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A startup lawyer's honest take on founder mental health during company distress — with real science and real tools.

Most startups on the venture track aren't profitable or reinvest any profits into growing the business. No profits = no tax. So double taxation usually isn't a problem.

True. But the 5 year holding period doesn't start until conversion to a c-corp. So, plan accordingly.

I love Stripe. And I agree that Atlas makes incorporation process quite easy. But when I hear about a SaaS startup being organized as an LLC, I wonder if the founders considered th…

I know these situations can be painful, (and there may be concerns re: confidentiality), but I really wish more founders would share a bit more detail describing what went wrong. T…

> It seems that Ad business is eating up all the talent over there... Yes, and trying to catch up with Amazon on cloud services.

Yes! We've held off on adopting Slack because Hangouts Chat seemed promising. But here we are almost 3 years since it was introduced and there's still no integration with Gmail. Ar…

Here's a plain English explanation from Joel Spolsky: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2016/12/09/developers-side-pr...

I've used https://simplenote.com/ for ~5 years because it's clean, fast, cross-platform, supports Markdown, has decent search and tagging features, and it's free & open source. Eve…

If you happen to be in California... Section 2872 of the California Labor Code prohibits your employer from taking ownership of anything that you develop entirely on your own time …

The audiobook is excellent as several members of the cast make appearances.

Two  menu bar apps: - Shush : Quickly mute and unmute your microphone using a hotkey (e.g. fn). - Clocker : Easy way to keep track of your friends and colleagues in different time…

We recently went down this rabbit hole. We extensively tested each of the following: - http://notion.so/ - https://slab.com/ - https://getoutline.com/ - https://gitbook.com/ Each h…

This.

See if your employer would be open to using GitHub's open source employee IP agreement: https://github.com/github/balanced-employee-ip-agreement . It's a bit more balanced than the…

Read your company's stock option plan. Most stock option plans have language that auto-adjusts all outstanding option awards in the same proportion as the stock split. For example,…