A business (an enterprise or a firm) is an organization engaged in the trade of goods and/or services to consumers or other enterprises.
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Question About C-Corp, Shareholder, and Officer
Person A wants to start a C-Corp in California operating a news website. He is wondering if the following form is legal?
A is the only Shareholder and the only Director owning 100% equity.
A will ...
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Foreign LLC vs Domestic LLC - Wyoming & South Carolina
Please help. I'll make this as simple and concise as possible:
I will be manufacturing my own parts, AT HOME, in South Carolina. I intend to sell the products exclusively online with an online ...
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Delaware LLC loan to member
A Delaware LLC has not elected S or C corp status. The manager owns most of the member interests. The operating agreement gives the manager complete control to do as he sees fit. The manager wants to ...
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How shall i proceed with my startup? [closed]
I am a web designer and i have built my website individually. I think i can monetize this website and possibly get looked at by some investors. I have hundreds of notes and early designs but i ...
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How to take a draw in a multi-member LLC?
My business partner and I are forming an LLC. As I understand, members of an LLC are not employees and therefore are not on payroll. Instead they pay themselves by taking a draw from the LLC funds.
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Appropriate equity for marketing / development work?
Looking for a little guidance on an equity offer for a project I'm involved in.
I was approached six months ago by a founder-developer who has written software to accomplish an idea originated by a ...
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Designation of a single employee startup [duplicate]
Well, I belong to a single employee( which is me) business. It is even not registered. So what should be my designation?
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Starting Online MLM Business! [closed]
Everyone in online marketing knows you got to have traffic in order to get leads. I am looking for free ways to get the ball started. I do free traffic sites, list builders, google email extraction ...
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Comparing Investments: Selling land vs. starting a business [closed]
I have a situation where I need to compare some investing alternatives.
We and my partners own a piece of land with high commercial value, that was bought 7 years ago. Now the real estate market ...
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Silicon Valley No-No's [closed]
Leo Widrich begins his recent post "The Pitch Deck We Used To Raise $500,000 For Our Startup," by saying, "One of the big no-no’s we’ve learnt about early on in Silicon Valley is ..."
What are the ...
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What happens when a corporation(small restaurant) declare bankruptcy?(Canada)
This corporation is a small restaurant in Canada.
If there are debts need to be paid to the other companies and to the government, what is the liability of the major share holders and people who are ...
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Can I incorporate my internet business in California/Delaware without a “physical address”?
I am planning a startup in internet space and I live in California. I do not wish to use my home address as the place-of-business (physical) address in the incorporation documents due to concerns ...
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UK company expanding to US, sponsoring b visa
I work for a UK LTD company who wants to expand to the US. They're arranging the paperwork to start a US business entity, and we have a queue of US customers that means this business will be ...
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Developing a product/service as a result of requirements of existing employer
A is currently employed at company X which in turn is a vendor for company Z. A realized that certain aspects of running the business for Z which X is failing at can be productized/offered as a ...
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Legal consultation in India
I just started working in India and the firm,I am working for, faces some small legal issues frequently. Small things like boundary dispute, customers check bounce etc. Since we have offices at ...
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Most Appropriate Business Type for Selling a Virtual Product?
I run a business where sells certain ebooks and pdfs online. I want to form an official business entity just to be able to operate under that name, protect myself from liability as well as get any ...
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Pricing for Onshore/Offshore Product Development [closed]
I just opened a software solutions startup and I have questions about customer pricing. The business model is to use offshore engineers with a US project manager, as well as local engineers, with ...
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DBA, LLC, or what? For a virtual asset marketplace
My friend and I are currently developing a marketplace for virtual assets. However we are not quite sure how we should set the company up. Do we need only a DBA, or should we go with the LLC route in ...
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What are the most important business goals of a homepage? [closed]
For a website / app homepage what are the most important business goals? Being aware of the minimal amount of time to hold the users attention, its really important that the page is designed in such a ...
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is it all about how much sales you will make?
In the beginning of our online retail shop, we always have many thinkings about how much profit will we make per item that we sell in our online shop. But by the time, after 2 years, we ran the ...
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Do I need to register a new business name to trade as it
I am currently working on a new start up, we have some capital and are currently "trading as" the potential new company name, through an existing business.
My question is do I need to register this ...
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Salary to expect for a “well-funded” Manhattan startup
I have a second interview this week for a "well funded Manhattan Startup". They are looking to fulfill the position of both Account Manager and Business Development Manager. I am coming from a very ...
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Help me choosing my business name, I have a few options [closed]
I am planning to start my new business from where I will be proposing website / software / smartphone application / audio-visual (audio video programs and CDs) / development apart from proposing ...
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What's a 2.5% “premium charge”? [closed]
What's a "premium charge" in the context of trading in multi-currency?
For example, MtGox states that there is a 2.5% premium when a trade involves orders in different currencies:
Q. Are there ...
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Forming a US LLC and paying taxes while outside the US
I am currently a resident alien in Virginia. I have been in the US since November 2011 (never left) and I have a J-1 visa, which expires on February 2014. I am going to leave US and go back to my home ...
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Notarizing signitures for the official business contract?
I was just wondering if it is common to ask your co-founders to get their signitures notroized? I trust these people as we are good friends so I don't want to offend them if I asked to get it ...
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How relevant is business plan/business model before starting up?
I have worked with some startups, and heard people saying,
they have bla...bla...bla business plan that is way better than their competitor, and for sucess you must have a good business model
I ...
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How much equity should I give up to the app developers?
I am in the process of designing a mobile app and i'm at the stage where I need to finalise the cost with the developers. They have sent me a quote which I believe to be quite high, however they have ...
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Looking for the right web agency partner
I've started a small web development agency in Cambridge, Uk and I'm just to busy to handle all the work load...I feel like I'm missing out on potential work and I'm starting to drop the ball in some ...
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How to generate revenue from a website using visitor counts? Is there a standard way for doing it?
I want to build a web application that would showcase realestate properties of different owners. One way to generate revenue from this is charging for their property posting and for featured posting? ...
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Can I use the registered agent address as the “actual business address” in CA and DE? [duplicate]
When using web services such as bizfilings.com to file articles of incorporation, they provide free registered agent for a few months. The articles for incorporation using these services ask for ...
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Do I control any “equipment” or “assets” in the US?
On the iTunes Connect iAd agreement it states
"I declare that the beneficial owner does not have any employees in the United States and does not own, lease or control any equipment or other assets in ...
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How do I advertise the products in my rental business?
I am starting an electronic rental business. Legally, am I allowed to put advertisements in print and web for my business that feature a picture of the electronic and name saying that I rent these ...
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How to get long time clients
We are a startup web development venture based in India,we have some one time clients from e-commerce industry but they will not benefit us in the long run.So we are planning to showcase the work we ...
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Can I resubmit under my company an abandon patent that was under my name?
If I submitted a patent under my personal name and it was abandoned, can I later resubmit or rather submit it under my company name?
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I am non resident alien and want to get I - T - I - N
I am non resident alien and want to get I - T - I - N . I am launching e commerce website and want to register this website as L - L - C business in USA . As per my little research , I got point that ...
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Side Business on Contractors of current Company?
I work at an Oil & Gas Company in Texas and we use many 1099 contractors to get jobs done (welding, casing, and other services. I have started a side Bookkeeping/Accounting Business with very few ...
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LLC with 2 members vs Corp to Corp
I am considering forming an LLC, developing a B2B service platform. I am an independent consultant/developer, and have been working with another individual for several years. Over this time, we have ...
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How do I manage my business money vs personal money?
I recently received my LLC for my business and was able to open my business checking account. Now I have to figure out how to pay myself. When I get my check from my contractor, should I deposit it ...
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What are the pros and cons of having a business model - snatching other businesses existing customers, just a month before renewal?
What are the pros and cons of having a business model - snatching other businesses existing customers, especially a month or two before they renew with them?
Is there any business term for what I ...
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Solar retailer business in india?
I am Sakthivel from india. I am willing to start a retail selling business on all solar products to general public in chennai. There are few facts for this decision.
My state is in deficiency of ...
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Identify the different points of view that an investor will have for a new business
I am currently trying to create from scratch a new business. Is a high cost start business and I dont have the necessary funds, only the information of how to do it, that means from the customers and ...
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When is a business cofounder needed
I am technical founder right now of my own software startup.
Right now, I'm developing the software and am seeking a business cofounder.
I lack domain expertise in the various parts of the business ...
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How to force people state whether they will really contribute/work to a business
I am about creating a spin-off from University. I will quit my job later even. I talked with all my colleagues and they like the idea and support it. My experience with them in academic projects is ...
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Projecting Sales for Web Dev Business Plan
I am putting together a business plan for my Web Development startup.
Cost of materials, marketing, etc. are the easy (fixed or one-time cost) parts - but I am trying to figure out how to create a ...
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How can some companies offer low shipping rates using FedEx?
There are companies that are able to ship a mattress with a shipping charge of $5. There are many, like Amazon, that are able to offer free shipping.
Logic tells me that you achieve this by ...
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Business model for a startup
In planning to build an mobile-app based startup, how good and effective is a business model that depends on other products? Or would a rather better business model be where the app by itself is a ...
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What's the best business book you have ever read? [closed]
I need inspirational and pragmatic business books.
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SaaS company incentives
We run a Enterprise SaaS company.
Monthly, we pay our salesmen and distributors a commission upon their clients sales.
I'm afraid we're not giving incentives to software development, hardware ...
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Business Entity for Partnership question, or Unincorporated Business?
I'm planning on registering for a reseller's permit and it's telling me to register for a business entity. Currently I have a friend who wants to start something with me. Is it a good idea to do the ...
