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by cmer 15y ago
Indeed. I'd love to hear the details on this. I was considering CI Joe for a project.
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by cmer 15y ago
Sad to see that Rails is getting more and more complex.
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by cmer 15y ago
The exemption only applies for Canadian companies, never to American ones. While it is true that you can use your family members' exemption, anybody who just gives away their exemption for free is a fool in my opinion. That is unless they k
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by cmer 15y ago
Also, if your Canadian company is US-controlled, it is not eligible for SR&ED and such credits.
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by cmer 15y ago
My tax accountant never gave me details about it, but I remember him clearly saying that there were serious tax consequences in doing so and that generally, this kind of setup should be avoided. If your structure looks like this: YOU-CA -&#
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by cmer 15y ago
See my response to rreiner.
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by cmer 15y ago
My understanding of it is that as long as jobs are created, the success or failure of the project, and the ownership of IP doesn't matter. If a Canadian company was to contract out their R&D to another Canadian company, only one can cla
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by cmer 15y ago
Yes, but it's minimal if you do things right using the Assumed Par Value method. See http://startuplawyer.com/incorporation/the-delaware-freak-ou...
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by cmer 15y ago
I just published something on my blog about the whole setup and experience. Let me know if it helps! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2935970
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US Incorporation for Canadian Startups(blog.carlmercier.com)
85 points by cmer 15y ago|16 comments
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by cmer 15y ago
If you're about to overlook this because "it's just another damn static site generator", think again. I almost did, but I was very impressed with Statis! It sure is worth a look.
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by cmer 15y ago
I gave a talk a couple of years ago where I discussed what we did. See slide 77+ here: http://www.slideshare.net/cmercier/how-i-founded-bootstrappe... Let me know if you have more questions!
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by cmer 15y ago
Maybe. But maybe not. I started my startup in Canada and still incorporated in Delaware. Very glad I did.
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by cmer 15y ago
I just bought a Synology DS411j yesterday and I intended to run AeroFS on there. Unfortunately, AeroFS requires the JVM which I believe won't run on my NAS. (JamVM might with some hacking). Hopefully there'll be a solution soon because I r
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by cmer 15y ago
Reminds me of TheDraw! :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheDraw
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by cmer 15y ago
If you're looking for a job, you should definitely check them out. I know Lenny and he's an awesome smart and nice guy. I'm sure the other founders are just as nice.
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by cmer 15y ago
Stopped using an RSS reader a long time ago because I just couldn't keep up with all the content. Too many unreads, too much noise, got sick of it and figured I'd get the good stuff through Twitter or HN if it was really important. If you'r
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by cmer 15y ago
I own both an Android (USA) and iPhone (Canada) and I couldn't agree more with this article. It amazes me that Android is so popular despite being significantly inferior to iOS in terms of quality and polish. The iPhone 4 hardware is also s
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by cmer 15y ago
A great book explaining exactly this: The Innovator's Dilemma ( http://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Dilemma-Technologies-Cause-... -- I don't make money from this link) I think every entrepreneur should read and understand the theories illust
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by cmer 15y ago
This is getting old. Why is 37signals so bitter?
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by cmer 15y ago
Betting on such a small and unproven platform doesn't give you very good odds in my opinion. People who've been around the block a few times are usually looking for a bit more certainty than that. Not that anything is certain in the startup
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by cmer 15y ago
Woah! Did you just copy/paste my mind or what? I am exactly in the same situation and feel exactly the same way as you! Every word and sentence you wrote describe me perfectly. I also sold a few startups, I'm both business and technical,
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by cmer 15y ago
1.9 doesn't always result in speed improvements. We benchmarked some of our code against REE and 1.9.2 and the difference was negligible, if at all. I agree with you however. 1.9 is the future and that's where they should be spending their
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by cmer 15y ago
I was looking to buy an Aeron but it wasn't very comfortable for me. The medium one was too small and the large one too big. When I tried the Embody at the store, I fell in love. It's expensive as hell, but I'm glad I bought it. It's an out
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by cmer 16y ago
It seems to me that this is really the beginning of the end for RIM. Based on this review and the video, it is clear that they're so behind with their tablet that they've already pretty much lost the game. The same can be said about Blackbe
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by cmer 16y ago
I started out using OpenVPN as well. However, the speed and latency was always very bad even though my VPS connection is fast. After spending too much time trying to figure it out, I decided to just spend just $55/year and use StrongVPN. Ad
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by cmer 16y ago
I've been using StrongVPN, a similar service, with great success.
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by cmer 16y ago
To be fair, Skype is available in Canada. Only Skype-in numbers aren't.
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by cmer 16y ago
Time savers: Mac (en-US): ftp://mozilla.fastbull.org//mozilla/firefox/releases/4.0/mac/en-US/Firefox%204.0.dmg Win32 (en-US): ftp://mozilla.fastbull.org//mozilla/firefox/releases/4.0/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%204.0.exe Linux x86_64 (en-US
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by cmer 16y ago
Because they need to make money somewhere, I assume. Totally fair.

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