Poll: What's your startup involvement?
There's been some discussion about how few attendees at last nights Hacker News London event were involved with startups. It'd be interesting to see what level of involvement HN members have generally
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One option is missing: "I am not interested in startups at all, just like reading about tech news and participating in discussions."
This would (for the most part) be my answer. I came to HN for the tech, not the business.
I would count myself in this category also.
This is definitely missing an "I'm working part-time on my startup" or "I'm consulting part-time to fund my startup".
Personally, I'm working two days a week to pay the bills, and spending the rest of the time working on my startup. I find working only two days a week, it's a lot easier to keep perspective on my real goals (start my own company) versus short term goals from the "real job" (fix a bug, get a feature out the door, etc).
Personally, I'm working two days a week to pay the bills, and spending the rest of the time working on my startup. I find working only two days a week, it's a lot easier to keep perspective on my real goals (start my own company) versus short term goals from the "real job" (fix a bug, get a feature out the door, etc).
Another variation of the "part-time" answer is having a start-up where your pace of development is limited by how fast external people get back to you. In my case, I focus on a start-up when there is progress to be made, but on contract/consultancy work while I'm waiting for others.
I agree. My personal situation is that I am consulting for a startup to pay my bills and bootstrap my own startup.
"Where do you work" asked 9 days ago:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2145250
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2145250
All of the options are about present and future, there is nothing about the past.
My situation is that I used to be involved in startups, but I'm now all corporate.
If I had to choose from the list, then both "interested in working for a startup in the future" and "just like reading" are fairly appropriate, but the latter option paints me as rather more of a dillettante than is actually true.
My situation is that I used to be involved in startups, but I'm now all corporate.
If I had to choose from the list, then both "interested in working for a startup in the future" and "just like reading" are fairly appropriate, but the latter option paints me as rather more of a dillettante than is actually true.
I have worked at startups in the past.
My "full time job" is as a 1099 contractor to a large corporate for 40 hours a week, 9-5.
I'm doing 20 hours a week as a W2 employee through a consulting firm for an old project that I used to work full time on.
I do about 10-15 hours of random freelance work a week.
I publish my own iOS apps which I work on as time allows, but generally I get one out every 2-3 months.
I also have a few side projects I'm working on.
I'm doing 20 hours a week as a W2 employee through a consulting firm for an old project that I used to work full time on.
I do about 10-15 hours of random freelance work a week.
I publish my own iOS apps which I work on as time allows, but generally I get one out every 2-3 months.
I also have a few side projects I'm working on.
What about an 'I am not involved or particularly interested in startups', and an 'Other' option?
(This is in the interests of fairness and not out of any personal bias.)
(This is in the interests of fairness and not out of any personal bias.)
I'm half and half between "I'm currently working fulltime on my own startup" and "I'm working on a project on the side" depending which way you look at it.
I'm doing 2 or 3 days a week freelance/contract work to support working on the startup the rest of the time.
The aim being that when we turn on payment in the next few weeks I'll be able to scale back the freelance work to spend 100% of time on the startup.
I'm doing 2 or 3 days a week freelance/contract work to support working on the startup the rest of the time.
The aim being that when we turn on payment in the next few weeks I'll be able to scale back the freelance work to spend 100% of time on the startup.
Currently starting a startup (startup'ing) full time. http://cvkitchen.com (CV Builder)
You based in London ? - I run a recruitment startups if you want to grab coffee or something sometime.
There's actually quite a few recruitment startups around this area, maybe we should organize a dinner for us all or something.
There's actually quite a few recruitment startups around this area, maybe we should organize a dinner for us all or something.
Sounds great, whilst we aren't focused on the recruitment aspects we are looking to work with some recruitment startups/companies to keep our focus on the creation of a CV.
I just @ replied you.
I just @ replied you.
I left my funded startup to go back to school.
Why? What did you go back to school to study? It seems to me like running your own (assuming tech. oriented?) company would be a much better place to learn than school would.
Although I'll admit that this is a dream of mine. Someday make enough money to go back to school as a "gentleman scholar"...
Although I'll admit that this is a dream of mine. Someday make enough money to go back to school as a "gentleman scholar"...
Not sure how startup would be defined. I work at a small company I started with 3 people who have become my friends (okay, one of them already was), I've been working there for 3.5 years. We're still in stealth mode, though.
Here's a link to the discussion about the HNLondon event http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2179279
I am a college student who is extremely interested in startups and would like to work at one when I graduate. Further on down the line, I would like to start one as well.
How about "I had a startup in the past"?
I'm working part-time on my own startup
I would like an internship with a startup. Meanwhile, keeping the projects moving.
Currently a startup employee who plans to eventually graduate to startup founder.
There is no graduation, just start!
I'm employee at a post-startup
I'm contracting to a startup.
I am working on my project nearly full time. I go to college on the side.
Missing option: Startup acquired, golden handcuffs.
I'm currently working part-time on my own startup
I've worked at the same startup for 10 yrs
I'm working on a project on the side.
I own a product and now building a second one. Founder and developer of http://www.mockuptiger.com