After working for upstart startup, I thought of a few axioms of working for a small and agile team in a fast and merciless marketplace.
- In a startup, you can have any title you want, say VP of Version Control, but no one reports to you other than yourself.
- In a startup, if you code it, break it, test it, or fix it then you own it.
- In a startup, if one guy call in sick a third of your development team is out.
- In a startup, if you been there longer than 3 years you are most likely been there longer than your CEO.
- In a startup, you have more hats than the Queen of England, and you wear multiple hats at the same time.
- One year in a startup equals 2.7 in a large corporations.
- Would you rather start a startup or upstart a business?
If you have any advice or experience from working in a startup, feel free to share them in the comments.
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Well, I completely agree. After working for a VoIP start-up it feels like I am not at all working now (This is my second fat corporate job).
God, do I miss those days!