Friday, January 16, 2015

Tax prep services for expats

Granted, this already exists: http://www.expatcpa.com/about - but it may be possible to do some kind of automation. And at any rate the automation of accounting and tax compliance for small business is a core concern.

Salient: http://www.irs.gov/irm/part4/irm_04-061-007.html (controlled foreign corporations)

Saturday, March 22, 2014

Translation Office 3000

This tool actually does a lot of what I want to do with the administration service. Study it!

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Designing a winning business model

From the Harvard Business Review. I bogged down in the middle, but it's a good article with lots of case study type stuff.

TaaS

Terminology as a Service, as envisaged by the Europeans. This is essentially my current business idea.

Saturday, November 2, 2013

Unbundling as business concept generator

The post itself is not all that interesting, but the concept is: take a large-audience service and "unbundle" part of it in a narrow specialization, and bam! you might have something you can run with.

Patio11 and rainy-day ideas for process improvements

Patrick always has good ideas about how to run a modern business. Here are some ideas for implementation when you have some time.

Getting massive traction

A little slideshow (port-mortem) about Limk and how they got traction before going for funding. Thought-provoking.

Sunday, September 29, 2013

Spaced repetition

Here's a fantastically researched article on spaced repetition. It's so well-researched I'm going to try this myself, using Mnemosyne.

It would be interesting to find flashcard sets, like, everywhere and use them for domain frameworks or something. Unfortunately there are no prepared Mnemosyne sets for Hungarian.

It would be much *more* interesting to do some kind of gamification site.

Saturday, September 28, 2013

Gamification of quant skills

It would be cool to explore gamification of quant programming skills in a tutorial website.

Wednesday, September 25, 2013