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Originally Posted by Raev
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Loramin, only someone who went to college could come up with ideas as stupid as "people don't like to be paid more money" and "good people are not important to the success of a startup"
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I certainly didn't get "people don't like to be paid more money" out of "people are motivated by many things other than pay", and on this point Loramin is absolutely right. This is precisely the reason why startups are appealing in the first place - you don't go work at a startup for a handsome salary, you work at a startup because it provides unique challenges and the opportunity to actually be a part of building something that you take interest in from the ground up instead of just warming a desk from nine until five. If you want a handsome salary, go be a warm body at a megacorporation where the degree that qualified you will be put to better use during the job interview than in any of the things you'll actually do on the job.
However, on his point about the importance of the quality of a startup's programmers, I completely disagree. The quality of the programmers is pretty much the
only thing that matters to a startup's success, which is why IT entrepreneurialism has in many cases become a kind of one-man endeavor where a single talented programmer with a good idea and the means to write a piece of software can become an overnight multimillionaire with the right VC invester. Sure, good startup companies include other things; QA, product designers, marketing, team management, etc., but show me a tech startup that doesn't first of all have competent, talented programmers and you'll be showing me a failed tech startup.
Anyway, on the topic at hand I have a few comments but nothing has really gotten underneath my skin. No one has said anything especially stupid yet, I'm disappointed in all of you.