In A Startup

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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