There is no job descriptions and designation in a startup. You need to do everything as per the requirements.  
 Happening same with me and i know many people working in startup its happening with all of them too.

Consultant

Welcome to your new role. Some places they'll appreciate what you're doing and may even help you transition to what you wanna do. But this doesn't sound like that kinda place.

Brand Marketing Manager

I used to work as an analyst with a VC fund prior to this startup stint. I chose this role because I would get exposure to how debt is treated in the startup ecosystem. When I was on boarded, it wa...

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I used to work as an analyst with a VC fund prior to this startup stint. I chose this role because I would get exposure to how debt is treated in the startup ecosystem. When I was on boarded, it was clear that I needed to scout my deals, analyse the documents and see how things go through till the money is disbursed to the startup. Now, a new head has been hired who is a sales person. He expects us to not curate deals but make 150 calls a day and just play the game of quantity and not quality. It’s been not even 3 months here (I have performed better than the people who joined with me or maybe even a couple of months before). 

Q. How should I tackle this because I am not a sales person at all  

Q. How should I approach the founder, who is fairly egoistic and does not like it when people do not agree with his ideas?

How to tackle a job description problem in a Startup

Analyst

How to tackle a job description problem in a Startup- Grapevine

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So i joined this mature startup 10 months back, and my role as per JD was team leader. Till date I am doing the IC role and doing all day sales calls. I have highlighted the same to my manager and skip level, but always getting answer like it is new product, market situation is no good, we believe in lean structure etc. 

I am tired of doing same shit everyday. What’s your suggestion?

Need some advice !

Sales Manager

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

It can be either a strange workplace policy, an altercation with a manager or absolutely anything else.

What's the most toxic incident you've come across at your workplace?

Lately, I’ve been at a bit of a weird place at work. I’ve been working at a startup for the last 1 year. This is my first startup experience. It had been a pretty good experience thus far, as I’ve started doing well, the trust on me has increased, and the kind of asks have become weird.

I’ve increasingly started doing founders office work, which includes helping with the MIS, build projections. As I’ve started working on this, what I’m realizing that a lot of it is hogwash. A lot of the transaction that is reported is not meaningful. Additionally, we are reporting unachievable projections, even though it is evident it won’t work out.

It’s kinda on the fence, and I don’t feel like doing it. But then again, this might just be how most startups work. 

Have you guys faced this? If yes, what would you do in my position?

Ethical dilemma at work: need guidance

Product Manager

Hey grapevine folks,

I am working in founder's office (growth and strategy) role at an early startup which involves B2B Sales.

I am asked to do cold calls to startup founders and leadership. 

I sometimes find it like I am a salesman or doing a bpo job.

I am constantly worried about my career. Please can anyone guide are my feelings legit will it affect my career.

Cold Calling is a low level job?

Hi all, I am from a tier 1 MBA college and have worked in a startup post graduation. Currently doing strategy and ops planning role in a founder's office role. How can I move to VC?
I don't have the CGPA to get into an MBB or IB roles but am aware that VC hire folks with operating exp as well. Is this a viable option for me?

How to move to VC roles?

Growth Manager

I'm in Founder's office role, and a part of the work requires prospecting for hires for a team. 
On the first day, I pulled out a list of potential hires, but it was brushed aside.

Now the team head posts on social media that they are looking for someone to fill that role (I had list for), and referral will get the approx INR 2.4L 

My monthly salary is also not INR 2.4L!

I am so pissed. 
How do I convey this professionally and (also ask for the slice of cake)

I obviously have data ready and can get someone to join, but it won't get me even 1 p from 2.4L

Need advice

Want to build a AI startup. Finding it impossible as 
1) Incumbents with distribution and data will easily build AI to their products
2) I don’t have PhD to build something truly innovative.
3) For consumer space, I don’t think it’s possible to build a new device or a OS etc (Incumbents again!)

I seriously wonder how startup founders start something! Do they just BS VCs about nice ideas and raise money? Any tips *from actual founders*  will be useful

Can’t think of good startup ideas!

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Am I underpaid?
I have been in VC ecosystem since 1 year and have a salary of 40 k per month. This is my first job. I am from an average college.

VC Salary

VC Analyst

So, I am an analytics guy with almost 5.5 YoE under my belt. My latest transition was to Phonepe that I made this year (feeling shitty here already, given the kind of work creating almost no impact)
I saw a post on LinkedIn where the CEO of this startup recently raised some pre-seed funding (~1.5mn). Since I was following them for almost 6-7 months before this, I reached out to the founder on LinkedIn. 
We first had a virtual call where we got to know each other and after that discussion, he called me over to his place where we further talked about the idea, the scope and the future while also discussing what I could bring to the table. Post that, we met again, and this time with the other co-founder who deep-dived a slight bit into the tech stack that I had worked on.
It seems that all is going well, but the founder, in the first face to face meeting told me that for the time being (for almost the next 3-4 months), he'll be able to pay me a monthly amount which is less than half of my current in hand pay, post which it'll be reviewed and adjusted accordingly. How do I negotiate this now? Also, since the team size is super small (only 5 full time folks and one customer support part timer), how do I negotiate on what equity I take (looking for a benchmark number here)?

Joining an early stage startup - Need guidance

I’ve applied and interviewed for jobs before but this is the first time I have an interview for a start up, that too with the cofounder. Apart from the role technicalities, what are some questions I should ask the Cofounder?

Interview with Cofounder of a startup

Contact me at +91 9760532904 who have some experience in closing deals on calls. 

Looking for someone who is ready to build the startup from scratch and mainly focus on disrupting the market.

Looking for Sales Guy for my Startup

Founder

I am a new grad working at a big MNC as a Data Analyst. It's extremely beurocratic and slow. We do meets all day and no work, it's as if we are paid for meetings. I was quite excited about it as I though I would be working on interesting ML projects (I find ML and AI quite interesting). But all I have been working on is projects where you try to maintain fucked up legacy stuff. 

I see a way out, startups where I would actually build stuff, use my skills to solve actual problems. Is this perception correct? Will work actually be more interesting and useful in startups?

I am also concerned about the pay? Although I earn a pretty average salary even here, I suspect it might be lower in startups. But I have a gut feeling that I will learn, and grow a lot more working at startups coupled with networking with entrepreneurial people which should result in higher earnings in the long run. Again is this perception correct?

Confused between big corporates and startups

Data Scientist

I am currently interviewing for a role that really excites me. The product and the problem excites me too. 

The option is to take a pay cut or go in on equity. 
How do I negotiate my way through this? 
What are the important questions to be asked? 
How do I ascertain that I am not cheated on with fair remuneration?

Early age startup Marketing role.

1. I am having a strong problem statement, which is thoroughly validated, along with a business plan, but I am not working or starting it as I lack confidence because I don't have a team in place.

( I am an IIM graduate and currently a product manager - giving these details just to get a sense of my background, which might help in the type of suggestions from your side).


2. How can I find a co-founder/partner/core team member? Please advise me on where to look for co-founders or people that share a similar mindset. 
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Please help me to navigate through this situation. Thanks in Advance 🙏

Need Advice - How to begin working on a Idea/Startup ?

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

I am working in a Pre Seed GenAI Startup (2020 Founded) as Head of Engineering (Team of 20 with 5-6 in Engineering, No CTO) 

It's been 3.5 years (3yrs Full Time + 6mon Internship) Previously it is in EdTech now in GenAI Space 

My CTC is 8 LPA + 0.45% ESOPs (10-12L in 25cr valuation). 
Skills: Nodejs, Nextjs, Monorepos, MongoDB, AWS, Serverless

1-2yrs ago we were thinking about scaling the tech team, etc but then that EdTech model started failing and then we went to a war time after that we pivoted currently also we are burning money revenue is there but very less (25% of the expense)

I was of the view that I want to lead teams and scale products That's why I was there in the team It can be the case tomorrow if we scale 

but Now I am confused whether I should switch my job and or stick with the startup maybe the startup grow tomorrow or a big VC fund us to scale (as I have ESOPs) or it will just be a waste of time or opportunity cost

Please guide 🙏 Anyone with a similar startup experience would really appreciate your help 🙏

Need Career Guidance in Tech (Switch or Not?)

Software Engineer

I am quite decently experienced overall (4+ yoe), but new to a startup, the tech folks have amazing background and technical expertise however the product teams sucks, the head of product doesn't seem to have experience in product or tech, he is a marketing guy, who have hired freshers for design and product and my god they are really bad, they do stuff in multiple iterations, don't have clarity on anything, don't know basic components of web and mobile user interfaces, and are arrogant as f to their teeth, always bad mouthing , writing long ass paragraphs on slack, every thing they miss in requirements and design is being raised as a bug in my work, and I am kind of helpless here, I have come out as an incompetent engineer in front of the company

Asking senior folks here how to deal with these little shitheads

Leaving the company is not an option as I recently switched, 

Please help.

Also I can't punch them as they both are ladies

How to deal/work professionally with inexperienced non-technical and arrogant product managers in a startup?

Software Developer

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I work as a Product manager at a series A well funded startup.
This company is run by a solo founder/CEO.

This is a wannabe tech and product startup that does not care about their product at all. The internal review meetings get 5 minutes on product and 55 minutes on business and operations on a good day!

All they care about is how to run operations and tech just works on automation instead of building the product for the end user. Every OKR cycle runs for two months where OKRs are set for product but we end up building internal tools because things get "re-prioritised" and operations "can not miss targets".

The worst part is that the strategy changes every 2 months and every week, the CEO keeps adding new "wants". Almost like a baby seeing shiny new toys.
At this stage, the product has become a mess with no identity at all!

This baby always says "But is that even do-able" acts critical and tries to seem smart in front of their employees while lying to the investors and board every other week that we are a tech and product company.

I don't know if this happens at other startups in India. 

Would love to hear what y'all have experienced.

Identifying a Baby founder

You sound like a tech bro, who thinks that only tech runs the world. Huge companies like Tata, reliance etc are built on solid operations and business insights.  
  
 Tech is enabler, if the founder is smart with business and operations, most likely he will make a good business, and unless you start valuing things beyond tech also, you will keep hopping jobs and cribbing why people don’t value you.

Senior Product Manager

4yoe Engineer turned Product Manager. It's been 8 months I joined this B2B SaaS startup as an APM. Engineering team... mostly interns. Most of my time goes into execution following up with devs. Is the PR reviewed, is the bug fix deployed. No Jira, scrum, sprint planning whatsoever.

CEO runs the whole show. Only fear driven product management. I have no idea what it means to work on vision or strategy. My career has started off with a shitty foundation. Everyday I feel like quitting. What should I do? Quit right away or wait n switch to a better company?

Not sure what Product management I am doing

The title speaks for itself.

As a fresher, should I focus only on developing my experience or should I care about funding, number of employees and all that stuff?

By the way this startup is a part of YC.

Working at a Pre-Seed or Seed stage startup?

Data Analyst

Go ahead, ask if we pushed founders to commit fraud.

AMA: Worked at tier 2 VC - got in post a few years of workex and a tier 2 Indian uni

What stops you from *stealing* an idea that you found mind-blowing from a pitch of a startup trying to get a seed funding?

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