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Michele Hansen update: Section 174 and bootstrapping with kids
Episode 152
In this podcast episode, Michele Hansen (Geocodio) gives us an update on Section 174 and provides her take on "bootstrapping with kids."
Michele explains you can be a part of the Small Software Busine…
Published on 2 years, 3 months ago
Should a parent with young kids try to bootstrap a new startup?
Episode 151
In this episode, Justin speaks with Aaron Francis about being a new parent and trying to bootstrap a startup. Aaron argued the other side of Justin's tweet thread: "Wait until your kids are older to …
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
Why we hired someone new
Episode 150
Jon and Justin welcome Joshua Anderton to the Transistor team! Josh is an amazingly talented full-stack web developer (Laravel, Rails, Tailwind CSS, Alpine, and more!) He's been helping us as a part-…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
Act now before it's too late: Section 174
Episode 149
Michele Hansen (co-founder of Geocodio) is raising the alarm about Section 174. This legislation could dramatically increase your tax bill this year if you're a small software company in the USA. Mic…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
This would kill our company immediately
Episode 148
Jon's back from his first real vacation in years. In this episode, we discuss how we've been removing inactive accounts on Transistor, SVB, Section 174, Revin is shutting down their Merchant of Recor…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
One pepperoni pizza please
Episode 147
"I don't get it: if that money is for the government, how come the pizza place put it in their cash register?!?"
(Jon is on vacation - our next real episode is coming soon!)
Listen to our past episodes…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
Super Fun SaaS Sales Tax (Part Deux)
Episode 146
Last week's episode hit a nerve! "The idea that every small software company in the world will be able to be in perfect compliance will every foreign federal, provincial, state, and municipal governm…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
Nobody wants to talk about this (SaaS sales tax)
Episode 145
Sales tax compliance: nobody in SaaS wants to talk about it. Jon and Justin tried to do something about it and it turned into a nightmare. According to Stripe Tax, there are about 90 different region…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
The gang goes to Montréal
Episode 144
The whole Transistor team got together for a retreat in Montréal. Jon, Justin, Helen, and Jason chat about the experience.
What should we talk about next?
Twitter: @buildyoursaas, @mijustin, @jonbuda…Published on 2 years, 10 months ago
Jon & Justin reveal everything (part 2)
Episode 143
It's the fourth anniversary of Transistor's public launch! This is part 2 of "Jon and Justin answer your questions."
Published on 3 years ago