Following the disbursement of Rs. 10 lakh by the Andhra Pradesh government for the family of each victim killed in the stampede on the Godavari last week, we did a small exercise to put a value on the life of an average Indian. The exercise itself is rather simple – you divide India’s GDP by its…
Startup salary survey
I think I’ve come up with what I think is a really cool metric to value the tradeoff between your salary at a startup and the equity stake that you are given. For lack of a better name, I call this “multiple of foregone income”: Let’s say that your “market salary” is $ 100,000 (pulling…