Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Peter Horadan, CTO and EVP of Engineering at Avalara (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: The customer has everything happening in an auto mode. They don’t really have to worry about it as long as they authorize you and you have ways of figuring out which authority accepts what kind of filing. Accordingly, you handle them digitally or manually. That’s opaque to the customer. Peter Horadan: Exactly. We

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Roundtable Recap: September 29 – Funding Fat Startups with Asheem Chandna, General Partner at Greylock

During this week’s roundtable, our guest was Asheem Chandna, General Partner at Greylock. The discussion was specifically focused on the topic of funding fat startups, something Asheem has done routinely, one of the very few VCs still doing so. Very interesting discussion. Recruitee As for the pitches, first up pitching, Perry Oostdam from Amsterdam presented

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323rd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 323rd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, September 29, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.

323rd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 323rd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, September 29, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Peter Horadan, CTO and EVP of Engineering at Avalara (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: You parameterize all these different pieces that are used in calculating the taxes. If I understood you correctly, even in a situation where merchants are selling through Amazon, Amazon will calculate the total sales tax to be collected on the transaction but when it comes to the merchant’s actual filing in all these

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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Peter Horadan, CTO and EVP of Engineering at Avalara (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Automated tax filing has been around for a long time. I did a story on Sabrix. That must have been 2007. We are in 2016. Peter Horadan: You’re right. It has been around for quite some time. One of the things we find amazing is that it has not yet been automated. Most

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Thursday, September 29 – 323rd 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 323rd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, September 29, 2016, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and she’ll answer any

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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Peter Horadan, CTO and EVP of Engineering at Avalara (Part 1)

The increasing adoption of electronic commerce and the related national/global nature of the business has created challenges for merchants on the tax calculation and filing front. Read on to learn more. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to Avalara and yourself. Peter Horadan: I’m EVP of Engineering and CTO for Avalara. We help

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