toni_erika

We have great traction in the U.K and have been experimenting with U.S markets for the last few months. The feedback has been great and we're seeing early signs that it will be a great market to pursue.

However, I am conscious of what tax we will be responsible for.

From doing initial research, it seems I won't have to register as a U.S business and pay any federal tax as we don't have a 'nexus' within the U.S. We won't have an office or employees, everything will be operated from the U.K as it currently is.

It seems like the only tax we have to worry about is sales tax, however, quite a few states do not have sales tax on SaaS products.

If we are only focusing on these states that don't have sales tax on SaaS and we don't have a U.S nexus, are we good to go without worrying about tax?

Basically, we're at a stage whereby we need to have a look at the technology we're using i.e. we're not just using random tools because there's two of us - we need to be using a stack that works well together.

At the heart of that seems to be the G Suite/Office365 debate.

My initial thoughts are that Office365 is still the standard and what employees are expecting but that Google offers a more competitive price point and is more flexible in terms of integrations with other solutions.

Would love to hear other peoples thoughts/experiences though!

I joined a startup (11 people) not too long ago after working for a company that was around 500 people big.

What I noticed is that the company I'm currently working for is that there's no real structure in place to enable sharing knowledge within the teams. I'm seeing that most of the knowledge is in the heads of the founders. I'd like to see this change gradually so that everyone in the team understands more (and, in turn, democratize decision making).

How have you enabled your team to share knowledge? Where I used to work we used Confluence, but I feel like that's overkill for a startup and I'm not a huge fan of document-based knowledge base / internal wikis.

Any thoughts on this? Also founders: do you worry about this at all?

Hey everyone, Me and two other friends have started working on a startup and we are now looking into funding and accelerators. One thing we will have to do is give away equity and being first-timers, we would like to get as much help and information as possible about how to approach this correctly.

Although new, we are not unprepared and have documented ourselves extensively via both reading up practically every famous startup book, Y Combinator posts and we attend local entrepreneurs meetups. However, we feel like we still need some more advice and other entrepreneurs' stories to weigh how to approach this.

Hence we would really like to hear your stories, opinions, and advice on how first-time entrepreneurs should approach investors and how much equity to give them. Thanks in advance.

Let's just say that I sleep well at night knowing that my fellow physicists are busy slamming atomic nuclei together at near the speed of light. There are plenty of subatomic fireworks in those big accelerators, but probably not any black holes. We're not even sure we'll rip open such a hole in space-time — that prediction is based on a narrow class of speculative theories, which may or may not (let's just go with "not" for the time being) be true. So should we be worried about creating a black hole?

You have 4 strings. You can permute each string in anyway you want and then you are going to construct a trie from these 4 strings. What is the minimum possible number of nodes in this trie?