prog | (no subject)

I have officially entered the maze of administrivia necessary to create an on-paper business. I fully expect this to take a week or more while I chase pointers and wait for approvals to grind through different bureaucracies.

I'm trying to do this as fast as I can, but I think the System is fine-tuned to normalize all such efforts at expediency. This afternoon, for example, I hauled ass to get one form (MUST BE TYPED, DO NOT FAX) to the State House before 5. Got there just after 4:30, with everything still open, including the corporations department filings window, staffed with a sullen man whose sole job was apparently telling people that they close at 4.

I see that ITA has nerdbait recruitment ads all over the T. It's looking like 2000 again, gord bless them. I hope they're not being irrationally exuberant.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

It's pretty much the case here too, except for the thrice-as-expensive part. (It varies by state; Massachusetts knows damn well how fertile it is for startups and charges dearly for the privilege.) I am going through this runaround in an attempt to save some money by doing things out of the "laziest" order and thus avoiding having to update any earlier filings with new information, which costs like $100 a pop. Ugh.