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Author Archives: Chris Messina


Going for broke

Well, I guess it’s one of those rites of passage that all startups go through, so we’re just hitting this point early (so that means it’s only up from here, right?).
Yep, today my checking account was overdrawn $47.99. And I’ve got about $500 left to my name. And sure, there’s credit, but that’s not really [...]

Annnnd…. then we were legit

So we’re already showing up in California’s Business Listings and just now, after an excruciatingly annoying series of false-starts over on the IRS’ site, Citizen Agency now has an official Employer Identification Number (aka EIN) — which apparently is like a Social Security Number for corporations — since, as we’ve now achieved Corporate Personhood, the [...]

$8 billion later, and the IRS still sucks

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Ok, so I made up that number. But it seems like a reasonable figure given that it’s the IRS. And that they handle all the tax money that comes in at tax time. I mean, it’s not like it’s a small chunk of change or anything.
But listen, here I am, struggling to wade through [...]