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Note to self: determine if they have any IP policy stashed away somewhere.

The startup existed as its own corporation before they hired me; in fact, they hired me because they liked the startup.

Retainer--that's not a bad idea. So they could potentially hire me out for X hours per month, and there would be an upper bound on X?

Any chance your current employer could become a paying customer?

Already are, actually.

Do you know of any examples where this has been done?

If you fail even by doing the right things, you are tragic, and I wouldn't call that a failure because I believe in rebirth.

Off-topic: what's your measure of success?

That is some seriously encouraging commentary. Thanks.

Good point!

Good suggestion, I'll have to think about that.

Then again, the startup definitely has enough work to keep me busy full-time, and taking a 1/2 cut in pay to work 20 hrs a week on the startup is almost worse than going to $0 pay to go as fast as humanly possible.

Yes, it is. They could offer a lot of promotion, but our biggest challenge right now isn't exposure, it's (no surprise) revenue.

The work from home or part-time arrangement sounds OK. He has already hinted at that. As someone else has said, I worry a bit about IP in that case (although I never signed any agreement with my employer).