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What is a good cash/equity mix for a 1099 programmer and/or designer for 4 to 6 month term?
We have been coding now for about 6 months on our startup. Up until now, we have bootstrapped the entire project on pennies, being cash poor. Fortunately we were able to raise a small friends and ...
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LLC Pass Through Income Taxation
I'm working for a client who is doing business as a LLC in CA. He represents merchants by advertising them on certain websites. His commission is taken out from the sales received from the websites, ...
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How to be competitive on freelance sites
I am a web designer/developer in the US and I am very interested in obtaining freelance work via the Internet. However, sites such as ODesk and Elance seem unfavorable to freelancers who need to ...
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Paying a contractor to be “on call”?
We're looking at hiring a systems administrator contractor at a certain hourly rate to do sysadmin-y things. So far, this is easy enough for me to wrap my brain around.
But during certain hours, ...
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What are fair terms to hire a business development consultant?
As a startup, we are talking to a business development consultant. He will do business development in a particular country for us. What are the key terms we need to be careful about in a contract we ...
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Switching Incorporation Business Name to Independent Contractor
What is the process of switching a US-registered fictitious business name from an Inc ran by one individual to an Independent Contractor?
This question is based around the Inc deing dissolved, the ...
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Sending Subcontractor 1099
If a contractor hires a subcontractor (including them in the contract) for a job, what are the contractor's tax obligations?
If I understand it correctly, all that the contractor has to do is write ...
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Creating a business from a customized application solution?
I have been working on a medium sized web application for a large client, on site, for 3 years. I work as a contractor on the project, handling most of the coding, but the application itself and code ...
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Paying S-Corp Owner Directly from Main Bank Account
I run a small US-based startup, (an S Corp), I am also a contractor of this business.
Am I able to withdrawl money from the main business banking account and pay myself (a contractor) without writing ...
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How much equity for a graphic designer doing contract work? [duplicate]
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A graphic designer working for equity
My business partner and I have been working on our project for a couple months. We are 50-50 co-founders both working full-time and ...
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Rights of parties holding interest in a company
I've been part of a small team at a startup (LLC) for about a year and a half now (since inception), working unders a PSA (Professional Services Agreement) that grants me a "membership interest".
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How much equity should I give for contracted labor?
I am the sole founder of a bootstrapped startup (idea conceived by me, revenue model and business plan developed by me, and I filed a provisional process patent for the concept). I have incoporated ...
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stock options or convertible notes?
I will be joining as a senior developer on a startup and I will be working 20 hours a week remotely. I have a day job which pays my bills now.
The company is not funded yet so we will not be given ...
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Is there anything special an underage founder/freelancer doing business with startups needs to be aware of?
Since I'm not a legal adult, is there anything special I need to watch out for in terms of startup culture?
Technically, I can get out of any legal agreement (since they can't be binding until I'm ...
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Hiring first person employee vs contractor
I have bootstrapped a startup in NY and am ready to hire a person. Should I hire this person as a contractor or as an employee. I realize that there are many laws and logistics around hiring an ...
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Contracts for Revenue Sharing
I'm an independent game developer with a team consisting of solely of myself. I am considering to hire a Creative Director who will help me complete my projects. I am promising 10% of the revenue ...
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What year to payments to subcontractors count, for tax purposes?
In what year do payments to subcontactors count, for tax purposes? For example if I don't make the payment until after Jan 1 but the money was earned the previous year, which tax year does that count ...
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Is this the basic thing to provide address detail to the client?
Hi I got the first client from one of the freelancing website.But they are asked to send the address proof to them.In our first conversation they asked this and my bank details.Apart from this they ...
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Taxes on freelance/consulting work
I am not sure how I should be paying taxes for freelance/consulting work. With some of my clients I just signed a consulting agreement, and an NDA and then I invoice them. They pay me via credit card ...
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Where to find a template for a general-purpose Independent Contractor Agreement?
We want to hire some freelancers in the US, Germany, Russia and Japan.
The book "The Business of iPhone App Development" from Apress references an Imdependent Contractor Agreement template. The goal ...
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Difference between contractor and intern?
I have a small company and we are constantly looking for contractors (we plan to have employees in the future, but for now we want to stick to contractors). I noticed if I say that interns are welcome ...
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Contract with a startup and bill a convertible note?
Some friends have a great idea for a startup. I like the idea, and I think it will succeed, but I'm not in a place to work on it full-time. I can put in time on the side while keeping my day job.
So ...
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As a founder/shareholder/officer in a startup, do I pay myself as an employee(W2) or contractor(1099-MISC)?
I've looked around, but can't seem to find a straightforward answer for this.
I am one of 4 founders in a start-up incorporated as a C-corp. 2 of us work full-time on the start-up, and so far have ...
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Contract forms to work with small businesses
I have been working with relatively large companies as a contractor. In that setup, I didn't really concern about "contract" since they provided with all necessary contract forms and I just needed to ...
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How To Find Contracting Work
I have a full-time job and do some contracting work on the side but am looking to quit and do full-time contracting work. Historically, my contracting work has come through my personal network, but ...
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Providing a Cell phone for a commission sales person
I want to provide a cell phone for a contracted sales person for a couple of reasons. The biggest one being if they stop communicating with people he is workng with for my company, I want to retain ...
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Developing open-source project via sponsorship or company-to-individual contracting as a path to a startup/incorporation?
I've been working on open-source projects for years basically without pay. Although I had a salary while I helped develop these projects under the umbrella need for something at work, much of the ...
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Retainer fees for freelance software engineers - is this common practice, can I use this?
I have a relatively new business - I've recently been freelancing as a software engineer for 6 months, working from my own office for a couple of companies having contracted on site before for about ...
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What are my tax obligations when outsourcing/contracting?
I have an LLC and I'm looking to either hire part-time contractors/interns in the US, or outsource some portion via websites like elance.
I am not very familiar with the taxes or benefits that I am ...
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What are the proper steps (contracts, terms, payments agreements) when hiring freelance developers?
I'm looking to hire some developers to help bang out some features of my app that I can't do myself yet. I'm going to be able to give them pretty specific tasks and if they do well continue on and ...
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Micro Company started, do they need to incorporate, or there is a better way?
If one individual has been delivering services to other corporations. So far they have been paying the individual to his name "John Doe". The individual now is hiring sub-contractors, to do other ...
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What are good sites for finding CMS data entry sub-contractors?
I prefer to do work on my own sites, but I occasionally take one-off small business website jobs where I work with a designer, who owns the client relationship. Most of these sites are content ...
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Can anyone help me make sense of the TIN and DBA?
About two years ago, I began building a side business doing IT consulting, which never actually took off because I got so busy with my day job. In the process of building the side business, I opened ...
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Freelancer to work full time from Spain?
After having a freelancer make a site for me, I'm looking to have the designer to work for me for a longer set period of time, the problem is he's in Spain. Is there any other legal paperwork besides ...
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What steps to take to start a consulting company?
I am writing today to understand and read what your take is in starting a consulting company.
Currently I hold a day job, which I am happy with, but I want to become more flexible in terms of ...
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Paying remote contractors?
Let's say I hire some remote contractors. Some are based in the US, and some are international.
I want to pay the contractors on a bi-weekly basis.
What is the best service to use for paying my ...
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Other sites like odesk.com that you have used?
I currently user odesk.com for some SEO, design and data entry work, but I find generally the quality of people to be not that great. Only about 30% of my jobs get done properly and I'm finding am ...
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How did you transition from Big Work to independent freelancer
Specifically, I am interested in situations where:
people jumped ship from a full-time job without much prior planning, and
people who set a goal to eventually leave a full-time job and then rolled ...
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Should I give an Independent Contractor a Company Email Address
There was a ton of great IC information here (http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/511/hiring-sales-people-as-independant-contractors)
HOWEVER, no mention of allowing the IC to use a company email ...
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1099 limitations of how much work you can give a contractor. Need some help with that
I think I am pretty good (having dealt with tons of contractor developers) at staying within independent contractor rules and keeping the Labor Department at bay, when it comes to using ...
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Charge sales tax for a service provided by independent contractor in another state?
So I have a sales tax question. Yes, I will be contacting an attorney, but I figured I should do some research before spending $$$.
Here is a situation. A company based in state A (office + ...
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Sub-contract Contract
When sub-contracting out web/graphic design what do you include in your contract with the sub-contractor? One specific area I'm curious about is issues regarding the sub-contractors online portfolio.
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What are the costs and tax implications of hiring an independent contractor?
Our company is currently thinking about hiring an independent contractor to expand our software product.
I was wondering what the costs (insurance etc...) and tax implications of this might be if ...
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How can I determine a good rate for freelancing?
I've currently got a startup and a full-time job. I'm looking to transition to part-time freelancing so I can focus more on my startup. However, I'm walking into this completely blind, and I need ...
