All legal aspects of a business including incorporation, intellectual property and contracts
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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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Selling a company for an earnout structure? [closed]
I have to be very cagey here as I'm under confidentiality, hence the throwaway account -- my apologies.
OK so I run a startup in a specific industry vertical. Big Player X in that vertical approached ...
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How do I know if it is safe to use a logo?
Can we use a logo+name for our product even if other companies use it? We are in an industry which has no other business using the logo, but there is a clothing company, and probably some other ...
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How do I prove that its all my IP
I'm involved in a deal where an industry organization is attempting to white label my software. Their Chairperson is a lawyer, so they are cautious on the legal stuff. They want to be absolutely sure ...
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How to keep information about the side business private from corporationwiki etc.?
I am looking to incorporate a startup online business as a side business in california. I want to keep the information about my involvement private until I'm somewhat confident about the enterprise. ...
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Where can I get a template legal document confirming my share in a startup? [closed]
I agreed to do some minor work to a newborn startup for percentage of shares, not cash as they do not have it (yet). Where can I get a template of legal document (for the UK) which says that I do the ...
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Would the names/affiliation of officers of my side-business get posted on the internet?
I heard of websites such as corporationwiki that dig internet/state records for company information and post that data online. How many such sites are there and how can I stop this information being ...
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Operational email policy
We've recently launched a platform and we start aquiring emails from users, partly from facebook and partly on their own merit.
We want to start sending operational emails to our users, for example: ...
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Language for Articles of Organization LLC Ownership
I am in the process of drafting the articles of organization for my LLC.
I would like to specify in there, that the ownership of the LLC is specified with units, and LLC members receive a certain ...
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Business Cards DBA
I am a designer and I have a client that has an LLC business and they have decided to run another business simultaneously. Because both business share the same space and use many of the same tools and ...
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2answers
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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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Company formation for forex trading and paying taxes
I do work with currencies trading (Forex), I do have Forex traders who trade with my capital, and it is increasing gradually.
What I want to do is to find a solution which allows me to run trading in ...
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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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215 views
Left my startup pre-launch. What percent equity is fair?
6 months ago I quit my job to start a startup with two other people. I'm the business guy. I worked full-time on the project from day No. 1, and made substantial contributions to branding, customer ...
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Do I need to Incorporate to be able to hire legally?
Do I need to register OR incorporate my start up to be able to legally hire people?
This start up will be in India.
Can I give written appointment letter if I am just a sole proprietor? Will it be ...
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334 views
Sticky IP situation
We are in a sticky situation, that is no ones fault but our own. We had approached a developer to join our startup. After showing him the project he was excited and decided to join. Our mistake was ...
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Removing a bad partner?
Two month ago I've joined with two friends to build a startup.
I came with the idea and we started working. Two weeks ago, the first partner left the project due to lack of time.
The second partner is ...
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Which country to start a business in as an MSB? [closed]
Assuming someone wanted to start a money transmitting business that had US customers, but didn't have the capital to deal with FinCen regulations, which countries would make suitable places to start ...
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website trust, making charitable donations transparent
So I have a question about the theoretical holding of charitable donations. So I have a start up idea that I am busy coding away on... At the base of the idea is spreading the wealth of humanity, so ...
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I built a very profitable start-up business for my employer over the last 6 years & need HELP! [closed]
I need to know if I have just cause to sue. AZ is a right-to-work state, but I built a complete start-up business from "nothing with little or no support from the owners of this new business".
I was ...
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1answer
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Typo in contracts
I have found a typo in a contract that we are currently disputing with one of our service providers. The typo seems to change the implied meaning of the paragraph:
... fees and expenses, including ...
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1answer
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How to get licensing rights for US TV shows in countries like India?
How do I get licensing rights for streaming TV shows, which are broadcast in US, in India? Who do I contact? What is the correct procedure to follow? If possible, what are the relevant laws?
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335 views
There's a troll in my space - now what?
I've spent the last 3 months full-time building an alpha version of a web app, and developing a business plan for it. The alpha version is ready to launch. Recently I've stumbled upon the fact that ...
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Licensing a compiler which outputs code of a pre-existing programming language
This is a cross-post from stackoverflow; I was told you guys might be more knowlegable in this area...
I have an idea for a project which, ideally, I would like to eventually make money from.
...
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Is this called a “distributor” relationship or something else?
What should I call a business arrangement where I'll have the ability to buy raw material in bulk at wholesale prices, package and label the individual sellable units myself (and even create new ...
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Dissolve a void c corp in delaware
When the company is no longer doing business -
Is there going to be any consequences if a c corp (delaware) is in void status due to failure to file annual report? would this affect the personal ...
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4answers
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Is immigrating to the US really that hard for foreign entrepreneurs?
I keep reading about the high percentage of tech startups in the US that are founded by immigrant entrepreneurs (39% in California). I also keep reading about how hard immigrating to the US is for ...
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Starting a business - marketing/legal questions [closed]
I'm new to this part of SOE, but it's mission specific so:
I want to start marketing my IT skills independently in the US, and was wondering what are the various components involved in doing so?
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Question about downloading youtube clips to local pc [closed]
i have question about something that im not sure if its legal or not
logic tells me there is problem in creating application to download YouTube clips and convert them to mp3 for example .
this can ...
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1099 requirements for customers in middleman-type business
Note: I WILL be seeking information from a lawyer or accountant if I proceed but I want preliminary info here first.
I am considering a business that, for sake of example, is much like Guru.com or ...
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building an application at work, want to spin it into a business
I am building a custom sales portal at my place of employment, a large company. I would like to start a saas business that uses the same features I am building for the custom project at work. I want ...
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How legally binding is a pre-incorporated agreement?
Our startup was founded by 3 people and is in it's final stages of development. One of the founders wants to pull out but keep their 33%.
We have a one page document signed by the three of us ...
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Where is this law? [closed]
Is their a law for an employee to recive a raise every certin time of the year? Example( a person works for a company for 5 years, and out of those 5 years the person has only recived 2 raises out ...
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How to register a business and what resources do I need? [closed]
I am considering starting up a business. I want to do everything legally. So, where do I start? What type of costs are associated with beginning a business?
What do I need? What should I prepare ...
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Startup advice on business structure for an international call center
I'm Canadian and living in Canada and I have a professional friend who is American and living in the States. He and I want to start a call center. The operation will be centered around him for sales ...
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2answers
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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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Limiting liability of individual/small startup when selling software
If I make and sell some software (online if that matters), and say that software ends up causing some unexpected behavior (let's go extreme and say it deletes all data on the hard drive!). Am I liable ...
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How do I ensure any ToS dispute is handled in the country where I live?
I want any Terms of Service dispute to be handled in the country where I live, that is, in Swedish courts. Given this, which ToS snippet of the two below is the correct one? I'm guessing it's the ...
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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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Verbal Partnership Agreement Binding?
I have a provisional patent for a product that I have been developing. I had a meeting last weekend with two individuals and we have verbally agreed to form a partnership. The partner who will be ...
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How do I dissolve a C Corp?
I haven't used my C Corp, paid any taxes, or done the minutes. I haven't made a dollar or used the corp in any form. It was just a mistake opening the C Corp. I'm scared I have to pay the taxes from ...
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Web startup - possible legal issues with crawling content from other sites
We are building a website which will aggregate listings from various other websites. I would build my website to add extra search filters and other useful tools around this content that the other ...
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Partner leaving at an idea-stage start up
This question might sound dumb, but I'm at a complete loss of what to do.
My friend and I discussed starting a web site business years ago. For about a year and a half, we met every other weekend ...
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Starting a Money Services business in the US. What AML laws, etc, do I need to know? [closed]
I am interested in starting a "Money Services Business" in the US, and I know I need to comply with various AML laws, etc, but I'm not sure how to properly do my due diligence in identifying and ...
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Implementation partners-protecting source code
I have an existing SAAS platform and I am in the process of working with multiple implementation partners or vendors for some enhancements. How do I make sure my source code is protected? Some of ...
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Opening a simple website [closed]
Hi I just got an idea if opening my own website with out eny benefited or earning a money just for a tray to see if my disign is working and later maby I will transform in samting else at the moment ...
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Can a non-profit entity form a for-profit small business?
Can a non-profit organization with federal tax exempt under section 501(c) form a child commercial company? Of course, the small business is not the main theme of the mother company, just a ...
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US patent infringement by UK business?
Hoping I can find some help from those in the know!!
My wife has recently started a business here in the UK customizing shoes (with crystals, bows etc). On Thursday she received a email from a UK ...
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Which country to incorporate web startup in?
If we have a web startup originally targetting users from country A, but the majority of users end up to be from America, is it sufficient to have the company incorporated in country A?
Additionally ...
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Where and how can I ask for permission of product images?
About four months ago I asked a question about using product images (posters/cover art for movies, games, music, tv-shows and books) on a website without asking for permission.
Most of the answers ...
