ultrasaurus

There are places in the tax code where Single != Married Filing Separately.

One pertinent example is that Washington State's capital gains tax applies after $270k per single person, per married couple filing jointly OR split in half for married filing separately. Which could be a theoretical $18.9k/year difference in taxes.

Or to make it even more obvious: Founder raises $1MM then immediately sells the company for $900k :)

Some terms are going to need to exist to prevent that, so the investor shares will always be preferred. Beyond that there are in fact a lot of other terms that are in some deals but not others (2x preference, pro rata, etc..)

It's probably worth noting that "someone who has litigated Chevron cases" and presumably will litigate again has a real bias to look supportive of the supreme court (or any judge who could decide his cases).

For the rest of us, whether you agree with the outcome of decision or not, it overturns a 40 year old precedent which is:

* old enough that several congresses have had a chance to clarify any older laws and have made new laws with it on the books

* not so old that it's obviously from a different era and doesn't make sense today

* and always icky from a stare decisis perspective

fwiw, from a HN perspective, I'm mostly interested in how the SC works as a process with politics aside.

You need 3 things to make a sale:

1. Why anything? 2. Why this? 3. Why now?

Sure FOMO is one of your tools, but I suspect it's overused. Consider the classic "This price won't be around for long!" move alone.

I sometimes wonder if our definition of failure is flexible and moves so that half-ish of projects are below average thus failures. I once had to do a post-mortem on why a project went 5% over schedule -- that's a pretty soft definition of failure.

Personally I'd start with the phone system guaranteeing that the person calling me owns the number that shows up on the call display. That's how people already assume it works and would cut 90% of the spammiest of spam calls while still letting folks with family in Nigeria choose to answer those calls.

This sounds very much like an "enterprise" sale, with a sales rep who can help with checklists and presumably extend your trial quite a bit.

> So she paid a $7,500 deposit and was all set to join Newchip when a founder friend told her to “never pay for introductions.”

Hopefully everyone knows this here, but if you paid for an introduction it's a negative signal: just cold email.

That being said, I'll make intros for only $6,500 and no warrants.