Is it common for founding engineers at startups to buy software and memory out-of-pocket?
10th January 2012
My answer to Is it common for founding engineers at startups to buy software and memory out-of-pocket? on Quora
Absolutely not, provided the laptop etc belongs to the company and isn’t considered a gift to you.
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