You just made my day. You are the second person that I have spoken to this week who believes it is more like 1996, and I definitely hope so. I had a good exit (3 f**ing weeks to late) with my startup during the first wave and we all know the difference between good and great. Really glad that I can experience this all over again. And btw back then I had to fend off angry grannies because I did not let them invest back them (imaging 80 year olds screaming at you, no kidding)
Thanks On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:20 AM, Peter Bell <[email protected]> wrote: > @Martin, > > Quite! Although I've heard some reasoned discussion that it's more like > 1996. Which means there is still a little time to lay up some profits while > the money is out there. > > This is an amazing time to work at a funded start-up. Good cash comp, > interesting work, some upside in the form of options. Just make sure to save > a chunk of your salary so when everything finally does implode you'll be > able to ride out the down times. > > And there's an easy way to tell approximately when the good times will end. > It will be about six months after your Grandmother sees an infomercial and > puts retirement money into a special hedge fund selling derivatives that > somehow avoid the sophisticated investor laws but that are backed by a > secondary market in non-public stock of tech start ups. Once even your > granny (and apologies and exclusions to anyone whose grandma actually *is* a > sophisticated wall street trader) is investing in pre-IPO startup shares, > it's time to tune up your Scala and Clojure skills and take a cushy finance > or insurance job for about 6-8 years until the cycle starts again. > > Welcome back to 1996. And now to return to our regularly scheduled > technical programming :) > > Best Wishes, > Peter > > > On May 26, 2011, at 12:25 AM, Martin Wawrusch wrote: > > The whole funding scene is nuts right now, and that trickles down to ruby > developers (and wait for the need for coffeescript/node.js developers). It > is going to get worse though from a hiring perspective, with the IPOs coming > up and even more fresh money available. And yeah, it feels like 1999 again - > one hell of a year :P > > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Peter Bell <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Not at $28/hr. :) >> >> But it certainly is outside of Toronto. I've been to 5 conferences in the >> last two weeks and in every one, pretty much every deck seemed to end with a >> "we're hiring" slide. And most of the positions I was hearing about were >> safely north of $100k/yr. At least in the major US metro markets . . . >> >> Seriously, this is the best labor market I've seen for developers since >> 1999. It's nuts. >> >> I'd still like to know what LivingSocial paid for Glenn and the gang at >> InfoEther . . . >> >> Best Wishes, >> Peter >> >> On May 26, 2011, at 12:10 AM, Alex Katebi wrote: >> >> <517.gif>Hurray!!!<517.gif> The recession is finally over.<517.gif> >> >> >> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 1:02 PM, UTbibapp <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > I sincerely hope that it is appropriate to post this on this mailing >> > list. 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