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Create Offshore or local? [closed]
Being in the Internet age and all, and only buying and delivering services through the Internet:
Should I create a company local to where I live or in some offshore business friendly location?
And ...
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4answers
44 views
Length of Sign-up process- help?
I am starting a website consisting of info of local shops. now I am in a dilemma over the vendor sign-up process, I want to know should I do it one of the following ways -
1 - just ask for contact ...
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1answer
18 views
Splitting up the revenue [closed]
Can you guys tell me how to split the revenue?
I will be the director and hire 2 programmers with one artist. I am also going to try to partner up with a big company for advertisements. This is for a ...
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2answers
117 views
Should I use my company or website logo on my business card
I have a start-up company and currently working and promoting one website. Should I use the logo of the website or the logo of the company on my business card when I approach corporate clients to ...
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3answers
49 views
How should I calculate the number of hours of work during business traveling? [closed]
I am a contractor. The company that I am working needs me go to China for a week to 10 days. Currently, I only get hourly paid and have 40 hours per week.
My question is that whether I will get paid ...
2
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1answer
85 views
How much equity for a non-founding (but close) CTO
I am the founding President/CEO of a SaaS startup. I am the majority owner of the co with 60% of initial shares. I am a small biz guy who has worked with one other startup. I don't have a ton of ...
3
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1answer
65 views
Research if patent holder is a troll
I've recently discovered a patent for a product that's in the field of the product I'm working on. The patent itself has zero direct resemblance to the product I'm working on, but there are "early ...
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1answer
66 views
equity max of 23% split among “development” — a ripoff?
I've been working on a project with three other people: one is a developer, one is a manager type, and one is a sales type. I'm a developer. The two developers were invited into the project by the ...
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2answers
67 views
How to educate customers about importance of code quality?
I work as a remote developer for a small product development company. I always try to write code that is easily understandable, easy to manage, reuse and low on defects. I am quite a good tester as ...
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3answers
196 views
Is a 50/50 equity split without 50/50 control a doable and wise thing?
I've found a great partner for my second tech startup, and want to structure this one better than the first, which made money but eventually got ugly due to poor choices my younger self made along the ...
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0answers
37 views
Oversea Ownership - Immediate Concerns [closed]
I live in the United States and have a potential business partner in the United Kingdom.
If we were to incorporate a business in the U.K., what are some of the immediate legal/tax concerns I should ...
4
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3answers
117 views
Can I pay freelancer overseas who does not have a business account?
I'd like to work with a freelancer who is based overseas however he does not have an offical company and only a personal bank account.
If he invoices me is it acceptable to pay in to his personal ...
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1answer
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Need to re-file 83(b) forms in these 2 cases?
I filed 2 83(b) forms and am thinking that I may need to mail an additional copy of each one to the IRS to ensure that they're received and processed correctly:
(1) I mailed one that was to go ...
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0answers
138 views
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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2answers
70 views
Launching a tiny local online store
I have a small boring (Boring in a way that it's not an innovation or anything, but it's still exciting to me of course) idea.
So, what I want to do is to create a "Experience gifts shop".
So, we ...
0
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0answers
34 views
What kind of approach would give the best results in sales forecasting?
What kind of approach would give the best results in sales forecasting: a top down or bottom up approach? Does it differ for different sectors? For a start up with no business at all; if the product ...
0
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1answer
56 views
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 ...
3
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1answer
57 views
What should I do? Startup is moving to LA from Toronto [closed]
Currently I am the sole developer at the startup that I am working at. We are located in Toronto, things have been great, however, the CEO now wants to move to California. Understandable, the CEO ...
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0answers
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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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1answer
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How difficult (or how does one) apply for R&D Tax Credits (USA) for software development (new product)?
We are developing a new web-based product.
Looking for feedback from people who have applied for such tax credits.
What are the steps to applying for an R&D Tax Credit?
How difficult was it is ...
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3answers
149 views
Visitors are coming on the site but are not submitting questions [closed]
Here is my site http://starsQA.com, it's purpose is that it is has stars(actors,actresses,singers,authors) and that the fans(people who like the stars) send in questions for their fav star and they ...
2
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1answer
40 views
User reaction on different form of advertisements
I am planning of creating a free software in upcoming months. I also wants to monetize my advertise my software by different forms of advertisements. These are:
A) PPC advertisement on web site : ...
2
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2answers
62 views
Ending a partnership--how to handle the loan
I would like to end my parternship (50-50 ownership split) but continue to own and operate our Company.
My partner has loaned (formally, in our operating contract) the Company $10k. Along the way, ...
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0answers
23 views
Are there real life apps that use a swear jar monetization model? [closed]
I was watching a television show where a character created an app called "Forbid," with an interesting monetization model. The idea was that you put the phone number of someone you shouldn't call ...
2
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3answers
87 views
How do you decide between looking for investment or early adopters?
My MVP is ready to go (it's been 3 weeks actually). All this time I've been loosing sleep trying to decide if I should start looking for and organizing early adopters, or organizing a business plan ...
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2answers
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Who owns the Intellectual Property, Copyright and Patents created by Technical Co Founder?
I will be joining a new start-up as a technical partner. Other two partners are business administration role.
I will be the one who will program everything from scratch and build the new web based ...
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1answer
82 views
How do we earn real world cash from equity?
This question is about how does an owner of company who own n% equity of company as a technical co founder makes real world cash. This is not about regular share holder who buys share to make money. ...
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3answers
116 views
How much equity + salary should a Technical CoFounder get?
I am unable to decide how much should I get by reading the meta thread about equity hence I am asking it here.
I got offer as a technical partner in one web based start-up from two business guys with ...
1
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1answer
60 views
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 ...
0
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1answer
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What date ranges do fiscal quarters fall on and how are they calculated?
I thought the answer to this would be easy as I went online and looked them up, but apparently the fiscal calendar used changes based on which industry is using them. How do I find out the correct ...
0
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2answers
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Entrepreneur In-Waiting, valuing a start up business
After Years of having great business ideas and insight into the betting industry I have decided to bite the bullet and go ahead and start up my own business E-Commerce Business.
I have a number of ...
2
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1answer
84 views
Equity in a business driven by software?
I am completely new to negotiating equity, and I don't know where I stand with regards to pushing back on potential offers of equity based on a new project.
If anybody could give me their view on my ...
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Building a B2B platform [closed]
My question is, what kind of "developer" or "programmer" would i need to find, that could help me build a similar platform to that of amazon, with their third party sellers selling to customers? Also ...
2
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1answer
125 views
how secure is sharing business idea for investment
I've a simple idea which I believe will definitely yield good returns.
Now how I can share such simple idea with multiple potential investors. I fear they may say no to me but implement my idea on ...
5
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3answers
127 views
How to market mobile apps?
I've been a developer at startups before, but I've never been involved in marketing. I'm now trying to sell a few of my own mobile apps, and I'm hitting a brick wall. Two months ago I released an ...
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1answer
75 views
is it bad idea to starting up on your own? [closed]
(actually the title may be misleading, but couldn't find better one)
I am planning for a start-up soon. I prefer to start it up all alone, but i have heard people saying start-up is a too-much an ...
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1answer
41 views
How to start a collaborative platform [closed]
I want to start a website, but its success depends on users.
So how can I launch it, knowing that without content, there are no users, and without users, there is no content ?
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0answers
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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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3answers
213 views
Did I Make A Mistake On A 60-40 Deal?
I am a software engineer, blogger, marketer and upcoming entrepreneur. I just programmed an app to help corporate sites in marketing. I did all that alone, launched it and started getting clients. I ...
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2answers
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Two Separate Solutions or One
I am looking to offer a software solution which can target public and private audiences. By public, I mean that it can used for personal use. By private, I mean that it can used by companies. There ...
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3answers
193 views
How to convince my customers that my app is not a scam?
I wrote an app that works on an auction site by doing dynamic bidding on the user's behalf given his login details, i.e. manages his auctions for him automatically. The user not only gets better deals ...
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0answers
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Next Steps…Web/Phone App idea [closed]
My partner and I have an idea for a web and phone application that we think would do really well. We've thought through what it would do, how it would function, and have built examples of how it would ...
2
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1answer
79 views
Have good MVP, need capital to grow, new to getting funding
We have what we believe is a pretty solid MVP for a enterprise software product. Without much advertising, we've had people find our website and purchase and use the product, and the initial feedback ...
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5answers
127 views
how important is user interface for a web startup
I am writing a new website. The functionality works fine but the user-interface is decent but nothing catchy (as my design and css skills are poor)
It is quite clear than even an average web designer ...
4
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2answers
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Payment methods and conditions for fresh startup
I am an Interface designer and a startup asked me to work with them. As of now they are only two people and do not have a budget, so they would offer a share in the company.
I would be fine in ...
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2answers
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B2B SAAS business. Enterprise customers keep asking to accept their terms agreements
My business is a B2B SaaS business that I've been running for the last two years. It is self-provisioning, self-service, subscription-based service charged to customers credit cards. Monthly ...
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1answer
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LLC Require EIN?
I have an LLC that will be a passthru entity (sole owner).
Is such an entity required to have an EIN to do business?
If not, how would you get banking accounts, LoC, etc without an EIN to legally ...
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0answers
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How to simplify my quickbooks items list
I am using Quickbooks to handle invoicing, purchasing, sales, etc. and so, to facilitate all these processes, I have an 'Items' list; I know, pretty standard stuff, right? Well, here's my problem, ...
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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 ...
4
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1answer
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I was fired and the company is planning on selling immediately after my shares expire
I had an employment agreement with a company that stated my equity (based on shares vesting over a 4-year period) would continue to be honored until up to 120 days after my departing the company. I ...
