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by patio11 10y ago
The only thing you need to get paid (picking a number) $40,000 for solving a business problem is to be able to sell a client you have identified on the desirability of paying you $40,000 to solve a business problem. This is the hardest thi
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by patio11 10y ago
Two memos from the archives: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8706043 (see in particular the linked comment) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7155387 (why a consultancy charges an $8k per month prog
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by patio11 10y ago
I feel like I've matured on this question over the years, so to caveat #1: 90% of options are worth nothing if you count by companies granting , but probably 90% of options are worth something if you count by people receiving grants
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by patio11 10y ago
I think Atlas' answer is "Use Atlas." One reason the product exists is to solve this problem in a fairly predictable fashion. We hope to write more about banking specifically at some point, including (if I have my druthers)
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by patio11 10y ago
If you haven't received an invitation yet, send me an email, I will fix that. (Offer available to HNers generally -- you can never waste my time emailing me.) If one had hypothetically used the invitation to apply for Atlas, you get a
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by patio11 10y ago
Acknowledged on the topic; this is something that I hope we can cover in more detail in the future, but not something that I can opine about semi-officially without it getting vetted by lawyers first.
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by patio11 10y ago
I wrote this (and the linked guide). Feel free to ask me if you have any questions or comments, in particular about things you'd like to see us cover in the future. If you'd rather do it over email, my address is my HN username @s
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by patio11 10y ago
Uptime isn't the hardest part about running a solo SaaS shop -- you can solve it by a) bringing an appropriate amount of professionalism to engineering choices and b) choosing to found a business which has appropriate uptime constraint
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by patio11 10y ago
SVB and Stripe are complying with all of our legal obligations. You'll forgive me if I generally abstain from more detailed commentary on internal operations of my employer. I do not believe your understanding of the regulations to be
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by patio11 10y ago
Would you mind sending me an email (my HN username @stripe.com)? I work on Atlas and I'd be happy to look into what went wrong and what we can do to fix things.
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by patio11 10y ago
I wonder whether this is not an example of a UI interaction which is slow on purpose, to emphasize how much work the OS is doing for you. TaxAct and TurboTax, for example, both operate on (in the typical case) kilobyte scale data requiring
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by patio11 10y ago
Wouldn't feeding an employee every day qualify? Meals on the business' premises for the benefit of the business are not taxable income for employees (but are a deductible expense of the business). This is a black-letter IRS reg
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by patio11 10y ago
I really like Close.io; everything less-technical sales reps/etc need from a CRM (principally it plays really well with Gmail so even if they don't live in the app your business can pretend that they do) plus a really powerful A
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by patio11 10y ago
People in the Bitcoin community have a number of weird beliefs with regards to how taxation works generally, then apply these beliefs to Bitcoin, and arrive at results which are internally consistent but not indicative of the world we live
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by patio11 10y ago
I get where this comes from with regards to Amway, but I'm really puzzled as to why geeks pattern match all teaching to scummy "make money online" infomarketing. Nobody ever says "I kinda get the vibe that, in addition t
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by patio11 10y ago
The short and useful answer is talk to an accountant. The longer and less useful answer is that it depends heavily on circumstances. Two relevant ones are "What sort of income do you have here?" and "How much are we talking
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by patio11 10y ago
In a case of "Be careful what you wish for", this would likely result in colleges abandoning the pretense that all their majors are equally valuable and charging engineers more . They already act to capture any increase in publi
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by patio11 10y ago
Essentially, you could run your own API that would wrap Stripe/Braintree's API and kickstart your business that way. This would require a US entity, but with Stripe's Atlas this is a non-issue. Disclaimer: I work at Stripe,
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by patio11 10y ago
That's not an example of the conjunction fallacy, as far as I can tell. You've got a cat in a box. It was killed or not based on the outcome of a fair coin flip. Your prior for the cat being alive should be 50%. If you hear meo
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by patio11 10y ago
The information about a PDVSA default spread by the enemies of the fatherland is totally false <-- there should be a word for "A denial which is phrased in such a fashion as to make listening observers think it is more likely, not
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by patio11 10y ago
I think this is part of my pathological customers thesis: you won't simply have more headaches at $500 than $5k because the customers are more evil about $500 invoices. You'll have more problems because _people who get into $500
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by patio11 10y ago
It's where the tort giving rise to the suit happened, a question which is complicated and lawyer-worthy if this ever comes up. Most MSAs will have both parties stipulate to the jurisdiction of a particular county's courts; genera
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by patio11 10y ago
I forget how much it costs to ship a container Order of magnitude: thing "new iPhone" not "new MacBook." If that leaves anyone flabbergasted, yep, that is why containerization is one of the most important technologies
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by patio11 10y ago
A/Bingo, a Rails A/B testing plugin that I wrote in a part-time week and used for a few years. The main reason I'm proud of it is Ben Kamens and company ported it to run on Google App Engine for Khan Academy, where it formed
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by patio11 10y ago
There is a term of art in Silicon Valley called "market terms", which are things which are sufficiently well-understood, precedented, and facially not-screamingly-unfair that 2+ sophisticated adults could reasonably agree to them
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by patio11 10y ago
If you want to speak to an accountant to sanity check your plans, literally any CPA should be able to help you do it, particularly those advertising a specialty in small businesses. I would caution you that this is far from the hardest que
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by patio11 10y ago
Obligatory disclaimers: not a lawyer, not an accountant, am employed by Stripe to write about these sorts of topics, writing here only in my personal capacity, none of the following is advice but rather just a pointer for your future Google
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by patio11 10y ago
Atlas works for folks in the US as well, but we don't support LLCs yet. You can register an LLC by yourself with the state of Nevada or Wyoming for a trivial amount of money. There exist hundreds of companies which will assist with f
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by patio11 10y ago
I apologize and retract any comments made on Wells Street or elsewhere that were carelessly drafted. I know you're not trying to lock in the status quo. If I had a guess, you're trying to win a message board debate? Which is som
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by patio11 10y ago
I'm splitting hairs, perhaps unnecessarily so, about exact word choice used to communicate the ground facts. We agree about the ground facts. >> Would the sentence "Japan is way way more racist than America" work? If n

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