Stay small and build knowledge. Spend very little and do projects until you have a great team and you know a lot and no funding problems before you try to catch the big fish.
But as the "founding engineer" from this story, I made a lot of product level calls to avoid the layering of "urgent easy features" that would cost x100 in support down the road.
I also heavily protected my team against crunch and was the only one affected on the rare occasions it was required.
Learning how to say no constructively is a core engineering skill in startups.
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qevlarr@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 31d
Stay small and build knowledge. Spend very little and do projects until you have a great team and you know a lot and no funding problems before you try to catch the big fish.
Fuck VC culture. It kills your business
__init__@programming.dev · 13 pts · 31d
This hit way too close to home lol
xav@programming.dev · 9 pts · 31d
This hurts.
MrLLM@ani.social · 9 pts · 30d
Xuntari@programming.dev · 7 pts · 30d
Holy! This is the last 10 years of my life.
diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 30d
Literally every startup ever
diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 30d
I was waiting for the new guy to completely destroy Luigi’s code that nobody wanted to touch and take down the company once and for all
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 31d
dawa@programming.dev · 1 pts · 24d
Hits way close to home
But as the "founding engineer" from this story, I made a lot of product level calls to avoid the layering of "urgent easy features" that would cost x100 in support down the road.
I also heavily protected my team against crunch and was the only one affected on the rare occasions it was required.
Learning how to say no constructively is a core engineering skill in startups.
ranzispa@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 21d
If you're going to do that, take 30% at least. And make yourself CEO.
You know you're going to work a lot, at least reserve yourself the choice on how to work and have a say in how the business is administered.