How quitting my corporate job for my startup dream f*cked my life up

Doing a startup was a long journey and I was putting myself under so much pressure by giving such a f*ck about what other people think. Day by day, I was getting lonelier and more depressive as I avoided social occasions. My startup progress was not as fast as my social circle imagined it to …

Flexible Hours • Inside GitHub

Don’t agree wholeheartedly with the flexible hours (you need some time where the whole team is together), but do agree with the unlimited paid time off policy. I for one have a job with flexible/concentrated hours which result in a 1.5 days “not behind the desk” where I can plan my time in a manner …

Getting to your minimum hourly rate

So how do you calculate your hourly rate? That’s easy, it’s the salary you want to make, divided by 52 weeks a year, divided by 40 hours a week. Simple! Right, right?! It’s a tad more complex than you might thing at first: Next to showing one how to calculate the minimum rate, it also …

Starting + Sustaining

Starting + Sustaining will help you plan, launch, and run your own web application with less pain and fewer mistakes. By Garret Dimon of Sifter. If you like the aforementioned Bootstrapping a Software Product presentation you’ll love the book. Starting + Sustaining: A book and spreadsheet to help you launch and maintain a web application …

Your Startup is Doomed

Sometimes, after I speak at a tech conference, someone will come up to me and say: “Hey! You should check out my new startup.” They give me the elevator pitch, then they ask: “What do you think?” They’re beaming. They’re enthusiastic. And there is no polite way to say: “Statistically speaking, you’d be doomed to …