regarding the comment to mention another offer, that is cool if you really have one. It wasn't clear if the poster was recommending a "bluff" which is not a good idea at all.
More important than the offer is how will the experience increase your value in the market. http://jobhacks.wordpress.com/2007/08/01/career-equity/
In the long run, a "bluff" is a real bad idea. What right will you ever have expecting open honest communication from someone else if one of the first things you ever did to them WASN'T?
thats all there is to the registration, an email address and password. With that the user can save their work history from which their graph is built. they can then find companies that are in their graph, get feeds from those companies regarding milestones and openings and save companies of interest. keep track of companies they submitted their resume to. they also can edit and add companies to the database,
Yes, I did mention exactly that in the post "Granted, the blame is mostly ours, due to a less than attractive design and muddy benefit message, maybe most could not see past that to get to the business proposition."
issue of real estate and equity are not verbally binding. this has the potential to turn bad. they have something to divide, the equity. are you saying they have not incorporated and dont have stock? seems that you are not paranoid and this is indeed a red flag. Keep looking or wait until the equity issue is resolved.
Don't even think about it. And tell them exactly why. The team will not survive the stresses of early startup life with this decision put off. It's going to be a hard discussion even now, just imagine how bad this will be with revenue coming in the door, pressure to grow, some members of the team really stepping up and others not working out.
You have a BA in economics and have worked for some fairly large companies, and, like me, you're a company founder. Tell me, is this ever a discussion that is "easy"? And, is this discussion ever "settled"? Seems to me, it's settled exactly until they (a) get funding or (b) hire a CEO, at which point all bets are off anyhow.
The fact that the rounded rectangle boxes are not evenly spaced shows lack of attention to detail. (yes I'm being a jerk here, but I've found that negative feedback from others has helped me make my project better)
The graphics are grainy. They should be stark and clean. There is too much use of two colors. It feels too monochromatic.
You need a better descriptions to communicate what benefit you have for people to join. Why should I join? There needs to be a more obvious "in your face" explanation highlighting something. The message should be along the lines of "If I join, then _______ is a possibility for me" - what I mean here is that this is the feeling that needs to be evoked within your visitors perception when they read one of the rounded boxes.
The graph could be a 3D graph, it will look unique and at the same time convey a hidden message to explore the site. It's a subtle message that if somebody sees an object of depth then they have an inclination to explore the site
On the about page, you need to have a margin on the sides. Feel free to make the font size bigger.
I click on the "about" section and have no clear way to get back to the main page - BIG MISTAKE! I see that there is an orange "return" button, but this is not intuitive. Clicking on the logo to take us back to the main page would be more intuitive for users and it will let people believe that this is easily navigable.
