The flow of the site immediately sticks out in a great way. As a user the navigation bar for the lessons is easily understood.
Each lesson has its own key terms that can be used as a mini nav within the lesson which is helpful.
The code layout is simple and not overwhelming. Its nice to see long hand vs short hand
People can argue all day long about the right content but this seems to be a great start. Clearly the author has put much prep and time into considering this.
So nicely put. I could not have said it better myself. Airbnb has the social responsibility to help restore this woman's life and make sure this doesn't happen again. Im concerned with all the attention this topic is receiving, that it will influence other bad people to leverage the missing link in their business model.
Sounds like you should start your own incubator or consulting firm on how you think things should be down. Do you have any money to help a few good startups?
I'm a middle of the road Japanese salary-man, so I really don't have the means to start funding startups, especially when I don't know if I'll be able to feed myself and my family next month. ;)
I did get the offer of seed money from one of my current customers to start my own company, but I really don't feel that I'm at the point in my life where I want to be responsible for employees.
Do not budge. Stick with your asking price. You already made the mistake of not aiming high and negotiating down to 70k so now that you have no room to budge you need to enforce the asking price. Then when they come up to 60 maybe then you can consider going down but I wouldnt until they get to 60k.
Im thinking I agree with you. Startup founder here preparing for a secret launch for number of reasons. 1 to gain most market share right away. 2 our idea is easy to imitate. Do you have any consulting with bringing a working product to a VC without testing the market?
It's really hard. You need to have a personal relationship or well-known brand for a VC to invest in a product without any market data. There are ways to get stealth data, you can mask the product or give targeted beta codes to users that will pay. Depending on the product/cost you really don't need that many paying customers to provide proof of concept. Free sites it's nearly impossible, they will want to see traction.
Universities are not the best source for finding juniors and graduates. Put a job ad on a major job board to find them.
Your next challenge is to be able to work out which of the many people who apply can get the job done.
Your primary mechanism for this, after shortlisting/initial interviews, is for each graduate to do a 1 day practical exercise to pull together a simple CRM app that allows creation and browsing of client details. They should have a week notice to prepare themselves for this before doing the test at your office.
You should pay them a straight salary, at the lowest end of the market. Forget anything complex and don't even talk about equity until they have proven themselves invaluable.
Monster.com? We never considered that route but It cant hurt to post. I like your thought process. We have a developer from Orbitz on board that will help translate the "simple CRM app" haha ;) but thank you. Do you know what a salary should be for low end market right now? $20hr?
After reading HN for 3 months, I got the feeling developers enjoyed working for an equity bonus. But then again if this is not a partner then that doesnt make sense. Very useful stuff, thanks for your time.
Post an article asking HN "what is the low end salary for a junior/graduate programmer in the U.S.".
How much seed money do you have? Do not pay per hour, pay a salary, assuming you have enough money. Ideally you will have enough to employ a low end graduate for 12 months. That is your runway. When that money is gone your startup is gone. Do not be tempted to spend one cent of the money allocated to the graduate salary on anything else.
The price of the advice....... if you find someone using this approach then please do a "Tell HN:" post explaining how you used this approach to find the first developer for your startup.
Each lesson has its own key terms that can be used as a mini nav within the lesson which is helpful.
The code layout is simple and not overwhelming. Its nice to see long hand vs short hand
People can argue all day long about the right content but this seems to be a great start. Clearly the author has put much prep and time into considering this.