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by ecolner 12y ago
Barring a fair market salary I would argue an even split is appropriate. If this is a tech company, the other party doesn't need you for a series A, they need you to run the company... which at this inflection point is fundraising. Jus
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by ecolner 12y ago
Is there a salary attached to this deal?
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by ecolner 12y ago
Dunno Linode, but Digital Ocean makes sense for these requirements.
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by ecolner 12y ago
Great write up on the psychology of starting. I think this feeling is easy to conceptualize, but hard to truly understand unless you're an actual founder. Most people want you to be successful even if they don't show it though.
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by ecolner 12y ago
Free for filers that make $58,000 or less.
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by ecolner 12y ago
nice
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by ecolner 12y ago
I would say that most of the "loopholes" that you're referring to aren't really accessible to the average Joe because most of us make what's considered "Earned Income". That's what your salary is cons
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by ecolner 12y ago
I've done this when I was working on the Playstation Network so business users could define storefront categories that contain products based on their own custom logic. We didn't get a lot of requests to change the feature and it
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by ecolner 12y ago
Tax pros care about speed even more than consumers, but I'm not sure there's a problem with that. It's just a different mindset.
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by ecolner 12y ago
Sorry to be vague, but honestly it's not a riddle. It's just not something we want to announce yet.
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by ecolner 12y ago
It isn't a concern.
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by ecolner 12y ago
We'll announce that in the future.
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by ecolner 12y ago
Cool! I'm forwarding it to the team.
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by ecolner 12y ago
Your odds of being audited are based on the information that you provide, and that alone. Your return will be rejected if the government tests it and it fails to have the correct calculations. This happens. The government gives companies 48
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by ecolner 12y ago
Nice! We totally agree with you. We'll be in touch.
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by ecolner 12y ago
At the moment it's a Java stack, but we're intentionally not limiting our search to Java developers because we don't mind learning new ways of doing things - we love that part of software development. That said, web is pretty
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by ecolner 12y ago
Tax pros are like developers, most comfortable closer to the bare metal if you will. They use a separate product line that mimics the actual forms closely. They don't like the interview style because it just slows them down when they&#
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by ecolner 12y ago
Will add. Revisit the page tomorrow.
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by ecolner 12y ago
We would never steal from our customers. That's not what this is about.
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by ecolner 12y ago
Thanks dang.
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by ecolner 12y ago
The scroll kind of stinks. Honestly I didn't spend much time putting it up and that's one thing that's annoyed me as well. It'll get better over time. The real focus is on the application that makes filing free right now
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by ecolner 12y ago
It's hidden in plain sight... but that's all I'll say.
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by ecolner 12y ago
Fixed
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by ecolner 12y ago
I'm not familiar with Euro tax codes. But I don't think it would be hard to adapt using the proper rules engine. We'll take a look but too soon to promise anything.
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by ecolner 12y ago
The IRS is easier to deal with. They're more efficient but all require an acceptance process to transmit. The states are in priority order starting with CA just purely based on # of returns and then NY, Illinois, Penn, etc. Trying to d
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by ecolner 12y ago
LOL I'm not even in the same league as a designer... Template fail :)
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by ecolner 12y ago
Yes. That's why I retained an IP lawyer to review the agreements that I signed and to write an opinion about my plans. Every sw company will require you to sign these documents NDA and Non-compete. The key is don't steal their tra
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Ask HN: Ex-Intuit Engineer Building Free Income Tax Software. Join as cofounder?
78 points by ecolner 12y ago|61 comments
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by ecolner 12y ago
* Not trying to piss off PG. I honestly don't know the rules about gathering supporters on HN, but this is in the spirit of the community I hope * If anybody would like to use their skills to fix this issue with me (ex Intuit Turbo
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by ecolner 12y ago
Of course. My IP attorney (Tennille Christensen) reviewed the whole situation and signed off on it. I have her written opinion in my inbox. There were particular IP issues around the name and the domain, but I avoided those by changing the

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