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Category Archives: Startup 101

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 [...]

Hankering for Harvest

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 [...]

Legitimacy all around

Yep. CA is legit…and so is Tara…

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 [...]

Business Stuff 101

The radio silence is because we are trying to get all of that business stuff: like incorporating, setting up EIN’s, payroll, etc. etc.
Once we figure it out, we will blog it so that others out there that don’t know where to turn for this stuff (we’re lucky we have super smart fellow entrepreneurs at Teh [...]