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Posts by Ricky Nave

link to How to fill out form W9 as a freelancer or content creator

How to fill out form W9 as a freelancer or content creator

Filling out IRS form W-9 is a required part of most affiliate program sign up processes and is required by most businesses before they'll hire you for freelancing or independent contractor work. In...

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How partners got mad by speaking different languages

"We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are."-- The Talmud In 2013, Daniel Burstein and a team of his coworkers at MECLABS were organizing a conference panel about email...

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A&W v. McDonald’s — How to save millions of dollars

“We were aggressively marketing a one-third-pound hamburger for the same price… but despite our best efforts, including first-rate TV and radio promotional spots, they just weren’t...

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Google search data implies Americans are scared

Over the past 7 days, Google search volume for queries containing the word "recession" have more than doubled (see graph below): Various versions of the query "what is a bear market" surged...

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Six efficiencies of (small) scale companies

Big companies have the money to build big efficient factories, but not every company is a factory.  Sometimes, there is an advantage in being small.  Here are six advantages of (small)...

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Map (color-coded) of countries that banned crypto

As of June 2022: The EU failed to pass a proposed ban on proof-of-work crypto mining (e.g. Bitcoin mining) Russia decided against banning crypto or crypto mining (possibly motivated by the...

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About the Author

In college, Ricky studied physics & math, won a prestigious research competition hosted by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, started several small businesses including an energy chewing gum business and a computer repair business, and graduated with a thesis in algebraic topology. After graduating, Ricky attended grad school at Duke University in the mathematics PhD program where he worked on quantum algorithms & non-Euclidean geometry models for flexible proteins. He also worked in cybersecurity at Los Alamos during this time before eventually dropping out of grad school to join a startup working on formal semantic modeling for legal documents. Finally, he left that startup to start his own in the finance & crypto space. Now, he helps entrepreneurs pay less capital gains tax.

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