[temphn]

  Another thing that made this situation complicated was 
  that Kyle and I are recently engaged. 

This is a cute article but for obvious reasons completely inapplicable to anyone else seeking a job at a startup.

[wetzler]

I wrote this article because I wished it existed when I was going through this. Even something as simple as an example of a early employee's salary at a seed-funded startup is helpful. I also think the links I shared are pretty good. I'm shocked that my post got over 150 tweets today -- many of them saying "read this if you're considering joining a startup" or "great read". I thought some people might take interest in the story, but I'm completely surprised by how many did. There have been over 16k unique visitors since I posted it this morning.

[danenania]

I think that regardless of how much influence your friendships and relationship had on the process, your analysis was thorough and very interesting, so I personally got value out of reading it. Thanks!