{"id":578,"date":"2010-12-26T16:35:06","date_gmt":"2010-12-26T20:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/?p=578"},"modified":"2014-04-07T14:50:56","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T18:50:56","slug":"what-is-the-best-way-to-evaluate-a-potential-startup-to-work-at-full-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/what-is-the-best-way-to-evaluate-a-potential-startup-to-work-at-full-time\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the best way to evaluate a potential startup to work at full-time?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One vector:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I always recommend to select an early-stage start-up by evaluating who your manager will be, a far narrower task and one that is often manageable earlier in your career with less beta than assessing the prospects for a startup.<\/p>\n<p>If your manager is stellar, at a minimum, you will learn and stretch your abilities.  Moreover, if your manager is an outstanding engineer or director of something or first-class entrepreneur, he will have many exciting opportunities in next 1-10 years and <i>if you are talented and display an outstanding work ethic he will be begging you to join him at his next endeavor<\/i>.&#8221; &#8212; <strong>Keith Rabois<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is very accurate.  Well said, Keith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One vector: &#8220;I always recommend to select an early-stage start-up by evaluating who your manager will be, a far narrower task and one that is often manageable earlier in your career with less beta than assessing the prospects for a startup. If your manager is stellar, at a minimum, you will learn and stretch your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quoted","tag-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":686,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions\/686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}