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Is the marketplace required to issue the 1099-MISC if the threshold for the 1099-K is not met if all payments are done via credit card? I'm guessing the answer is "no" but the blog post isn't quite clear on that.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2012) on Saturday December 01, 2012 @09:38PM (#4859870)

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  | San Francisco - Front-End/Back-End/Mobile Engineers   |
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TenderTree is on its way to becoming the next AirBnB. We allow families to find trusted caregivers near them at half the cost of a traditional agency. It's a HUGE $80B market that's massively screwed up.

We’re growing crazy fast - we’ve done over $100,000 in care in under 4 months in our private beta. And everyone’s taking notice; we’ve been featured by top media outlets such as NBC, Wired magazine, Forbes, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and others.

We are profitable and have been generating revenue from day one (how many startups can say that out here?) We recently closed a round of seed financing of $1.3M to ramp up our growth. We're backed by 500 Startups.

We're hiring web and mobile developers. Here are the requirements:

  * Ability to code FAST and pick up new stuff quickly

  * Raw intelligence - kinda self explanatory

  * Hunger - this isn’t a 9 to 5 job; we’re disrupting a $100B industry

  * Determination - you will walk through walls to make shit happen

  * Hacker mentality - are you good at hacking or reverse engineering systems?
Nice to Have

  * RoR, git, heroku background

  * JS background
Not Required

  * Any specific number of years of experience - you could be straight out of college or have 10 years of experience. We're open to both.

  * Any specific language or platform knowledge

To apply, send an email to [email protected] with a short description of why you're interested in TenderTree.
Re:A Hacker's Journey To Find A Co-Founder on Tuesday December 13, 2011 @01:58AM (#3346704)
My startup is in the home care space.

You're right - it is indeed very difficult to find someone that is equally excited about the space you're working on. That's why it's better to focus on building the team and even consider working on something else that you both are excited about. The initial idea is often times quite useless anyway, unless you've gotten quite far in validating it and gaining traction, etc.