Samuel Knowlton talks about “The Great ColdFusion Entrepreneurial Adventure (from side jobs to freelancing to your own biz)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.

Show notes

His journey from side jobs to freelancing to his own biz

Moved to NYC to become an actor - did CF side jobs to pay the rent

Side job risks

Missed taxes and compliance

Liability

What to expect

Accounting

Separate biz bank a/c and credit card

Incorporation options

LLC, LLP, S-corp, C corp

Delaware

Wyoming

Government compliance

The unincorporated biz tax in NYC

Liability concerns

Biz insurance

Workers Comp

General liability insurance

Errors and omissions

Umbrella

Your own biz

Employees vs Subcontractors

Payroll and employment taxes

Use a payroll service!

Quickbooks

Xero

Perks

Healthcare

401k

Write-offs

Home office deduction

Infrastructure

Support of your clients

Good will

Legitimacy with clients

Support system eg Jira

Toolsets - hardware and software common to all staff

Ramp Up time

Why are you proud to use CF?

WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year?

Docker and containers

What are you looking forward to at Into The Box?

Building and managing your own enterprise: Infrastructure, Support, Payroll, Taxes and Toolsets. An introduction to your own business from the founder of inLeague (15+ years in the market) with an emphasis on how ordinary developers can manage a shop, grow a team, and still write code. Topics will not include Getting Rich Quick or Venture Capital.

Into the Box - Samuel Knowlton

Mentioned in this episode

Different business types

Types of business insurance 

Types of payroll taxes 

Common business deductions

Xero

CFML slack channel

Jira

Forgebox

Into The Box

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Bio

Samuel Knowlton

Founder and president of inLeague, boutique ColdFusion software development house.

Interview Transcript

Michaela:        Welcome back to the show. And today, we’re going to be looking at the great entrepreneurial adventure using ColdFusion. How Samuel Knowlton went from side jobs to freelancing to his own business. And we'll look at some of the risks involved in doing side jobs you might not be aware of in particular is this really wacky taxi came across that didn't even make sense to be honest to me. And we’ll also look at some of the liability concerns you may have in working for other people; freelancing or in your own business. And some of the perks you can make some money by incorporating as well so. We'll also look at infrastructure you might want to set up, and how you support your clients if you start a business, and the tool sets you use for your ColdFusion business. So welcome Samuel.

Samuel:           Thank you very much Michaela.

Michaela:        Yes and if you don't know Samuel is the founder and president of in league which is a beauty ColdFusion software development house. Been around for about 16 years now. Congratulations! I think in dog years that's probably about four lifetimes right.

Samuel:           Well that said still what half your company so you have something to look forward to.

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