March 2011
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Paying US State Taxes, Living Abroad
Maybe it’s just me. Maybe it’s not. But I currently reside in Japan but earn the majority of my income from consulting projects in the States. I’ve been filing taxes with the state I previously lived in ever since I started consulting, including the time I’ve lived abroad.
Up to now, all I had to do was report my income… no payment necessary at the state level. As of...
November 2010
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October 2010
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Completely New Language Discovered →
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Bizarre new sea slug is 50% plant, 50% animal →
Just found this article about a newly discovered sea slug which can swipe genes from the algae it eats to carry-out photosynthesis. Wow!
September 2010
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New Fun Way to Destroy Websites →
Feel like destroying some HTML? Now you can! It’s like asteroids for any web page. After spending all day coding websites sometimes it’s nice to blow-off a little steam :)
July 2010
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“Most of the things that make us money as entrepreneurs are the things that we...”
– RE/MAX hall of famer Todd Smith on overcoming his biggest challenge, laziness. Via Mixergy.
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Did the first Americans have British accents? →
I’d always assumed that Americans used to have British accents, and that American accents diverged after the Revolutionary War, while British accents remained more or less the same.
Americans in 1776 did have British accents in that American accents and British accents hadn’t yet diverged. That’s not too surprising.
What is surprising, though, is that those accents were much closer to ...
March 2010
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“All people want is simple things done well… People’s problems are...”
– Jason Fried in his Mixergy interview
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Freemium or Trial? On Free vs. Free.
Ahh, the great debate rages on! Here’s the essence of the question:
Should I offer a limited version of my website/saas product for free and try to get upgrades later into a “premium” version (freemium) or should I give some sort of a limited free trial and then lock the user out when the trial ends if they don’t upgrade (free trial)?
And I would also add this to the...
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“Start small, do it right, and see where it goes.”
– Noah Alper, founder of Noah’s Bagels on starting businesses via Mixergy
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Why your website is like Wall Street.
I just read a great post over at the Scout blog about what website operators can learn from Wall Street. I have had this thought before, that web analytics and stock trading have a lot in common.
By looking at our websites like their own micro-economies (especially web apps, subscription, and saas sites), we actually have a lot more control over our financial outcomes than Wall Street investors....