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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 p…

It's so depressing to think that might be the answer here!

We're dealing with a growing impersonation problem and could use advice from people who have navigated anything similar. Scammers are creating Facebook and Instagram pages pretendi…

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 per…

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…

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 …

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 i…

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 inte…

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 — easi…

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 priorit…

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…

Gotcha, so the lower pricing applies to the incremental users. I didn't get that from reviewing the pricing page.

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…

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. Tha…

That would be markup, margin can't be over 100%.

Smash Notes has the summary and transcript: https://smashnotes.com/p/the-failory-podcast/e/how-3-failure...

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 ag…

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 …

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 …

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 t…

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 b…

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 fund…

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…

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. Y…

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 or…