When I graduated from college in 1997, I had three job offers: Job offer #1 was from Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), a large professional service firm. Job offer #2 was from a medium sized, publicly traded enterprise software company. This company had about 600 employees, and just went public a few years earlier. It was [...]
Entries from March 2010
Career reflections #2: Work for big company or startup?
March 22nd, 2010 · Comments
Tags: Learning and Growing · Recruiting & Job Hunting
Personal updates
March 15th, 2010 · Comments
In the past few weeks I haven’t posted as frequently as before. I’d like to give you an update on what I have been doing. I recently started to aggressively explore my next career move. I will explain why I started job search in a separate post. It takes tons of time to research companies [...]
Tags: Blogging
You should understand Liquidation Preference and Preferred Participation before joining a start-up
March 8th, 2010 · Comments
Before you join the next "exciting, top venture capital firms backed" start-up, you need to understand liquidation preference and preferred participation. As I wrote in Don’t get screwed! Startup questions you should ask before you join a startup — you could totally be screwed by a start-up. You need to know the details of the [...]
Tags: Start-up Success
11 lessons from hard-nosed negotiation with car salesmen
March 1st, 2010 · Comments
I recently bought a new car. I had to admit that I hate to deal with car salesmen. It was one of my least favorite activities. Unfortunately, I needed a car. And I didn’t want to get ripped off. So, I was determined to get a good deal while minimizing my pain. Here are 11 [...]
Tags: Personal Finance
