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webkitchen.co.uk

11 pointsmadmotive17 comments

How much stock are you offering? $50K is a very small salary for a developer in Boston.

EDIT: What I was really trying to ask is whether they are looking for a true co-founder or just a paid developer. My original question came out malformed, in retrospect.

Sorry about the 5 duplicate comments - technical error, apparently.

edgeztv - here is a chance to join a YC funded startup building a kickass product and be pretty much employee no: 1 ie a cofounder and you are cautious about salary.

Grab this kind of opportunity with both hands - pete and his team are a smart bunch with an awesome idea. Salary considerations ahouldn't be in your head when you are assessing the opportunity. Isn't $50k nough to live off?

I don't care about the salary - I care about the stock, which, if you read carefully, is the focus of my question :)

I would be happy on 50k if I had say 10-20% of the company. I would not be happy with 50k, however if it was 5% or less.

(Of course this all also largely depends on the idea, which I don't know about yet)

What I really meant to ask in my previous post is whether they are looking for a co-founder or just a paid developer.

In retrospect, phrasing it in terms of salary and stock was the wrong way to frame that question.

i don't think a single employee will ever get 10-20% of the company

If you're interested in applying then please do get in touch and tell us more about yourself Edgeztv.

Sumon, thanks for the kind comments :)

Sorry if my previous question regarding the 50k salary & stock came out inelegant. What I really meant to ask, is whether you're looking for a co-founder or a paid developer.

I'm employed as a developer right now and I'm almost ready to quit to start my own startup. I have a few projects that I've been working on in my spare time, so I'm not sure that I'd want to join another company unless I really like the idea and would be a co-founder.

Hope that makes sense. Once again, sorry if my previous posts sounded like criticism. I did not intend it that way!

"we've raised just over $180,000 of investment from Paul Graham"

I wonder if pg will be getting into more traditional angel type funding rounds. They've gotta be doing something pretty good to get a funding round like that from the man himself.

I wonder if they need that much financing, i.e. they have something in mind to spend it on.

Hi Guys,

I am the author and also a developer. Doesn't mean there isn't enough love for more though ;)

Peter Nixey

Flex should be your choice only when your inhouse team is not good enough at churning out sweet OOP Actionscript. This is because, using Flex makes your app depend too much on Adobe's components. This is not required in most cases. Writing custom components from scratch is the best option[making Flash IDE your primary choice].Flex should be a secondary option.

[Flex was created to make Flash Platform more accessible to Java developers who are not familiar with the timeline concept]

I still don't understand how startups without hackers work.

The author writes, "I am a long-time developer."

The guy says he's a developer, so maybe they just need another one?

Digg and Elance seemed to turned out okay despite being founded by non-hackers

Digg and Elance were both founded by very technical people though, even if they weren't technically coders. Same thing with Squidoo (Seth Godin was actually a CS major in college IIRC).

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