Opinions sought...
May. 14th, 2003 05:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dennyToday I received my first ever offer to work for pie-in-the-sky. I'm intrigued, tempted, and deeply suspicious. If anyone has any experience/opinions to cast on the following offer, please please share them with me...
Among the things that make me suspicious are the deeply sales-oriented feel to the email, including what feels a lot like the mass-mailing bullshit trick of using my name towards the end of the text, to make it feel personalised. But I am looking for something new in my career, and this, if legit, would be very interesting to me. I just don't know how cynical to be about the whole thing...
Update: I should probably have mentioned that his .sig included a link to the company's website, which has a fairly professional looking webmail system up and running, including an offer of free trial accounts to interested potential customers. So they're not in the early early stages here - which makes me wonder if they've lost their original developer, and if so, why.
From: [ name and email address ] Sent: 13 May 2003 16:05 To: [ my professional contact address ] Subject: Web project Hi Denny My name is [ name ], I'm the founder of a tech start-up company based in the Greater London area. My reason for contacting you is simple - I'm looking for a good perl developer. How did I find you? I did a google search using the following search criteria: "perl developer" "uk" "cv" My company is developing a stand-alone Web-based email service that will provide custom email solutions to a large international professionals market. Business highlights: - Untapped market niche - Defendable competitive advantage - Cost effective traffic-driving marketing strategy - Subscription-based revenue model - Fixed technology needs - Low monthly overheads To prove the viability of our business model, we plan to launch a prototype Web mail facility with minimal capital investment by July 2003. In order to keep capital requirements to a minimum during test marketing, a team of entrepreneurial minded professionals provide their time and experience - on a part-time basis - in exchange for part ownership in the business. We currently seek a perl developer to complete this team. I'd really like to discuss this opportunity with you on the telephone Denny. Just give me 15 minutes to talk you through our business model. I look forward to talking with you. [ SNIP signoff and .sig ]
Among the things that make me suspicious are the deeply sales-oriented feel to the email, including what feels a lot like the mass-mailing bullshit trick of using my name towards the end of the text, to make it feel personalised. But I am looking for something new in my career, and this, if legit, would be very interesting to me. I just don't know how cynical to be about the whole thing...
Update: I should probably have mentioned that his .sig included a link to the company's website, which has a fairly professional looking webmail system up and running, including an offer of free trial accounts to interested potential customers. So they're not in the early early stages here - which makes me wonder if they've lost their original developer, and if so, why.
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Date: 2003-05-14 10:20 am (UTC)criteria: "perl developer" "uk" "cv", just seems like it was written by someone who just finished his spiel on how you could be a millionaire by next month, just send five dollars to......
Be careful mate. Looks dodgy.