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Last week, my co-founder and I walked away from our revenue-generating startup Jason Cohen's startup viability calculator was the nail in the coffin https://lnkd.in/dYDqk6kP We spoke to many investors about our startup,…

I'm building a tool that predicts the value of a tax strategy, the 83(b) election, and am trying to understand the return distribution for vc-backed startups at various stages so I can ballpark how valuation evolves the…

I'm a tax nerd and software developer. What startup tax questions would you like answered? Example: what the heck is 83(B) and will it save me money?

I'm building a niche payroll service and need to transfer cash from employers to employees. Does any provider handle bank verification (e.g. plaid) and cash movement (dwolla) together?

- 2 technical founders - Marketing front-end: Squarespace - Backend: Deno+Typescript Feedback?

My (brand new) product solves a regulatory compliance problem using GPT. How would you defend it against competition? * Competition includes customers building the thing themselves and third party competitors. * Don't…

Giving and receiving Christmas presents is a privilege, but it's also a tremendous waste of time, money and planet. Can we just stop? Why? - My kids expect presents - Useless tchotchkes end up in the ocean or landfill…

The SEO tool (https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/) not the amphibian.

By "technical SEO" I mean SEO problems that require software development. What's special about domains with 100,000+ pages (e.g. niche search engines and large e-commerce sites) is that most basic SEO advice is…

Official blog updated infrequently. GitHub doesn't show much activity. Changelog mentions some recent stuff but hard to tell if it's more than just one person. Official domain has many broken examples and demos.

Many corporate insider trading policies at non-finance companies have severe penalties, including fines or termination, but I can't think of an instance of a corporation investigating and enforcing a violation of, for…

Digital or IRL. Whatever comes to mind first.

I hate messing around with css and design is a real skill I haven't taken the time to develop yet. I'm wondering if a tool exists that takes inputs: 1) raw HTML, 2) some webpage whose style I like (but don't want to…

Datadog browser synthetics: $12/1,000 runs. AWS synthetics is the cost of running a lambda plus whatever logs/metrics you want to retrieve/persist. Worth it? Why? Main goals are cross-browser latency/Lighthouse and…

"To the moon" might be apt. In 1969 the U.S. sent humans to the moon for bragging rights. We ended up learning a lot. Setting aside the value of the blockchain database and the utility or speculative potential of…

The price of lithium carbonate is skyrocketing in response to demand for EVs (especially following the Inflation Reduction Act's EV tax incentives): https://www.axios.com/2022/09/21/lithium-prices-electric-vehicles-evs.…

I'm a contractor, startup founder, and investor. I spend tons of time aggregating data to determine what tax I owe at the household level (I'm married and my wife works) so I can 1) make quarterly estimated payments,…

Software engineers (as a case study) meet the definition of a contractor: They choose their own hours, how they'll accomplish a task, and nowadays work wherever they want.* Contracting seems like a win-win: 1)…

The U.S. Treasury sells I bonds (inflation-linked bonds different from TIPS) which currently yield 9.62% and reset semi-annually with little (but not zero) cost of early sale. You can learn more about them here:…

Mint.com and analogous products aggregate investment data (poorly...) by scraping or via OFX. Assuming those solutions are completely off the table because we don't want to share credentials, have PII stored in multiple…