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How Did Anthony Eden's Living Social Nights Start Paying?

The opening stretch was independent contracting, about a year and a half of software work to pay the bills. Living Social came next. The registrar was carved out in the contract as pre-existing work so it would not conflict with the day job. Nights and weekends went into growing it, and the first three years paid no salary at all.

A Florida limited liability company in 2010 was the legal start, using an entity that already existed. A paycheck began near the end of 2012, or maybe early 2013, once revenue could pay the other people on it. The person taking that salary was the third employee.

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Anthony Eden, Founder and CEO of DNSimple ·

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  3. How Did DNSimple Keep Its Developer Niche?The niche was engineers and developers building web apps. They wanted to set domain records and leave, without hosting and without an email provider bundled in.
  4. How Did Anthony Eden's Script Become DNSimple's Name Server?DNSimple customers could not put a CNAME on the apex of a domain such as dnsimple.com. A Heroku customer wanted the naked domain to point at a Heroku site.
  5. Why Does DNSimple Take Bank Transfers on Only One Plan?On the show, DNSimple changed billing so larger customers could pay by ACH. A credit card was the only payment option in the early days.
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