At a small company, he says he finds it exhilarating to think, "Wow, that's just us!"
According to one Harvard student, employees at larger companies often daydream about working in startups.
"They're losing tons of people to new IPOs," computer science concentrator Octavian S. Timaru '03 says of Alcatel, an established communications firm where he worked last summer. "People inside the company go and start new companies and hire people away form Alcatel."
Employees at large companies often are frustrated that their work isn't making any big waves, he says. But at a pre-IPO startup, things are different.
"You're setting the standard," Timaru says.
A Middle Course
Timaru points out that many big companies are starting to offer attractive stock options to lower-level employees, not just managers.
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