During the dot-bomb phase I worked for shares of stock.
I have 13,000 shares of one company that no longer exists and 72,500
shares in another that does not exist.
I'm not sure if these times are much different.
Wil Genovese
One man with courage makes a majority.
-Andrew Jackson
A fine is
It's a big gamble. I think the most important factors are:
- How much do you believe in the idea?
- How much do you believe in the people running the company? (I've seen a
lot of great ideas run into the ground by people who just don't know what
they are doing)
- How much is your
Just curious about what people think.. Would you ever work for equity
in a company? Why or why not? What guidelines would you put in place
if you were to?
I think this is an inappropriate question for a technical list. I
think you would be better served by posting this to cf-community.
Dave
Unless you have an absolutely compelling reason you should not do it. It is
a two edge sword and it makes projects hard to walk away from as well.
Only one group of folks have made money in a predictable way on the web -
consultants (and porn vendors but I'll leave them out as a matter of
I'd generally avoid equity only deals. In my experience the people
that are proposing those sorts of deals to major developers also don't
have the money make the business succeed once the product is built. If
they don't have the money to pay developers to build their dream then
either they don't
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Phillip Vectorvec...@mostdeadlygame.com wrote:
Just curious about what people think.. Would you ever work for equity
in a company? Why or why not? What guidelines would you put in place
if you were to?
I would ask these three questions of yourself:
Do you
Or cf-jobs-talk perhaps.
mxAjax / CFAjax docs and other useful articles:
http://www.bifrost.com.au/blog/
2009/7/8 Dave Watts dwa...@figleaf.com:
Just curious about what people think.. Would you ever work for equity
in a company? Why or why not? What guidelines would you put in place
if you
cf-community, perhaps. One of the problems with the HOF lists that I
have mentioned to Michael (bless his soul for all the hard work he and
Judith put in for the griping of folks like myself) is that they
fragment way too easily and the specialized lists get started too
early and die before they
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