Seth Godin makes some pretty good observations, including:
…the more I think about it, the more it seems that pioneers are almost never in it for the money. The smart ones figure out how to take a remarkable innovation and turn it into a living (or a bigger than big payout) but not the other way [...]
The reason I dislike the term ‘users’ or ‘consumers’ is that both terms denote an adversarial relationship with one’s community. As in, “I produce and you consume” or as in “I give and you use”. I much prefer the use of the term community member or even a customer. Neither feel adversarial. Instead, it feels [...]
Chris and I both have an issue: We are nice.
We don’t want to disappoint anyone.
My biggest issue: I can’t say no. I mentioned before that we are all filled up client-wise. We are, at this time, working flat-out for the clients we have. Anything else could compromise that or our own sanity. However, I’m having [...]
So…here we are at the end of, what? Like just over a month in bidness and we’ve maxxed out on clients. We’ve signed all of our ‘willing to do client work time’ (as opposed to volunteer, community, development and business stuff work) and signed all of the contracts related to that.
We have deposits in the [...]
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 [...]
So, we’ve entered the Harvest New Founders Program to win one free year of Harvest. We’re pretty excited, because Harvest is a nice looking business tool (we’ve already subscribed based on our testing out of it)…and it isn’t like we are so broke that we can’t afford to pay the monthly fee…we just love the [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
No really.
It’s not a matter of just getting a piece of paper and calling yourself a business. There is work involved in this stuff (beyond the work you have to do to get clients and then make them happy by delivering).
But then, again, we never do it the easy way. Add Canadian immigrant to new [...]