Hot answers tagged registration
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20% sounds like way too much, considering what you are getting in exchange is unclear. I'd give 20% to someone who is my co-founder and will take a very active role in running the company.
If you want, give 20% with vesting over 4 years. So most likely, you'll get rid of this non-performing academic and all they'll have is 5% (still too much in my opinion).
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The main thing about registration completion is that the user needs to care. ;)
Without having more information about your specific registration process, here are some things you can do:
Reduce the likelihood that your confirmation email goes to the users spam folder
Use Litmus to make sure your email content will pass spam
filters
Set up SPF records to ...
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For a US B2B site, I'd focus on sign-in with LinkedIn, Salesforce, Google Apps, and Plaxo first. Then Facebook later on, if at all, and probably never "open" OpenID. Not sure how, or if the UK changes that.
Another way to think about this is in terms of cost to deploy: LinkedIn and Plaxo are both OAuth 1 (Salesforce also has an older OAuth1 approach), ...
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Your personal income is separate from your company's revenue. You and your company are separate legal entities.
The VAT threshold applies to your company (self-employed traders also have to consider VAT but that doesn't appear to be relevant in your situation if your other job is not self-employment).
You are only obliged to register for VAT if you reach ...
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You do not need a company to sell iPhone apps. Apple allows individuals to sell apps in the app store. They send you a check, tell the IRS they sent you a check and you pay taxes on that revenue.
When I was in your situation few years back (selling Palm apps) I registered as DBA (Doing Business As i.e. Sole Proprietor) because all I wanted was to sell my ...
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Either #1 or #2 sound like they could be a good approach for what you want to accomplish. Which choice is ultimately better will depend on different factors, but hopefully I can help in that regard. (I'm assuming your early adoption phase is mostly for product quality, as opposed to marketing—that line gets blurred so often with web applications.)
Direct, ...
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Don't give anything away if you don't know what you're getting in return. General smoozing without time commitment does not sound concrete enough to me. Either try to get him to commit to a certain activity, or (even better) have them pay for your stock. If they are willing to put their money where their mouth is, you know that they are really interested. ...
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You will have a very hard time reaching critical mass through subscriptions, unless your product is a cure for cancer.
Real world numbers are a lot worse than your calculations. Based on Mailchimp newsletter statistics, 30% is the group that will at least open your beta invite email. Others won't even do that. Typically not more than 40% out of that 30% are ...
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I prefer username, don't make me type my full email address please! In the registration process you should ask for the email address to make sure your users can reset their password/username if needed. I usually have the same username for many different sites but different email addresses, depending on what type of site it is.
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...are there any good reasons to
having a Corporation established in
California apart from being a resident?
Yes. If you register a company in a state other than your home state, you will still have to register your company in your home state as a foreign entity (assuming you will be doing business in your home state). This means that you will end ...
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In my opinion, for getting out there and doing the 'smoozing startup activities', the best person for the job is you: the founder himself. Who better knows your startup and its goals, and who else best stands to personally benefit the most from these activities other than you?
Regarding UX, as a designer, I've always been skeptical of people who label ...
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In the USA:
If you register a trademark, you don't necessarily have to register the company name, although it is normally done. A product or service name is likely to be different from the company name.
A trademark can be for the name of a product, a company name, a logo, or some combination of these.
A trademark protects you from other people using marks ...
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From reading your question and the comment you made on another answer it seems like you're looking for either a completely licensing + payment solutions or you're looking for a payment solution that works with your own home-made licensing. I'll cover both options.
Licensing + Payment processor
I'm founder of the company that makes LimeLM -- a licensing ...
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In my experience, governments aren't always known for being the most flexible entities. Unlike the startup, where rules haven't yet been formed, governments have a long history of bureaucracy, and the people who work in these organizations may not be in positions to overlook certain oversights once you've been introduced to their legal or criminal systems.
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It may be interesting to note that 37signals recently phased out their use of Open ID. They offer some major B2B apps and are known as forward thinkers so to reverse themselves on something like that is very noteworthy indeed.
All B2B is not the same of course. @Sam D accurately notes that SMB may gravitate toward Facebook whereas larger companies to ...
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Though I voted for Yuri, and this isn't meant to contradict his answer. Google, LinkedIn and Salesforce login options should be #1.
However I would like to add that there are many smaller businesses that use Facebook strictly for business (and they usually have other personal accounts as well). You are also promoting an easy sign in / registration option ...
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When you read Inbound Marketing, you'll learn it has five steps: creating remarkable content, optimizing it for search, promoting through social media, converting visitors to customers and analyzing everything. The first three are designed to drive traffic to the "top of the funnel" (ToFu) while the last two concentrate on obtaining and improving results in ...
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It's wildly dependent on what you plan to do. If this involves doing activities which must be sanctioned/inspected/certified/approved like health, food, finances, military or something else then it may be required for you to get an official presence in some countries. If it's something "neutral" like this Q&A site, then you don't need to register ...
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If you do any business in California, you will have to pay the $800 minimum franchise tax regardless of where you incorporate. Note that Corporations do have a first year exemption from that minimum franchise tax. LLCs do not.
For NY, there is an expensive newspaper publication requirement, typically $500-$1000+ depending on which county your primary office ...
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One would need to know which state you are considering, because each state has its own definition. For example, in CA (where I practice) the definition of "doing business" is "entering into repeated and successive transactions of its business in this state, other than interstate or foreign commerce". (This issue is discussed in "Doing Business in CA? Be Sure ...
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I'm speaking from experience with multiple, multiple hosting providers, including GoDaddy. I originally started everything GoDaddy. I mainly found them because they were probably the first name I found when I searched for a hosting provider, and they are by far the largest. Even though they are the largest, that doesn't mean they are the best. I have been a ...
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I would suggest you use username as key identifier as you need to allow for users to change their email address.
You may consider also asking for (and verifying) an email address during registration incase the user forgets their password. ie. on the forget password form allow the user to enter a username or email.
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There are many requirements which may apply when you create a business, and they will vary from state to state.
There is a comprehensive list, including foreign countries. (Scroll down a bit to see the state-by-state directions for the United States).
However, every state has different rules about starting a business and what forms of registration are ...
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for small operation and beginning stage you can accept payment on your personal social security ID. The question, is the company or person hiring you willing to deal at a personal level. The company will then just send you a 1099 at the end of the year (usually above $600)
Yes, you can start without registration but think about registration asap.
All your ...
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Can an Indian promoter/founder/entrepreneur register his business and get it incorporated in the US?
Yes, it is possible to do what you want to do - I have helped ~30 foreign companies and entrepreneurs, from a variety of countries (including India), through the process.
In the U.S., corporations are formed pursuant to state, rather than federal, laws.
I recommend that you use my blog's Foreign Countries page ...
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On the site itself, when it's about user generated content, the critical mass chicken-egg problem always exists, and you will have to work very hard manually to produce content yourself to get started. You'll have to create accounts and start generating valuable content with them. You can't depend on friends with this.
Generally, the best way to address the ...
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There are several payment providers like:
FastSpring
CleverBridge
ShareIt
They usually handle all the pain of different payment types, serial number distribution and so on for you and you never have to store customer data which is important in itself.
I found FastSpring very transparent, easy to use and they provided good customer support so far.
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Steven here from FastSpring.
I just wanted to reach out and let you know that we accept multiple payment options including PayPal and all major credit cards, and we support a wide range of currencies.
We also support a variety of ways to distribute license keys. If you're looking for a do-it-yourself solution, it's possible we could call your database ...
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Simple answer, yes consult a lawyer.
More complex answer, in the US (and elsewhere) trademarks are meant to prevent consumer confusion. Whether you will face, or prevail in, a lawsuit depends on how close the names are to each other and the markets that the names are being used in. For example, your might create software and the other person with the ...
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