Is this a roundabout way of saying that they wish to hire folks on a short term basis, make them work really hard, pay pennies on the dollar and then fire them?

  • Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip
    34·
    1 day ago

    This sounds like an incubator but you didn’t get to take the startup with you when it’s ready for launch… Which defeats the point of an incubator

    • MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      1 day ago

      Apparently “do the work for the exposure” has reached the startup bro community.

      “Help us build a new million dollar company from the ground up but keep zero equity” is certainly an interesting pitch.

  • scytale@piefed.zipEnglish
    55·
    2 days ago

    Want to make a million dollars a year?

    1. Work with me
    1. ??
    1. You won’t make a million dollars a year working with me.
  • Deestan@lemmy.world
    631·
    2 days ago

    Here, I’ll translate:

    You will get minimum pay.

    You must praise me.

    I will fire you soon.

    You must thank me for firing you.

  • fibojoly@sh.itjust.works
    29·
    2 days ago

    I have 8 figures and for X$ I’ll teach you how to build a 7 figure business where you… teach people how to earn 6 figures… teaching…

    Yeah.

  • Kalothar@lemmy.ca
    34·
    2 days ago

    No, they are going to do some bullshit like have you come to them with your business idea that you dont have enough money for. If they think your idea isn’t shit, I bet they “hire” you as a business partner with some shit contract where they get a percentage of your business when it’s successful.

    They probably will even ask you to put up a certain amount of money to show your commitment (which depending on the amount will be used to pay yourself basically). I also bet there is some launch program, like 6 weeks or 12 weeks or something. Then you leave the “nest” aka we stop paying for you and cut you off from the services we already used for our core business (of stealing business ideas or entering predatory partnerships) and now you have to fly on your own.

      • grindemup@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 day ago

        Lol so you are denigrating companies that don’t take VC funding? I imagine you’d have criticisms for companies which are VC-funded.

        My company is bootstrapped which means we are forced to grow in a sustainable way, we listen to our customers and optimize the product for their experience, and we don’t have to listen to any investors.

        I’m very curious why “bootstrap” would be any sort of dogwhistle.

    • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 day ago

      This meme made me look up the term “bootstrapped.”

      Which then made me wonder what a “bootstrap” is even supposed to look like.

      Which led to a frustrating failure of an image search where I learned that even DuckDuckGo stopped accepting a minus sign to exclude search terms. Trying to look up any combination of “bootstrap -code -coding -web” etc. failed to bring up anything except the purple Bootstrap logo. My search was eventually resolved by separating the word into “boot” and “strap,” but that’s bullshit because according to multiple dictionary sites, “bootstrap” (in reference to a strap attached to a boot) is, indeed, one word. I even tried Google (lord help me), just to confirm this isn’t some niche DDG difference.

      It seems that literal bootstraps are so out of fashion, that simply finding pictures of them is a challenge. Yet people keep using the phrase “pick yourself up by your bootstraps” as if it’s an intuitive symbol everyone understands. I don’t know about you, but I’ve never used bootstraps, and the concept sounds as old-timey as hitching a wagon to a horse.