yossorion

What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.

This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would

kevmo

git checkout master
git pull origin master

npm install
gulp 

git add <-f> dist
git commit -m "Add /dist commit for gh-pages deployment"

git subtree split --prefix dist <master>

jbenet

a simple git branching model (written in 2013)

This is a very simple git workflow. It (and variants) is in use by many people. I settled on it after using it very effectively at Athena. GitHub does something similar; Zach Holman mentioned it in this talk.

Update: Woah, thanks for all the attention. Didn't expect this simple rant to get popular.

richieforeman

# Run this once
openssl genrsa -des3 -out ca.key 4096
openssl req -new -x509 -days 365 -key ca.key -out ca.crt

kachok

var turk = {};

(function() {
	var param = function(url, name ) {
	  name = name.replace(/[\[]/,"\\\[").replace(/[\]]/,"\\\]");
	  var regexS = "[\\?&]"+name+"=([^&#]*)";
	  var regex = new RegExp( regexS );
	  var results = regex.exec( url );
	  return ( results == null ) ? "" : results[1];
	}

defnull

mkdir heroku
cd heroku/
virtualenv --no-site-packages env
source env/bin/activate
pip install bottle gevent
pip freeze > requirements.txt

cat >app.py <<EOF
import bottle
import os

kurtraschke

import processing.video.*;

MovieMaker mm;
OSMMercator om;
PFont theFont;


void setup() {
  size(1280, 720);
  smooth();