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My company is doing fine, we had a nice growth compared to last year and everything is fine in my personal life. It’s just I get these “fed up” moments that last sometimes weeks. I just feel I can’t even deal with anything anymore and do only the most mandatory tasks some kind of repulsion…
I launched my first start-up and after years of insanely hard work and it failed. I then launched my second start-up right after. I have nothing left in me though, I am severely exhausted, burnt out, which has led me to be extremely depressed, miserable and very unhappy. I literally have no energy left. I…
I run a very successful law practice. I have a ton of clients and I am successful with a solid reputation. I got very inspired and motivated to start a career site and job-matching platform for attorneys. We have had many viral articles and the site works seamlessly (mobile-friendly, uses the top AI tech to…
I started my own design and marketing business over 7 years ago. I have been a 1 woman band ever since and it has been more than successful, which I am really proud of! In order to enhance and grow my business even more, I decided to get a business partner that evidently has social…
We’ve just launched our company and the offering is really broad. I’m finding that my co-founder is very much taking it in a direction that I don’t agree with. It’s coming up on six months now – I’m tempted to scale back and not close the company but just re-group for fear that we’re going…
I understand money is paid back to the investors – but how much money are early employees supposed to get in the pool that is left over – say they owned 2-4% of the company
I have two senior managers in my company. (Hesitant to say co-founders as I started the business and have since brought them onboard). One who is a great project manager (our business) but turns out isn’t right for a strategic role in the buiness (being a partner, strategy, overall mgmt etc). We initially agreed on…
To start with, my co-founder thinks that he’s GOD. Apart from being married and being in a committed relationship, he is having an affair with an employee. That employee looks after marketing. Now she is supposed to look after most of the departments. In the last 2 years, she hasn’t been able to achieve anything…
I have a start-up with 2 partners. One year in. All 3 of us have been full-time on development. Pre-revenue. One more person has planned to join us since initial planning began with the plan to be 25% equal split. The three existing partners put in $20k each, no salaries paid. Q1: What would be…
My wife and I are thinking of starting the entrepreneurship journey. We have a great idea (SaaS in LegalTech), we’ve done market research, we’ve talked to potential clients, and we’re about to hire a developer to create an MVP. Currently, we both have full-time jobs. We live in a very high-cost city, have over $3k…
The investment he has put in to the company has gone in to his directors loan to be paid back to him through the company but he also requested he was paid the same wages as me and my business partner from his first day of investment. Is this normal? He’s basically getting 30% of…
Not sure how to phrase things (or maybe I’m asking the wrong questions), but I’ll ask it anyway to at least get the conversation started. On Feb 2, I joined as the CTO of a 2yr old startup that had very limited tech capabilities. On April 2, the CEO called me into his office and…
So I just noticed the insane amount of “total compensation” of programmers these days. From 200K for fresh grads to 500K at Facebook for Sr Software Engineers. At that rate you’d easily clear 1M in over 4 years which is the median time it takes for any company to be successful. If you were a…
This question is for software devs who have had multi-year employment gap & returned back to employment after the gap. I am wondering if you had to pad your resume with fake experience or what approach did you take to get employed again after a multi-year gap? After more than 5 years working as a…
I have an extensive background in Sales / Sales Mgmt / Management / Bus. Dev. / Operations and want to work for a startup. I’m not a 20-something, but want to be part of a company ready to grow. How do I position myself to be looked at as a viable contributor rather than someone…
