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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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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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Fulfillment services in the US for international sellers? [closed]
I am the owner of a start-up in Egypt. I am planning to ship my products to one of the fulfillment centers in the US and use one of the fulfillment services to fulfill my orders within US. Do you know ...
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Director service contracts
The two of us are going to found a company and will work on all necessary tasks without taking pay at least for the first year. In this case, are we going to be Executive Directors? If so, will we ...
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Legal Agreement for Discounts
I have been talking to a few companies about offering an exclusive discount which I will be selling to some of my clients and I was curious what kind of legal agreement I should make with these ...
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What legal documents should I receive after incorporation of a private company?
Few months ago, I started to incorporate a private company in India. Due to legal process overheads, I outsourced the task to a reputed law company.
Now, whole process is almost finished. I want to ...
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What's the cost and paperwork of dissolving a Delaware corporation?
I have been working with my co-founder for the past year and recently we decided to part ways. However, about 2 months ago we incorporated our business in Delaware. Each of us is starting from scratch ...
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What is the name of this legal document?
I need to get a legal document to sign with our clients. But I'm not sure of the name, which makes it even harder to look for this. We are in the following situation. We have developed a system that ...
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Where to declare startup officers?
I co-founded a company recently, and we incorporated as a Delaware C-Corp.
We listed President/Secretary/etc when filing, but we simply decided CTO, CEO, and CFO. I've heard from others that what is ...
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Sample partnership/cofounder contract clause for force-out payment schedule
I'm altering a contract between myself and another individual. The contract defines clauses for forcing another partner out but does not define how percentage of ownership shall be handled. I.e. how ...
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Company Signing rights
What determines who has authority to sign a contract on behalf of the company?
What if a low level employee signs a contract in the name of the company, is it still binding?
What happens when there ...
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Terms and Conditions for a Meetup.com-style network?
I am about to open up registrations to my open-source meetup.com alternative, but am worried about the legal side.
What sort of things should I put in the Terms and Conditions, and do I need them to ...
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Signing agreements and contracts, what name to use? (California)
I am a videographer in San Diego, CA and I'm fairly new to working freelance. I've recently aquired a Fictitious Business Name (or DBA) under my first and middle name (my stage name when I was ...
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Contract for start-up employees and how to secure myself as the leader of the company
I'm a computer science student and have had an idea for a website for a while. Up until now, I haven't told anyone about it(even my family and girlfriend). Anyways, I decided to tell a friend of ...
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How do I make sure that my company owns my software?
This seems like a silly question, but I want to make sure that my interests are protected. I own a software development company, LLC in Virginia, and I have a product that I developed and have ...
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Legally required to provide hard-copy of receipts/invoices?
Just a quick question related to my start up.
Am I legally required to provide posted hard-copies of invoices and receipts to clients or are email PDFs sufficient (if I know they can receive and read ...
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Do I have to use real personal name when signing checks and/or legal documents for my LLC?
I am starting my own LLC internet-based service business (this will be just a one man shop - me). I would like to try to remain as personally anonymous as possible (not because of anything illegal, I ...
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How do I draft a letter of intent?
I have an idea I am working on that I believe will be useful. I have been told that verbally several times.
Rather than spend money on developing it to completion, I want my proposed ...
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What's the best way to get a legit TOS that will hold up?
We're looking for a TOS. We have some options, but I want to make sure it's done right.
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What is the default liability without a contract or clause?
Was just curious about this. With Intellectual Property, if there is no contract and you are a contractor, all the work you create is owned by the creator by default.
How does liability work though? ...
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Would you sign this liability clause?
I am going to get this checked by a lawyer, but I was wondering if people generally sign a clause like this (as the Contractor)?
"The Contractor indemnifies --Company-- for all liability ...
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Operating agreement vs Founding Agreement?
I am part of an L.L.C. and have heard a lot about operating agreements and founder's agreements. Can anyone clarify the differences between the two for an L.L.C.
Thanks!
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Can you lawfully take over a company if someone steals your idea and they sign a document prior to you revealing your idea
If you hire somebody to develop a product for you, and they take the credit and the idea and make a success out of it, is it possible to have them sign a document stating that if they steal the idea, ...
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Where can I get cheap and good legal advice?
I am looking for good/cheap legal advice for a web application my friend is building.
We will need to write a Term Of Service.
Do we really need a lawyer for that?
Are there templates out there?
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How do you sign someone on a document over the internet?
I want to sign a freelancer on a legal document, what is the best way to do this?
The document is something like ten pages with the last page containing the place to put the signature.
Is it good to ...
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convertible debt term sheets and legal advice
I've just registered my new startup with the government so now the company is officially incorporated! (yippee!)
I would now like to make a loan of about $5,000 to the company with my personal funds ...
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How should I structure my web start up considering one of my new partners is in Sweden?
I've started a website that has gained significant popularity. While we don't make any money yet I now require the help of another person. The individual that I have brought on lives in Sweden. I want ...
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Are US NDAs enforceable in other countries?
Are NDAs a safe thing to do when hiring out of the country? I'm hiring freelancers to do some mobile programming work, and they reside in France. They have, very kindly, signed the NDA I provided for ...
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Is it possible to start a business, but not have my name publicly associated with it?
This sounds ultra fishy, but it really is just for keeping a certain person from determining who is behind a company. I want to start a business with a business name, in any state, and not have my ...
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Legal constraints, responsibilities, and documentation required for prize based promotions
I'd like to run a prize based promotion in the USA -- and looking for suggestions on legal constraints, responsibilities, and documentation required to execute one.
Yes, I know there are lots of ...
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Where can I get a reliable writing service for EULA and licensing agreements?
I would like them to rewrite and create my own through the samples that I will copy from my competitor's website.
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Hiring a developer - Agreements and other formalities
I run a software startup based out of India.
To write a module of my application I am talking to a developer. To make things formal I wanted to sign an agreement.
The agreement should talk about ...
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Can you transfer ownership of code written by subcontractor in the US?
Suppose subcontractor A makes software for company B. Both are in the US.
Company B would like to retain the rights to any code created for the project and all data will reside on databases managed ...
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What key factors should be included in an exclusive international distributor agreement
We are a software company with an international partner in EU. They want to be exclusive as a distributor what should be the most important points we need in our agreement?
Our product is not in a ...
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Is there a guide on writing a Founder's Termination Agreement?
My co-founder wants to suspend our company instead of terminating it. Is there such a thing as a Founder's Suspension Agreement? If not, is there a guide on how to write a Founder's Termination ...
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Software distributor or Sales Agent which one makes more sense?
A company (which consist of one person) wants to sell my software (underour brand name and license agreement) but wants to do installation and 1st level support to the customer but doesn't want to ...
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Is there an online network of independent lawyers looking for one-off or quick work?
I'm looking for a network that matches lawyers to people looking to get a contract written or have a bit of legal work done. I know there are lots of freelancing sites and networks out there for logo ...
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When a reseller is in the middle who signs software license Agreement?
I am licensing my software to my software distributor reseller. My reseller wants to use my license agreement that should be signed between us and Licensee. Does that make sense?
If it does then how ...
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Maintaining LLC control with less than 50% ownership
Hopefully someone can gimme a hand. This is actually a question for a school project, but I've got some ideas kicking in my head for a startup, so I have good cause to know this for personal benefit ...
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Cheapest way to llc/merchant account?
My current startup(which consists of two) is going through incorporation, registering the merchant account and hooking it up with Braintree. I saw Jason L Baptiste's interview on Mixergy where he ...
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What do you call this type of legal agreement?
I would like to take on a partner company to resell my product and services in conjunction with their products and services however my software needs to be sold under their brand name and in some ...
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What is the difference between a reseller and distributor agreement?
I have a new partner that would like to resell our software under a white label or co-brand arrangement. They will also be handling some IT services surround the product but they will not be ...
