at best.
However, the thing ...
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Junior developer with a chance at managerial role [closed]
I've been working as the sole back end developer at a small startup for 2 years, and this has been the entirety of my software career. The front end work was all done by a similarly inexperienced part ...
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How can I decide whether to partner as a member with an LLC that I helped create?
A business partner and I are creating a software consulting business. My role is the lead product developer (err, CTO?) that handles all technical aspects and he is the visionary interfacing with ...
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How to deal with a demanding and moody employee
One of my employees in a tech startup is behaving erratically. We are a small team of about a dozen people working our asses off for launching our apps. Initially he was OK, working and trying to ...
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How should I describe my employment in a startup that failed on my resume, to a recruiter or at an interview
In a nutshell I describe my last position as a "start-up that stopped", slightly flippant I know but if's difficult one to describe.
A number of recruiters, when fishing for leads are intent on ...
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Advantages to working at a start-up? [closed]
I'm considering working at a 1-2 year old start-up, and I'm wondering what the benefits will be. We haven't gotten to negotiations yet, but I am getting the sense that the job will be a lot of work ...
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What's a good job title for one who has worn all the hats at a software start-up? [closed]
I recently left my job and I'm trying to figure out what title to put on my resume. I was somewhat of the technical co-founder, but not officially so.
As a lot of folks who have worked in startups ...
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Negotiating a huge change in responsibility - new start up
a company I was previously contracting for is interested in hiring me on a larger scale as the head of a new tech company they're considering to start. They have a viable business concept of which I ...
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Should I list on my resume my entrepreneurial project as freelance or own
I read that listing your side projects on your resume is a good idea. I'm currently working on an e-commerce project (I am a software engineer) since 2 years ago. It's a big project with a lot going ...
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At what point is it unacceptable for a company to not have anyone in a human resources role? [closed]
I work for a small company that is part of a closely-related group of small companies that are owned by the same handful of people. Between these 3-4 companies, there are maybe a total of 20-30 ...
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Are Non-Compete Agreements void if you beat your former employer to market? [closed]
I have a friend working at my previous company that is something of a domain expert in a very specialized business area of a non-IT related nature. He has been toying around with an idea and doing ...
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Is living at work normal when completing a project on a tight deadline? [closed]
I dropped out of school a few months ago to work at a tech startup without realising how demanding the job would be. The company culture is passion-first. I'm frequently told I'm doing great work and ...
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how to start as a programmer (freelancer)? [closed]
I want to start making money as a programmer, I'm on the third year at uni (mature student), I have skills but not at the top level since I have to work to maintain myself. for another time while ...
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How to get my idea working? [closed]
I have an Idea in my mind which I think could make a big hit if become real. The problem I am facing is, I am not a good programmer and I couldn't get this working by myself. But the good part here is,...
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Is an unpaid internship for web development at a startup legitimate?
I'm a new grad of a web design/development certificate course with very little experience and I've begun applying for jobs.
I have received interest mostly from places offering internships. I have ...
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How to deal with an underperforming engineering manager at a startup? [closed]
I'm at a startup that was an amazing place to work before we hired a new manager last year. In the time since morale has dipped drastically and amazing engineers feel they can no longer affect the ...
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As the 20-year old founder of a startup company, what can I do to get older, more experienced people to take me seriously? [closed]
Edit: I am no longer the original user who made this post (hence the more recent questions I am asking are not related to this post).
I'm the founder of a growing IT company. I went to a university (...
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startup etiquette: employee and supervisor meeting without me [closed]
I am the cofounder / CTO of a very small startup, ~4 people. We recently had to let go 2 people for differing reasons. As a result, we moved one engineer from working mostly on metrics to work on our ...
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Sociopath for coworker at startup [closed]
I work as a programmer at a small tech startup. The team is ~6 people. I've been working there almost 3 years. I am the first employee, but not a founder.
One of the founders has treated me like ...
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How can I deal with a very lazy co-worker? [closed]
I'm working as a software developer at a startup in Istanbul/Turkey where there are only 2 full-time developers (including me) and 3 part-time staff (tester, developer, ux designer).
Yesterday I had ...
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Colleague not working the hours he's scheduled
I work in end user support at a very small company (less than 10 people). We have 1 supervisor for everyone, who is also the owner of the startup.
Another end user support agent is scheduled to come ...
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What is the best way to present to a boss an idea of group of us leaving for a startup
One of my coworkers and I have decided that we'd like to go part ways with our current employer and start up our own business.
Currently we are in a small IT company with their software development ...
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Is it normal to always expect equity when working at a startup? [closed]
I've seen an organization that claimed to be a 'startup' and they expected their employees to work 60+ hour weeks. The salaries are pretty weak and no one has been offered equity yet. There have only ...
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How long should I wait for promised equity at a startup?
I recently started a job at a startup. This means I am working longer hours for less pay than at my last job (which was an established company). A big part of the reason I accepted the job was the ...
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Fitting in with strange or undesired aspects of company culture
I just recently started a position at a new company. Everyone is extremely nice and friendly, but they all share the same non-work-related hobby (a pretty famous trading card game). I don't mind that ...
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How much equity should I be asking for when sacrificing salary? [closed]
I'm trying to evaluate a job offer at a startup. I'm going to use some theoretical figures here. I asked for $12k pay and was offered $10k pay and $2k equity. There is a 1 year cliff period, and 3 ...
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Haven't been paid for last month, is it ok to stop working? [closed]
I'm working as the lead and currently (since everyone else was laid off for money reasons) sole developer of a start-up, and have been there since its beginning a couple of years ago.
A self-employed ...
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What do you do about a disturbing lack of delegation by a CEO?
Here is the background:
I've been with the company for 8 months now as an employee, and have seen the company go from being 3 people and a few contractors to almost 30. We've taken no outside funding;...
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Startup not paying [closed]
I was working for a startup for the past year as salary. At the beginning of March I was told that we would no longer receive a paycheck until the funding was closed which could happen before the next ...
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How to leave a startup as the sole developer
I'm the only developer at an early stage startup (think ~5 people). I have no problems with my current job or coworkers, but a much better offer has come along and I'm considering taking it.
How can ...
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Why do small start-ups provide internships? [closed]
I have seen a lot of intern job at small start-ups at Angel list and other job boards. I think since they are small start-ups, they generally don't have enough resources and time to train students. So,...
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How do I represent startup experience on my resume? What would be an appropriate title to use? [duplicate]
I am working in a 10 person startup. We will be running the pilot project for our idea over the next few months. I want to write about the work that I did am doing in the startup on my CV and since we ...
