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  1. @pswam I'm familiar with those. I just don't think that we've fully considered the landscape of opportunities.
  2. Well, that and the potential for massive rewards if the company works. Which we, the founders, believe in. But we can't blame skeptics. :-p
  3. You'll learn the things you need to know and make the connections that you need to make for your next company. Maybe it will be your own.
  4. Honestly the best thing that we've been able to offer is education. We say: if you work hard, you'll learn more here than anywhere else.
  5. True autonomy gets harder and harder as projects involve more people. Some projects need more people. Are these projects just doomed?
  6. There are indications that it's meaningful work that makes people happy. But I remember as a grad student that meaning follows autonomy.
  7. But most indications are the merit pay stinks. Evidently it's good enough to pull high level talent, but look at the mess of finance.
  8. Is the best possibility really just leaving to start your own company if you really think you're so hot? Sucks to the employer and employee.
  9. Then he left the company. Surely we can figure out something better.
  10. In the first year of employment at Northrop-Grumann, my partner Ed Berlin saved the co. $3MM. He earned $19k that year, and a plaque.
  11. How far does compensation range? Currently there's only stock options, but your performance is averaged with the rest of the company.
  12. The business model for employing engineers/scientists/even management is quite broken. Productivity ranges over three orders of magnitude.
  13. In finance, personal returns are, roughly, a multiple of actual returns which are roughly a multiple of money managed. Hence huge salaries.
  14. Question for financiers/economists/engineers/the curious. What can be done about linking engineers performance to compensation?
  15. The pets.coms of the greentech revolution are among us. Then again, so perhaps are the Ciscos and the Googles.
  16. Green is the new bubble. The science is so much harder than that of the dot-boom, and people are just as clueless.
  17. Startups feel like a time warp. We've been here three weeks and it feels like it's been months. We're even outgrowing our space.
  18. @annienalbandian how are you?
  19. @annienalbandian I have been great! I'm living in Berkeley and started a cleantech company about a year and a half ago. It's going well!
  20. Made it through Milwaukee airport security, to find a seating area named the 'recombobulation zone.' The airport is filled with mood music.