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User Registration forms - user name or email address?
I would like as simple as possible a registration and login process. Should I use a username or an email address as the key identifier during the login? (Presumably the user db might also a user ...
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What are basic steps to creating a simple marketing strategy for a small startup?
I have started a small startup online business. I need to drive traffic to the site and create new users - a classic "inbound marketing" problem. I have seen that people have asked similar questions ...
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Should give 20% of my start-up away to a high profile UX academic?
I'm in the process of registering a company for my start up. I've been developing the concept 60 hours a week for the past 6 months. I've attracted the interest of a high profile UX academic that ...
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Login with Google or Facebook on a B2B website - visitor perception
Reducing the barriers to using a website is often a key goal for an eCommerce business.
One way of reducing the barrier to the whole 'register/sign up' process and the subsequent
'logging in with yet ...
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What are the ways to sell desktop applications
I'm figuring the ways to sell software online. I want a service that is easy to use. PayPal is good, but I'm not sure if most of the people have PayPal. Also Fortumo is a good service, it works in ...
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How to reduce the number of users who don't complete the registration process?
I run a dating site, and I'm trying to reduce the number of users who start the registration process but do not complete it. Our registration process is as follows:
User enters their email address ...
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What are the steps needed for registering/startup a software company?
I have been working fulltime w/o pay developing my iPhone app, now it's closing to the release time and I think it's about the time start my own company. I wonder if anyone can provide some detailed ...
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UK Tax for Online Startup Software Company
I currently work full time for a private company and am considering on starting up my own online software company by forming a private limited company. I had a few questions:
I've noticed that the ...
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Choosing between a California corporation and a NY corporation
Are there any advantages to establishing a corporation in California as opposed to NY? The minimum taxes ($800) every year that need to be paid in California is a bit of a turn off. Are there any good ...
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Whats my next step?
My name is Stephen. This is my first time at your site so I'll explain where I'm at with my product and hopefully I can get a little feedback on what you might think is the best "next step".
1.) Had ...
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Signup method for very early stage application?
Im working on a saas web application, ive got what I think is a minimal viable product and im now ready to user test it.
The question I have is not so much about finding early stage users but about ...
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What is the difference between company name, brand and trademark?
I have some ideas that I plans to execute later. But for the moment, I want to "secure" the name, logo etc. of the business. I for one cannot seem to figure out the difference between the company ...
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How to determine share value for a new company?
I'm in the process of setting up a company, and am trying to figure out what numbers to put in the Share Structure Table in the company registration form (download here).
I will be the sole Director ...
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Can an Indian promoter/founder/entrepreneur register his business and get it incorporated in the US?
What is the US law that deals with regulations for incorporated entities? In India, we have the Indian Companies Act, 1956.
I am an entrepreneur. I want to know if I can register my business as a ...
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Register options for a new social media application
We're making a different approached and kinda niche web and mobile project and planning to release our private beta release at the end of January.
But I'm confused about our user register strategy.. ...
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Incorporating: Classify “Doing business in”?
I've been looking into incorporating with a partner, and we're both in different states, and obviously looking over Delaware's incorporation laws.
With incorporation, each state says that you need to ...
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When must I turn my business idea into a formal Company?
I'm a programmer, I have an idea, I know how to implement it, it will be a website, and that site will be my business.
My question is very basic: where in timeline must I register my business as an ...
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Registrations for E-Retail business in USA
We plan to start e-retail (online retail business of organic products) in USA and would like to know the following:
- Do we need to take license to start online business?
- Any registration required?
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non-resident Online Business setup
I live in New Zealand and I am looking to start an online website sourcing and selling products within the USA via drop-shipping methods. This part of the process is underway. However, I understand I ...
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Florida LLC Filing Address for Apartment Renter
I live in an apartment in Florida and I have a PO Box. My lease contract prevents me from registering a business as the physical address.
I was going to use my PO Box but the registration form says ...
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“Foreign” registration — what is the threshold?
At what point do I have to register my company in another state as a "foreign" company?
I own a NH LLC. If I travel to VT to demo a product for a customer, does that rise to the level of doing ...
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Determining “Critical Mass” for a Web Application
I'm in the process of building a web application that will need a healthy user base from day one to be successful (similar to a stackexchange site).
I'm already taking signups but I'm curious how ...
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Register company in UK or France for French internet startup
I am a UK based web developer currently building a French language affiliate marketing website to be hosted in France. My business partners are French and I am trying to decide whether my business ...
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What should happen first: File for the Business or Find a Place to do Business?
The question came to mind when I went to file for the business which will be an LLC in Florida. One of the questions that came up was the address in which I will be conducting business. On the other ...
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Which to show first: login or register screen or both?
I have a site for which I am working to improve user onboarding.
What happens now is that when a user does some action that requires him to be logged in, I make a jQuery popup come up telling him to ...
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Should I be weary of naming my business something that may already be registered in the US?
We're based in Canada and are in the process of naming our new business for registration in Canada. We're going to be developing mobile apps.
However, we've run into some issues. The name we decided ...
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Is it mandatory to get a small-online-startup-business registered in USA?
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Its gonna be a one man show.
The person running the business already has a dayjob elsewhere. I guess he's a waiter and I am not sure if he has an EIN.
He would like to avoid registrations ...
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What information to gather when registering users
We all know that it's really important for an impatient SaaS user to not make them spend too much time filling forms. Having said that there maybe some important fields that needs to be gathered ...
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Web App Business Registration in Canada
I'm getting close to completing my web application and I'd like to start dealing with the business aspects of it (I'm a programmer first and foremost!)
I need to register my business name in Canada. ...
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Is the Secretary of State the general office, state to state, for registering a company?
All varying acronyms of incorporation aside, what exceptions (i.e. particular states) are there to the assumption that from state to state, if I need to register my company (for whatever particular ...
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3 links submits on forums, 300 signups, is it ok?
Basically, when you launch a startup, what's the sign whether you have a diamond in your hands or piece of... you know... ? I mean, basing on first days dynamic.
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Startup Questions
I am working for simple desktop based application (windows). I would like to launch this application for free first and based on the customer response and for new features, I have plan to charge for ...
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I'm considering moving out of state — what costs will I incurr if I take my LLC with me?
I have a LLC registered in NJ, and am thinking of moving out of state. What costs will I incur transferring the LLC to another state (if that is possible)? Will I have to dissolve the LLC in NJ and ...
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How should I register my business
My friend and I have been working as independent energy consultants for about a year now and we are planning to incorporate to be able to extend our services. We both got our PhDs last year and we ...
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Regular signup / sigunp with OpenID / signup with FacebookConnect or Twitter, which one is better for entertainment website?
We have entertainment website. Users geo is 50% USA/Canada, 30% Europe, 10% Asia, 10% Other.
How do you think which signup form will work best? Regular signup / OpenId / FacebookConnect+Twitter? Maybe ...
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What are the exact 2012 costs and requirements of registering an LLC in Nevada?
Myself and a friend run a website.
We want to register as a Limited Liability Company in Nevada for the tax benefits. It's just us two that work on the site. This is a unique situation, though. He ...
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Starting a company only to move to a different Province?
I was going to register my business in Ontario, but may be moving to BC in the next 4 months. Should I even bother? Will my registeration keep?
I am guessing I can't write off items (I need a few ...
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Domain registration in the US for foreign domain
As is obvious I am located in the US but my customers are in the former Soviet Republics. So I am looking to register a domain localized for them.
For example most web hosting providers in the US ...
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Do I need to register in multiple countries for multi-national startup?
I want to launch a multi-national startup. Do I need to reach every target country for legal formalities? Or, is there an international body which could take care of that?
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Where to Register a Social Network Start-Up
I have an e-commerce site and the company is registered in Florida, US. I'm located in Israel, and I have an idea to create a social network site. My main question is which of the following options is ...
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LLC in Maryland or Massachusetts?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of starting a LLC in Massachusetts, versus Maryland? It's a lot more expensive to file annual reports and get a license to operate an LLC in Massachusetts ...
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Whose laws should my business adhere to; where is the boundary?
I would like to know which country's laws I must abide by when conducting online business.
Let's say I want to sell VPNs and here in the UK, this was illegal. In Holland this is legal however (as an ...
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Interstate commerce business registration requirements
What states in the United States, if any, require business registration to solicitate business and collect revenue?
In this scenario, the business has no opperations in the state the business is ...
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What is the minimum I have to do to protect my site name?
I've been running a niche dating site for the last year or so that has done pretty well. I have been running it without any legal structure, registration, etc. Basically I don't exist on paper.
I ...
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Trademark, Copyright and Registrations for Companies, Products and Logos
Let's say we have a company called ParentCompany (www.parentcompany.com)
That company has 3 products called P1, P2 and P3 (www.p1.com, www.p2.com, and www.p3.com)
The company and each of its ...
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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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Time taken to Register a company name in india [closed]
I have applied for registering my textile shop name through an agency on 10-10-2010. But till now i haven't got it done. whenever i ask they say my number has not came so i have to wait may be another ...
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What steps should be taken when opening office of the company in US? [closed]
My company is based outside USA, but for sure we need to have a (representative) office on the territory Of US to have sales team.
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Worldwide Ecommerce From One Location: What requirements are there from other states and countries?
Details: I plan to sell downloadable information through passive search-engine ads, which could end up anywhere. I am hoping that US copyrights will be sufficient (can I do better?).
My unbacked ...
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Where should one register a company?
I'm not a US citizen but planning to start an international business. So I'm wondering if there's a benefit/profit/perspective of registering a company in a different country than mine, like US, for ...
