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3 Ways To Make In-House Filing Less Taxing

YoungUpstarts

For instance, if your startup is in the Bay Area but you hire a New York engineer, that engineer may fall under New York’s filing requirements. If your startup is eyeing international expansion early on, your tax compliance and planning needs, both home and abroad, immediately ratchet up.

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Walker Twitter Highlights: November 9th – 29th

Scott Edward Walker

.” – @jasonlk [link] (at 35:22) Quora: “What methods are employed by VCs to screw founders and engineers?” ” A few solid responses: [link] “The only folks that win on this are the later stage investors who get the benefit of the ratchet…“ – @weschan [link].

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Introducing New Lean Startup Practitioners

Startup Lessons Learned

Each MVP is like a ratchet tooth or belay anchor that keeps the work from going backward, while enabling me to generate greater momentum for the next, more ambitious reach.” MVP is a frequently-used acronym on the product and engineering teams and pervasive around Sharethrough as a whole.

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Three Ways PR and SEO Can Be Best Friends

Duct Tape Marketing

After all, SEO was all about gaming the search engine algorithms to push your websites higher than they deserved to go. Or you used strange language constructs that didn’t flow, but more closely matched what people were likely to type into a search engine. photo credit flickr. You did this by finding loopholes in the system.

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Fear is the mind-killer

Startup Lessons Learned

As the product matured, they were able to ratchet up the quality to prevent regression on features that had been truly embraced by their customers. Starting instead from a position where feedback cycle time is the priority and allowing quality to ratchet up as the product matures provides a more natural lead in to continuous deployment.

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

In a few cases, they are clearly smart people in a bad situation, and Ive written about their pain in The product managers lament and The engineering managers lament. And we cant hire new engineers any faster, because you cant be interviewing and debugging and fixing all at the same time! Hire a CTO or VP Engineering.

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Out of the Crisis #5, ANA Therapeutics: a possible COVID-19 treatment and prophylactic

Startup Lessons Learned

in chemical engineering. And often what we're seeing in these hydroxychloroquine studies is a big ratcheting of a typical dose. You ratchet up a drug that has known side effects. I then switched into studying sperm cell physiology, which led to the formation of YourChoice Therapeutics with Akash. I have a Ph.D