akcreek

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by akcreek 9mo ago
As a follow-up, in case anyone else finds themselves in this position. I was never able to create a FB account for myself, but a member of our team was able to use their existing personal FB account to create a company page. From there, the
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by akcreek 10mo ago
It's so depressing to think that might be the answer here!
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Ask HN: Meta blocks our legit business while scammers use our name freely
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by akcreek 4y ago
This is a solid take on task management. We've got some similar features in https://hourstack.com with dragging and dropping tasks from other platforms into a calendar (team or personal). However, our focus is on tracking t
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by akcreek 4y ago
We have one (or more) people posting ads impersonating us hiring translators on Upwork and in Facebook groups. The scam seems to be they "hire" the person, give them work, and then never pay them. Having zero cost of goods sold ma
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by akcreek 5y ago
It definitely confuses our customers. We fairly regularly receive unpleasant tickets asking where their order is. Once we dig in we often find they did not order with us, but with a competitor who they thought was us.
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by akcreek 5y ago
So still an LLC, but it is taxed like an S-Corp when this election is made. This allows an owner working in the business to be an employee and take a reasonable salary. W2 income is subject to FICA taxes, but all the other profits in the bu
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by akcreek 5y ago
The team and I are building HourStack - https://hourstack.com . We are focused on scheduling and tracking time at the task level, which works well with billable hours. We also integrate with task, event, and issue platforms so yo
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by akcreek 5y ago
HourStack | Remote | USA | Full-time | Fullstack Engineer | $85-125k HourStack helps teams of all sizes with a holistic, visual approach to both time tracking and scheduling — easily connect favorite applications with zero disruption to wor
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by akcreek 5y ago
In case it is helpful to anyone, we've recently started a post series in the HourStack blog about this topic. A lot of focus goes into time management strategies, but often prioritization is ignored. It's quite powerful if you can
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by akcreek 5y ago
It's definitely tough to articulate. It's basically the same concept as progressive taxation in the US as your rate increases on a per dollar basis when moving through the brackets. Though you are going the other direction and dis
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by akcreek 5y ago
Gotcha, so the lower pricing applies to the incremental users. I didn't get that from reviewing the pricing page.
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by akcreek 5y ago
Curious what the thinking is with the steep volume discounts? It is cheaper to have 251 users than it is to have any number between 41 and 250. You run into some weird pricing this way. For example, 250 users on the pro plan is $1,000/
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by akcreek 5y ago
I use email validation via MailGun for exactly this purpose with a productized service business. If we don't have a good email, then we can't deliver the service once complete. That leads to angry customers, even if the issue was
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by akcreek 5y ago
That would be markup, margin can't be over 100%.
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by akcreek 6y ago
Smash Notes has the summary and transcript: https://smashnotes.com/p/the-failory-podcast/e/how-3-failure...
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by akcreek 6y ago
This looks really interesting. I've found the best way for me to stay focused is to just block sites via my /etc/hosts file. I'll unblock it when I'm done working and then block again at the end of the day so I&#x27
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by akcreek 7y ago
I did not expect the response I received to this post. I received 100+ emails in a few hours and had to remove my contact info as I was only expecting a few people to reach out. I wasn't intending to create a major distraction from my
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by akcreek 7y ago
Raising money from friends and family is certainly a common path to entrepreneurship, but it is far from the only. My original point was that acquisition entrepreneurship could be an option for someone with a broad skillset like the OP. How
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by akcreek 7y ago
Thus far my acquisitions have all been asset sales where I've started a new LLC, which has purchased the assets we define in the purchase agreement. I've not done any deals where the original owner keeps a stake, but I would consi
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by akcreek 7y ago
Buying online businesses wasn't even on my radar at the start, but I stumbled onto the first one via a blog that I followed. They posted that they were going to sell their online business and to drop them an email if interested. I read
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by akcreek 7y ago
I was in college at the time, so student loans kept me afloat. I was definitely not using that money correctly, but I believed I was using it wisely. The first acquisition was funded by a loan from my parents for $44K. That was a large sum
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by akcreek 7y ago
I have a wide-ranging self-taught skill set as well that I've developed over the last 14 years of running my own businesses. I'll share what I'm doing from a high level as it might not be the most common path. I've been
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by akcreek 7y ago
HourStack ( https://hourstack.com ) | Full Stack Developer | Seattle, WA | Full-time | REMOTE (in US) We're hiring an experienced full stack developer to help us build HourStack. You'll be working on the next version of
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by akcreek 7y ago
I can't speak for the OP, but in our situation, the customer doesn't realize they are buying from a competitor. We regularly get support requests from customers we can't find an order history for. It's almost always the
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by akcreek 7y ago
>On the flip side though, after my 15 year mortgage is up I'm not going to pay another dime outside of maintenance on this thing. You'll have property taxes as well, which could be meaningful depending where you live. I was tal
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by akcreek 7y ago
Offering without an agent doesn't necessarily save money. It depends on the details of the seller's listing agreement. It could require dual agency or even without dual agency the listing agent could retain the full commission if
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by akcreek 7y ago
Last I read the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) systems will have fiber-like latency and gigabit speeds as they are ~200 mi away from Earth where Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) systems are 20K+ mi away.
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by akcreek 7y ago
I suppose it depends on the setup of the business so I shouldn't make a blanket statement that S-Corps are more work for everyone. For me specifically, after 13 years with standard LLCs, it's definitely more work. The bulk of it b
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by akcreek 7y ago
LLCs that elect S-Corp tax status (in the US) issue distributions and it can be at any interval you like. We do it monthly. The distributions are not subject to FICA(Social Security or Medicare) taxes, which is where the savings exists over

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