Equity & salary negotiation in an early-stage startup

This is a tough one, but after doing some research, I found a very complete and long article about this subject. So I decided to summarize it and make it simple to understand, to get a better idea of equity and salary negotiation in an early-stage startup. Funding If the company is in an early-stage, …

How Startup Funding Works

Startups have several rounds of funding, and you need to know this before starting to negotiate a salary or to even consider a job proposal. Source

How to survive working from home

I am the laziest person in the world when it comes to physical activity. You would be surprised at the amount of time I can spend in a pajama and slippers. This is why working from home was appealing and also dangerous because it could turn me into a nasty hermit. So, this is what …

Why I appreciate a good boss #MeToo

I have been working since I was 17, it is pretty usual to start working at a young age in my country if you come from a low-income family. However, I was not, I was an early-graduated girl that did not know what to do with her life at the age of 17, so I …

Quote of the year

"Consider equity as an extra that could come in the future, but be comfortable with your starting salary no matter what".

Startup or Steady job?

As I told you in my the "about me section", I was working at a solid, international e-commerce platform before I decided to go the Startup way. I read a lot before making my decision and came up with a pros and cons list of my own: Pros of working at a startup: Work from …

What you must be ready to do when working at a startup

I don't know about you guys, but I feel like the advertising world is full of ego and bullshit, at least here, at the South-American country I live in. Everybody is a show-off, everybody wants to look cool and everybody tells everybody that everything they do is cool, awesome, amazing. They are mostly quite mediocre …

How I got to work at a startup

I was working at this big e-commerce company, doing something that paid well and had an interesting name, but that had nothing to do with digital marketing at all. What I mean is that any person that could use a computer and spoke English could do it. It was a great company, they would pay …