Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Taxes, Debts and other fun things due by April 15th!

So aside from having to deal with dissolution fees & taxes from my prior startup Viabuzz LLC. - I have to deal with other debts that are coming out of the woodworks...

When my wife and I moved to Denver we didn't have insurance kick in right away and our son got so sick due to weather changes that we incurred an emergency hospital bill because he needed an IV injection.

We got insurance for a few months and shortly after we decided to shop for another carrier- wouldn't you know it- our daughter falls on a corner of a side lamp table and receives 5 stitches over her eyebrow at 18 months of age- whammo another hospital bill...

Here I am trying to pull off being an entrepreneur, a consultant, a husband and a dad...cold harsh lesson that I'm learning is that things happen for a reason and often times it is not for any reason that you completely understand or are always immediately able to understand due to human nature or man's nature of fighting against nature and the laws that bind us (such as sleep, proper diet, socialization, etc.).

Next to worrying about taxes this year I had a project that went extremely sour in 2007- I was a consultant for one project called GenBB.com and I hired a team of guys in India called Wiantech to produce a php based social network for me. I had the wireframes all layed out and it was an extreme disaster for me personally and professionally. My client and I lost a total of $55,000 to this firm. Around the same time I was going to have develop my corp site which was amusingly done in less than one night and they wanted to bill me $400.

This happened around August last year and as of a few nights ago I receive this email from 2 guys in India threatening me to pay $300 or else...

"Or else what???"...needless to say- I would not recommend anyone working with this firm Wiantech ever if you are in the market to outsource your web development work or for anything.

I am working on a project now with a group called V2Solutions for another project that is Microsoft Windows based and the owner Vijay is in Silicon Valley and these guys I would recommend for all their professionalism, process and level of communication. You get exactly what you pay for and then more with this team.

Now I just need to find a good creative accountant:)

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