i completely agree with the fact that you should never take a job just solely because of the money...sometimes its hard because if you share your pay with other, they would say, but why?? only you yourself can feel good about it
I've been using Parse to build one my apps votespot. As the others said, it's one of the easiest framework to integrate with your project. The team are very helpful and listen to users problems, they even answer emails on weekends. Again kudos to the team. Sorry if I've been bugging you guys with questions and non-sense issues =)
Don't really understand on how much potential money you can get from this? You're saying a max of 250 k per class and each group will just get 2500 - 5000 max?
It's designed to be a very small round. Much like with other incubator concepts, the money is a formality. The nice thing about Dandelion is that applicants typically have a great day job that is paying their bills and living expenses, so 100% of dandelion's investment can go directly into the product.
How is the money a formality? I don't understand what Dandelion plans to add beyond the money. The pitch suggests that this is for people looking for 2.5-5k for design, marketing, etc. It makes no mention of mentorship or any other benefits.
How long do you expect the process from application->funding to be? If its longer than 8 weeks I would rather raise my 5k elsewhere(like with a credit card). Maybe set a time limit on how long a class can exist before it is considered full(even if its less than 100 companies).
Why 100 companies? Is it just a nice, round number or is there thought behind it?
Those are excellent questions. The best way for us to address them is to update more of the copy on the site. The biggest thing we help with is validation, but we also help create winning teams, early hires, etc.
The number 100 is intended to be large enough to make the investment truly diverse, large enough to attract a wide variety of talent and experience in each class, but small enough to be filled relatively easily. There is also no harm in applying multiple times or in scrapping a project and joining someone else's or submitting another idea. From the standpoint of the investor, it's an investment in people, and the specifics of the structure address the realities of risk aversion, talent acquisition, etc.
I think if you want to join a startup, the best time would be really straight after college. At that point in time you usually will find individuals who are motivated, fresh, and very well driven, which are very important in startups. Big company names in resumes are never bad, but there are many other ways to compensate that in life (side-projects, brilliant hacks, contribution to open source projects). I guess it's just a matter of choice/preference, but it's never wrong to go one over the other. If you want to have a safe/no risk life, go with the large companies.. if you want to take some risk, add more flavors to your life, startup is the way to go. No one is born the same way, so either way is perfectly acceptable. I just feel like the author emphasizes that if you join a startup straight after you graduate then you're doomed for the rest of your life, which absolutely is not true.
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
VoteSpot is an easy way to create and vote polls around you. Think of localmind for polling. It is still currently in private beta and we are looking for a few more beta testers for the app with a TestFlight account.
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