re: Working for a Start Up. Who has experience with it?

The summer before I graduated I landed a job with a start up tech company. $12 an hour and I was allowed to work at home and whenever I wanted while coding reports. It was me and 3 others working and I was the only tech guy on staff. Probably the best job I have ever had before graduating college. It propelled me during interviews and with landing my first full time position.

Looking back, that company is toast now, although the ideas we were implementing were bleeding edge technology. It simply needed bigger backing and a better development staff instead of a college student. The same guy though that went with that start up, took his ideas and applied it to another start up that does some real impressive data analysis based off of social media. Upon reflecting on things, I would certainly work with a start up again, yet it would require me being completely sold on the idea, or have very good funding, in order to make a career switch. Start ups are great for college students looking for experience, and cheap labor.