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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 spo…

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…

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> I wish I had spent a little bit more time with the person I was gonna work and the team I was gonna work with, before I accepted the offer Some wisdom here. Thanks.

Interesting. What happened in the first handful of weeks that made you realize joining was a mistake?

Sometimes companies allow people to try a role/team for a handful of weeks before committing. Would that have helped?

> In that interim time, they cancelled the project they hired me to work on. That's a very quick re-prioritization! How'd that make you feel?

That's crazy. Tell me more about this. What happened What do you wish you'd known ahead of time? How would you solve this?

Do you think this is a problem with the hiring process or impossible to avoid things like this?

Makes sense. Tell me about some of the short ones. What do wish you'd known before accepting? What was different about the 5+ yr gigs?

Tell me more. What do you wish was different during the interview? What made you accept? What changed?

> Is there any way a pre-IPO startup can give equity without imposing a tax burden on employees? Answer: ISOs are one way. Although I'd clarify that employees will pay tax, it's ju…

S Corp is just a tax filing status. Your legal entity remains an LLC. The benefit of S Corp tax status is that you pay yourself a dividend in addition to your income. They are taxe…

Great resource: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markjkohler/ follow him and learn Biz tax is a deep topic. Short answer is the LLCs are passthrough, which means you'll receive a k-1 fr…

When you're compensated in private shares, you still owe tax on them. With public companies you typically "sell to cover" when you vest, but this isn't possible with private shares…

I'm assuming you are US-based. If you receive compensation in stock, no matter the currency denominator, it is income and is therefore subject to income tax. Your employer should p…

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) toget…

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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…