Poll: What's your startup involvement?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2179696

by coderholic • 15 years ago

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coderholic• 15 years ago

Here's a link to the discussion about the HNLondon event http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2179279

davidw• 15 years ago

I have worked at startups in the past.

mtrimpe• 15 years ago

I'm working part-time on my own startup

wheels• 15 years ago

"Where do you work" asked 9 days ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2145250

margaretmit• 15 years ago

I'm working on a project on the side.

jkent• 15 years ago

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.)

benreyes2• 15 years ago

Currently starting a startup (startup'ing) full time. http://cvkitchen.com (CV Builder)

ig1• 15 years ago

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.

benreyes2• 15 years ago

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.

steveklabnik2• 15 years ago

I left my funded startup to go back to school.

blhack• 15 years ago

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"...

steveklabnik2• 15 years ago

http://blog.steveklabnik.com/the-hardest-decision-ive-ever-m...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1916622

frobozz• 15 years ago

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.

krschultz• 15 years ago

Same boat for me, I used to be an employee at a startup but now work for a huge company. Though I voted for sideproject because I'm doing one on my own now.

RK• 15 years ago

Was an employee, but the company mostly fizzled. Now I'm finishing grad school.

lifefundr• 15 years ago

I am working on my project nearly full time. I go to college on the side.

JoeAltmaier• 15 years ago

I'm contracting to a startup.

rlivsey• 15 years ago

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.

dhyasama• 15 years ago

I do high frequency trading on the side.

ashleyw• 15 years ago

I hope you don't mind me asking, but how far from the exchange are your servers, and where do you get your live data from?

rdtsc• 15 years ago

One option is missing: "I am not interested in startups at all, just like reading about tech news and participating in discussions."

DanielStraight• 15 years ago

This would (for the most part) be my answer. I came to HN for the tech, not the business.

jconnop• 15 years ago

I would count myself in this category also.

allwein• 15 years ago

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.

dochtman• 15 years ago

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.

infocaptor• 15 years ago

I own a product and now building a second one. Founder and developer of http://www.mockuptiger.com

kleinsch• 15 years ago

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).

NathanKP• 15 years ago

I agree. My personal situation is that I am consulting for a startup to pay my bills and bootstrap my own startup.

Silhouette• 15 years ago

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.

ramonRecuero• 15 years ago

I'm currently working part-time on my own startup

njharman• 15 years ago

I'm employee at a post-startup

Nemisis7654• 15 years ago

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.

mgrouchy• 15 years ago

Currently a startup employee who plans to eventually graduate to startup founder.

anthonycerra• 15 years ago

There is no graduation, just start!

cambriar• 15 years ago

I would like an internship with a startup. Meanwhile, keeping the projects moving.

punkrider• 15 years ago

I've worked at the same startup for 10 yrs

nostrademons• 15 years ago

How about "I had a startup in the past"?

justin_vanw• 15 years ago

Missing option: Startup acquired, golden handcuffs.

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