Depending on one's financial situation, it's pretty reasonable to do consulting or something in between, especially if the founders are older or otherwise have higher income potential. (Going from $250/hr or $250k+/yr consulting to $0-3k/mo startup wages kind of sucks if you don't get an exit...)
Outpost.travel is a P2P travel aggregator helping travellers to commute with unique and affordable experiences. We're 4 months in, a team of 3, and just secured 125k yesterday. If you are interrested in having sleepless nights and eating tuna everyday, check out our job page http://outpost.travel/#!/help/jobs
We are looking language agnostic in the backend, anything goes: node.js, parse, Python, PHP, Ruby, etc.