In this episode of Startups for the Rest of Us, I know and I talk about U.S. corporate structures,

taxes, and why what you do now can impact you years down the line. This is Startup for

The Rest of Us, episode 442.

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Whether you've built your first product or you're just thinking about it.

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You know, it's same old, same old.

I'm mostly spending my time arguing with lawyers and accountants and things around Tiny Seeds. So that's always exciting.

It's probably been, oh, since before microcom, it's been nonstop lawyering pretty much.

So that's both expensive and frustrating at the same time.

Yeah.

You know, I was looking at some notes I had from a couple years ago.

I found this old notebook and I had some goals, personal goals that I didn't announce on the podcast,

but personal goals for myself.

And I said one of the bullets was I don't want to talk to any lawyers this year for any reason it was like 2017 or something it was exactly yeah yeah that's been that's been

kind of a yeah it's been unavoidable for me lately and it's uh mostly with tiny seed stuff like

the main actually the main hurdle on which I guess we'll get get into this later it's like the main

hurdle's been like you've got to these they're lawyers who are specialize in whatever, right? You know, like you wouldn't go to a securities

lawyer if you need to be, you know, defended for, you know, a hit and run. But you talk to lawyers

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