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Not sure of UK laws, but if they help administrate pension funds and take 0.25% (similar to Wealthfront and Betterment in the US), you won't have much to worry about. Zenefits (fre…

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I'm a former CPA and founder of Zen99, which built tax tools for independent contractors like Uber drivers. So this is my forte :) You're right that it's not cut and dry, and can't…

This ultimately comes down to the debate between capitalism vs socialism - if people are still driving at lower rates, then we weren't at a market equilibrium. But should they have…

You're correct - taxi drivers have been suing for decades to get employee status. You don't hear about it because Uber is the first major national player that everyone recognizes.

If their costs had been 20% higher, they still would have priced others out of the market by using VC money to subsidize (as they still do now). Technically their prices were highe…

Portion of payroll taxes is ~7.5%, plus an extra 2.5-10% for workers comp/etc depending on your rates. If they had to reclass as employees, they would just raise prices to end cons…

> One thing I'd like to know is whether people doing lyft or über full time do on average better or worse than their yellowcab counterpart. A good indicator is that most cab driver…

Former CPA and Zen99 founder here. Home care givers are a special case under US tax code that requires them to be employees [1]. As honorable (yuk yuk) as it is that Honor is makin…

Same Day ACH has been in the works for a while; however, a payments expert I spoke with said all the big banks are opposing it since (a) they make more on wires, as mentioned, and …

1099 classification is not very defensible - see FedEx $228M settlement in just CA. Obama said that he thinks a third class of workers is just a watered down version of W-2 protect…

Founder had previous exit, could be why they didn't capitalize as much (though that's pure speculation). They're probably just restructuring and using existing technology for anoth…

HIPAA basically requires a bunch of safeguards to be in place if you fall under its regulations. So if a prescription delivery company (like ScriptDash, NimbleRX, etc) want to send…

Not handicap accessible - Uber/Lyft are legally required to have those options so will have them as an option. Wouldn't be a big enough market for that otherwise, and would probabl…

Sidecar doesn't get enough credit for starting the rideshare movement. (Uber started the mobile-calling movement, but were black cars and TNC compliant until they started UberX.) S…

This article is from October 19th, so 2 months old. They also announced their funding back in July. Have there been any updates since then? What is fill rate? What is feedback from…

I doubt this is a response to ADP; ADP is a horrible product, and Zenefits knew they could make a better solution (like ZenPayroll/Gusto). They've probably been working on this for…

Interesting to watch tech innovation be stifled by telecom inefficiencies. Great move by Google to adapt to that reality.

Reminiscent of taxi companies vs ridesharing companies. Trying to fight/shut down these services vs working with them (or even developing your own competing solutions) didn't end w…

It's refreshing to see employees who are this dedicated to the product. Kudos, Gumroad team.