Tax Considerations for US Employees in Canada

 OMG, when I found out that Peter Brooke, the absolute legend of international VC and private equity, was gonna spill the tea on a panel at Harvard Business School, I was like, yasss, I'm so there! Like, literally. I went to the event, peeped the sixty-eight-year-old Brooke dipping offstage and into the men's bathroom, and just chilled. When he popped out, I totally yeeted myself in front of him. “Hey, I'm Linda, and I've started this sick org to support entrepreneurs all over the globe. " I'd totally be down to swing by your office for a hot minute to spill the tea on it." Brooke didn't even blink. I obvi wasn't the first person to flex on him like this. "Who else is vibin' with you?""He said, fam." "Um, like, Bill Sahlman is totally vibing with it," I said, just freestyling. "Fr?" Sahlman is totally vibing with this? OMG, like, here's my card, fam. Hit me up, fam.

OMG, like minutes later I totally stormed into Bill's office and was like, "Guess what?!" 

I'm like 99% sure Peter Brooke is gonna cochair our global advisory board, fam. And he's like, "Yo, he wants you to be the other cochair." Not gonna lie, it took them three whole years, at the third annual shindig of Endeavor's global advisory board, to realize that neither of them had actually agreed to be a part of our organization. Ayo, this wild chick be comin' at you with a knife, no cap. Only it's a butter knife, fam. The lit way to butter you up, fam. This flexin' of talent clearly benefits dolphins, fam. OMG, like at first glance, nonprofit entrepreneurs are totally gonna have a rough time when the economy gets tough. And like, it's totally true that gov grants and philanthropic dollars like, legit disappear during recessions. But hiring gets hella easier, fam. When making that bread gets hella tough for peeps, having more vibes becomes hella crucial. A report from Johns Hopkins University spilling the tea on employment for the first decade of the twenty-first century, a period that included two recessions, found that nonprofit employment was flexin' with an average annual growth rate of 2.1 percent while for-profit employment was straight up declining by 0.6 percent. I peeped this firsthand at Endeavor, fam.

Second, periods of insta provide a lit opportunity for taking mad chances.

There’s, like, this big misconception in the world of entrepreneurship that if you wanna be successful, you gotta have mad cash, a bougie degree, a lit network, or some mix of all that. The tea is usually the total opposite, sis. Most of the entrepreneurs I come across on the reg are totally lacking in elite connections and don't have trust funds as a backup, smh. What they do possess is mad chutzpah, fam. Still, learning to flex that audacity is hella tricky. There are, like, so many ways you can totally slay the art. Flex on the haters. U can never learn 2 much about the field u tryna disrupt. If a major consulting group is like, totally working on a case for a cruise line, they pay their junior employees to dress as tourists, go on rivals’ cruises, and take hella pics. When Sam Walton was getting started, he was lowkey obsessed with creeping around rival stores on fam trips. His wifey would wait in the whip with the fam, who always be like, "Oh, no, Daddy, not another store." Once Walton was lowkey creepin' around a Price Club in San Diego, jotting down notes on a tape recorder, when an employee caught him. Like, Walton had to totally spill the tea and give up the receipts, so he slid into Robert Price's DMs with a note, ya know? "Robert, your guy is just too lit." Here's the tea. If you wanna peep it, you def got that flex, but I got some other fire on here that I'm lowkey tryna get back." 

Four days later the tape recorder was hella returned, with all of Walton's notes still on it.

The Internet has made this kind of sleuthing hella easier. U can totally set a Google alert for ur competition or peep their personnel moves on LinkedIn. #sneaky A LinkedIn career adviser spilled the tea to Forbes that not creepin' on competitors was like, one of the major no-no's newbies be makin'. "If you're a game developing startup," she said, "you should def be keeping up with Electronic Arts," which lets you know who's dipped from the company. "Maybe you wanna hire them, maybe they've got some tea they can spill, but either way, keeping tabs on the industry players can give you a major flex."  Starting in 2009 we were able to bring on a squad of senior managers—execs with twenty years of experience in top-notch companies like Dell and Bloomberg. We became, like, a total magnet for college and biz school grads looking for jobs with mad impact and meaning, ya know? And we weren't alone, fam. Applications at Teach For America grew by a whole third, fam; at AmeriCorps, they straight up tripled. Diana Aviv, head of a nonprofit trade group, said it's like, sooo normal to hear about, like, over a hundred apps for just one job. "Some of these people haven't been employed for a hot minute and are stoked to have something," she said. "But once they're there, they've totally flexed and realigned themselves towards public service."