You are right. From business perspective they are diversifying and making its bigger and better. Which in all fairness is fine. I was mostly talking about decline in consumer sentiment due to its focus more on selling rather than satisfying customer. I am hearing this from die- hard Apple fans and that is concerning
HR at google will try to negotiate no more than 10-15% for your offer(if this is entry to mid level position)
If you really want to negotiate a better offer, you will to include not just your base but your package including stocks, benefits etc in your package to give them a holistic number. Base salary is only a piece which usually get 10-15% boost, but other benefits usually get ignored. You can negotiate on these both to get what you intend to negotiate with
Big Flop. Modular smartphones provide iterative benefit not revolutionary. Until you have revolutionary breakthrough in product (more software than hardware since hardware is easy to be cloned), these will remain as toys.
Sounds more like a Quora question. Lot of such questions could be answered on that forum. Try checking it out.
Plus, its not always easy to start a startup and have name tags to your roles. If you are doing that, you have missed the most fundamental part of startup101. but i know a lot of startups still do that, and I don't like that.
To give you a philosophical answer. People usually have two situations in life where they make such decision. One where Passion wins and other where Salary(benefits). Almost overtime Passion gives job satisfaction over Passion unless you deal with Finance areas like Stocks, bonds, insurance, investment etc
You are want to work for Passion, you would have to focus on what is relevant in coming future and align your interest with that. There will be fit somewhere. Once you do that, build a portfolio for the future. Not what you know, Not what you have but what you want to be known for.
I don't think it matters at this moment. They are on a well good trajectory which is only going to change when they decide to go for IPO. Till then, Snapchat is Uber (the growth machine) for Early stage investors to get benefits in IPO based on eyeballs it collects as retention
I am not sure what your idea is, but there are lot of assumptions you are making.
1. You are assuming you will get funding in near future
2. You are assuming you will get employees once you get funding
3. You are assuming your idea + execution will make it big
Let me tell you 99.9% of people have same belief about what they do or ideate.
I can't be a better judge of what idea you have or your execution policy.
Good idea to start this off is to build relationships (people, engineers, investors). Don't ask for money, ask for advice. Don't try to recruit, try to influence. Don't go to metopes, organize one...these will lead you to right foundations for your startup
Technical folks are driven by challenges. If you really want to meet or know technical people, you have to yourself start working on "impossible" task. Once you struggle, you can ask online community to help. Some of them might help and then you can take this conversation forward. building relationship is the hardest thing and it takes time. Many a times, you might miss the market by the time you have built relationship. So it can't be the only thing you are doing. No body likes to join a ship going nowhere.... create a map, treasure hunt plan, buy a ship and then ask people to come join you along your pursuit
Yes, we could do that to gain traffic and momentum. However we are trying to figure our product/market fit first. We want to make sure that we can make people fall in love with our solution before we go out for strategic relationships and traffic. We don't want to bet on traffic numbers and want to make something people want(easier said than done). We want to genuinely build a community for people who care about immersive communication
Yes, thats true. This is the nature of any new technology adoption curve. Everything starts with figuring out the target market. We are also stuck in the same phase. We are on a mission to bridge the gap between real world and virtual world. We are trying to reach our audience, but still struggling
Our main considerations were:
1. Local (SF Bay area)
2. Good background in AI and Game engine/apps
3. VR experience is desired not necessary
4.Loves to solve unsolvable problems of future
5. Good cultural fit
Siggraph and GDC is a mess... its hard to talk to people let alone finding good developers. I have tried to find folks but could not. Obviously we are no Oculus or Valve to afford booth or have ads yet. It would be good to reach out via those mechanisms once we grow
Sure, but single customer idea is mostly to give an idea of how to approach this problem. You are right about subjectively 1 customer should not determine the direction of product. Mostly don't ask for feedback to your closest friends and family
Yes, we did and we did get some applicants but they did not have relevant experience or background in Game or AI.
We offered equity and compensation but are having hard time finding quality applicants.