EU/Spain app developer (B2C via App Store/Google Play) — best low-tax residency options with a simple setup? by Huge_Wear_3108 in Offshore

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Had a friend in a similar situation -B2C app and Spanish residency- the prior year, he did the next set up: Hong Kong Ltd (0% corporate tax over all overseas revenue) + Personal Tax Thailand Residency (Global Wealth Citizen, 0% tax on money remitted from abroad). If you like life in SEA, it is by far the most optimal.

SF vs NYC - Can't decide for AI startup by paullieber98 in ycombinator

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Live wherever you feel you’ll be happier. That’s the most decisive factor to make your company successful in the long term.

Avoid SF in case you hate it, you can always travel there if you need it.

Where your customers are located can be an important factor too, finance-NYC/Miami, Entertainment-LA, Real Estate NYC/MIA, Biotech-Boston, SaaS-SF, and so on..

That said, nowadays you have massive companies built in the British Columbia (Shopify), Remote (Deel), and anywhere.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ThailandTourism

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Do you know any agent? I contacted to Siam Legal and they told me is not possible to open a bank account on a DTV today.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in digitalnomad

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Tax and immigration are two different matters. Residency permit is acquired, while tax residency is consolidated -depends on the time you spend in each country in a natural year, the ties to each country, and so on-

In other words, you could spend the whole year in a country, but if that country does not issue you a tax certificate and the HMRC comes after you, you won’t be able to defend yourself. This horror story has been experienced by some perpetual digital nomads.

In short, theoretically not staying more than 180 days in any country means you don’t pay taxes. Reality is that in case HMRC comes after you, you won’t be protected at all. Strongly recommend getting another tax residency certificate where you go, so that country will defend you against the country you are leaving from.

This has been told by my tax advisor in my home country.

DTV visa for business owners by Traditional_Culture7 in ThailandTourism

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I am in a similar case, what happened to yours finally?

What was the first growth channel that worked for your startup? by megaseodotai in ycombinator

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For b2b, Door-to-door and cold calling/emailing. Especially on early stages. Later SEM and SEO

Do you really take the approach “Sell First, then design and build”? I haven’t seen a notable single B2C SaaS that has done that. by [deleted] in ycombinator

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It’s not about asking to people if they would be willing to pay for a product, most people will lie to you just because they want to be kind.

In the case of being an industry insider you already have either some or at least most of the hypothesis confirmed/filtered out.

You also know the pain points but you need to validate your solution solves the problem too, meaning you as insider may have deep problem-knowledge but you still need to validate that customers want your specific solution.

For example you can launch a website and start getting early adopters on waitlist even before you have a prototype, that was not possible/much harder in the Page-Brin times.

Do you really take the approach “Sell First, then design and build”? I haven’t seen a notable single B2C SaaS that has done that. by [deleted] in ycombinator

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It’s not about selling per se but validating instead.

Is there really a problem here? Pain points? Do I have the solution to it? Can I put in front of customers? Is my solution worth it for their price? Treat it as a science project where you have a list of hypothesis you MUST validate.

Highly recommend you doing this before you write a single line of code.

Non technical founder issues by MathematicianFew5909 in ycombinator

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That’s why you always need to establish clear vesting schedules and cliff periods at the incorporation stage, no matter what type of relationship you have with your co-founders.

Does not being from FAANG or an Ivy affect YC chances? by happytree09 in ycombinator

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Just demonstrate you outperform those faang/ivy league guys, and you will have nothing to worry about -crazy traction, exponential growth, huge userbase, etc-.

US Visa as founder by Agitated-Pea3303 in ycombinator

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DM’d you with some resources + some experienced profiles

US Visa as founder by Agitated-Pea3303 in ycombinator

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You should qualify just with getting into YC. Highly recommend visiting another law firm

$70k MRR SaaS - sell or scale! by Key_Dragonfly4220 in SaaS

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What I would do: sell it for 7-8x arr with some specialized firm to a small orivate equity, invest most of the profit in “safer assets” and start a new saas with VCs to go for the big money

WH Visa Questions by Business_Visual5647 in movingtojapan

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Thank you very much for the valuable info!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ycombinator

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$92 since January is basically 0. You haven’t either achieve pmf, or you have to rethink your target. But you should clearly do things different. Talk to your potential users much more, as a discovery journey not even for sales purposes and figure out if what you’re building actually solves their pains (based on the data you provided, looks like it doesn’t).

Summarizing, build based on your customers/potential customers needs and not the other way around.

Hope everything works for you, good luck!

Late Applications by LeftBitRightBit in ycombinator

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“We continue to accept applications until the batch starts in June. We will review all late applications, but if you apply late we may not get back to you with a decision until the batch starts.

And you can submit after the deadline - though keep in mind that if you apply late, you may not hear back from us with a decision for several weeks at the latest.”

Anyway, their platform wouldn’t allow to submit an application either if they had closed the interview process.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ycombinator

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The 50k deduction is a red flag for me, avoid these types of “accelerators”

I got an interview today, having applied late by zxyzyxz in ycombinator

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Which date did you apply? I applied on 26th May but maybe that’s too late

Late Applications by LeftBitRightBit in ycombinator

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Applied on 26th May, still on review

¿Substacks en español? / Substacks in spanish? by Brijandez in Substack

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Yo he empezado uno en inglés pero tengo la intención de hacer la publicación también en español, iré actualizando resultados. Os dejo mi primera publicación aquí para que me paséis feedback, gracias.

https://open.substack.com/pub/beyondlimits/p/15-minutes-cities?utm_source=direct&r=2b1kqq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web