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by patio11 9y ago
They're really nice spaces qua spaces: well lit, clearly designed by someone who is copying a better designer but executing very well at it, and they have everything you need to be a productive Internet person (power, fast wifi, somewh
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by patio11 9y ago
Cold outreach is a lot like caching: the millions of people who have successfully implemented it, written down their process, and documented their results are not all lying. This doesn't necessarily imply that "put a cache in fron
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by patio11 9y ago
Yes, AppAmaGooBookSoft are hiring for software engineering and SREs in Tokyo. No, your perception that they do not have much engineering effort is not materially reflective of reality. Google's open job reqs: https://careers
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by patio11 9y ago
I'm satisfied with the agreement, which was the result of two relatively sophisticated parties negotiating spiritedly towards a mutually acceptable outcome. Without talking about that negotiation, note generally that if a prospective
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by patio11 9y ago
Same as all VAT taxes, right. My business buys a mouse; I pay 8% to the store selling the mouse. My business sells a $FOO; my customer pays 8% to me. I file a tax return, remitting the government 8% of a $FOO less 8% of the mouse.
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by patio11 9y ago
Japan has AML laws but, broadly, has a much higher tolerance for high-value cash transactions than e.g. the US does, particularly if you read as obviously socially established. If you're in possession of $50k cash in the US, presumptio
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by patio11 9y ago
I deal with this objection a lot. 60% of this market is in the US; 40% or so is elsewhere. (That is not true of the prospective users of this, but it will be broadly true of the payers.) Half of "elsewhere" is in an elsewhere with
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by patio11 9y ago
You might also be interested in: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/14/business/japan-gold-smugg... Gold smuggling, which Japan is getting mildly more serious about combatting, is largely just about tax f
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by patio11 9y ago
Predictably, $3 billion is simply a negotiated discount on fees in return for Foxconn choosing Wisconsin over a state not willing to discount fees.
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by patio11 9y ago
Comments are copyright of the author (by law, not by any policy on HN). HN has an implicit license to display them. c.f. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3641312 (by George Grellas, who is actually a lawyer)
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by patio11 9y ago
In Japanese companies that I've worked at, the convention is using English words for programming concepts, using Japanese words transliterated into English for business concepts except where the English word is easy and obvious, and us
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by patio11 9y ago
S corps aren't a company type, they're a status you can elect for tax purposes. We didn't automate the process of making that election because we felt it was not a fit for most Atlas users. A Delaware C corporation can still
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by patio11 9y ago
Companies which incorporated in calendar year 2017 will owe their first franchise tax in March 2018.
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by patio11 9y ago
I can give you reasonably firm quotes for tax preparation but I cannot give you quotes inclusive of taxes, because there is wide variance in situations and because "Estimate my taxes for me" is very firmly in the practice of a
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by patio11 9y ago
We have a rule that we never announce anything before we're ready to ship it. That said: the general scale of our ambitions is "incorporate a majority of all Internet companies, worldwide" and "materially impact global m
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by patio11 9y ago
It depends. If the company hasn't generated revenue yet, then the process is relatively straightforward, and we have an option to work with an attorney to get it done for a fixed $500. https://stripe.com/docs/atlas
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by patio11 9y ago
We have a variety of companies opened by folks operating in Sweden (and another 100+ countries besides). I would love to give you an answer regarding the Swedish tax system, but it is not one of the two tax systems that I know enough about
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by patio11 9y ago
I'd be happy to give one to anyone from HN who wants one. Just email me; I'm (unsurprisingly) my usual handle @stripe.com (If you want it immediately, I'm up for next ~30 minutes or so.)
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by patio11 9y ago
Atlas incorporates companies in the U.S., and US companies will have a filing obligation for federal taxes and an obligation to pay Delaware franchise tax (which is basically a renewal fee for the company every year). Whether it is "ad
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by patio11 9y ago
Howdy folks. I worked a wee bit on this and am happy to answer questions if you have them.
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by patio11 9y ago
We’ve averaged 2 banking charters a year issued nationwide for the last five years, and none of them were to 420 Money Laundering Services, LLC.
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by patio11 9y ago
I would recommend Naval Ravikant (@naval) and Nick Svabo (@NickSvabo4) as the smartest people I know who are heavily engaged in cryptocurrency professionally.
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by patio11 9y ago
If I taped a dollar bill to every can of Coke and sold them for 50 cents and the sales of Coke exploded, would you say I put a marketing coup on Pepsi? This depends on whether you sell cans of Coke (boring) or convert people into Coke dri
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by patio11 9y ago
Anecdote: she designed a program which went from 0 to "in the pockets of literally over 90% of SFBA professionals who've eaten with me in the last 12 months", in under a year, and when I ask about it every last one of them sa
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by patio11 9y ago
If they thought they could take a proposal and productionize it with someone available for hire at a total cost of $140k in their first year and that they’re capable of finding, closing, and managing that person then a) my blog is free and
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by patio11 9y ago
It is weird how I get persistently drummed out of engineering because when I write cron jobs, SQL queries, and React dashboards I make special effort to connect them to business outcomes. Businesses, to a first approximation, don’t care abo
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by patio11 9y ago
My modal engagement was with a SaaS company with $20 million a year sales, a few dozen employees, and 1~3 very strapped people wearing the marketing hat. “How much email do you send?” “We have a newsletter.” “What else?” “Welcome to free tr
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by patio11 9y ago
There are plenty of reasons to take a steady job over running a business, even a very lucrative business. I’ve done both; no stressing over Christmas on whether a check will arrive soon enough in January or February to pay for my tax asses
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by patio11 9y ago
Since this is something of a hobbyhorse of mine: You know all my invoices had “Ogaki, Gifu, Japan” on them, right? The only thing you have to do to charge $100 an hour is successfully pitch any firm in the world on paying you that. They exi
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by patio11 9y ago
I think this is likely not “small companies chasing a fad” but rather “penny stock promoters doing their usual thing: grab a listed entity for five figures then run a boiler room, citing the most recent successful boiler room.”

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