Questions

Myself and two others have founded a start up and would like to incorporate. There are several sites that set up and file online (LegalZoom being one example), and I was wondering if in early...

Contract Incorporation Online Lawyer

asked May 15 '12 at 03:26

Zugwalt
135 points

I'm a 3d software developer working for a manufacturing company on industrial visualization software programs. In the future, I wish to develop 2d/3d games, mapping applications during my free...

Legal Intellectual Property Conflict Of Interest

asked May 15 '12 at 04:01

User703047
31 points

Consider a common situation. A patent troll owning US patents finds a fresh target, decides to threaten it, his lawyer looks up the company address and surprise! it's not in the US. Let's say it...

Patent

asked May 15 '12 at 07:53

Borr
21 points

I am doing a Customer Discovery phase (as per Customer Development model by Steven G. Blank). In this step I need to have to identify the following: The customer has a problem. The customer...

Customers Statistics Survey

asked May 15 '12 at 08:05

Mvbl Fst
144 points

Is it possible to get a celebrity to endorse your start-up without upfront compensation and without guarantee of future compensation? I am not talking about doing any sort of work. I'm talking...

Advertising Support

asked May 15 '12 at 08:17

Mvbl Fst
144 points

My associate and I are doing a website and we have absolutely no cash. Altough, we made a demo, "a prototype" of our website. Would that demo and a solid pitch/business plan convince an angel...

Angel Investors Bootstrap

asked May 15 '12 at 21:24

Younès
120 points

I have invested a few years and thousands of dollars into a startup. I have a few thousand users. Unfortunately, little revenue. I believe the revenue potential is real, and I believe it is there....

Selling

asked May 15 '12 at 23:30

User70192
158 points

Our company develops a Windows based desktop software product (photo and media document management software for small teams). The first product version will be free of charge. The next major...

Promotion Desktop

asked May 15 '12 at 23:59

Murat
121 points

Ten years ago I formed an S-Corp in Maryland with myself as the sole shareholder and director. Unfortunately I didn't have a handle on making all the required tax filings and payments, and the...

Incorporation Corporate Structure Corporation Corporate Legal Entity

asked May 16 '12 at 08:26

Maryland Business Owner
6 points

Possible Duplicate: How to find potential co-founders for a startup? I'm a developer with about 25 years of experience under my belt. Currently working on P2P programming and Ruby on Rails....

Co-Founder Technical

asked May 16 '12 at 09:31

Karan
1 point

Last year, while living in Ohio, I incorporated a sole-proprietor LLC, with myself as the only agent. I have now moved to California. I don't want to dissolve my Ohio LLC and re-incorporate in...

LLC

asked May 16 '12 at 12:30

Max Cantor
106 points

I have a project on the table with a business model that involves creating a web service to streamline all the best pieces of internet marketing into one platform. Full details need to be kept...

Getting Started Venture Capital Investors Strategic Investment

asked May 17 '12 at 00:28

Chad
32 points

Suppose a US citizen becomes a member of a UK LLP, along with 2 other foreigners (non-US citizens). Assume each one of the three has a 33.3% share in the UK LLP. The LLP starts working, and has a...

UK Tax International USA

asked May 17 '12 at 00:59

User3262424
107 points

I am looking at modifying a wireless scale that can transmit its gathered information wirelessly. There are plenty of patented products out there that do this, I am looking for a 'blank template'...

Getting Started Products Physical Product

asked May 17 '12 at 01:41

Bungdaddy
103 points

It takes an investor with a special kind of appetite to invest in software. And in my research, I have found that there are very few with that type of interest. I have a business model for an...

Saas Internet Marketing Strategic Investment

asked May 17 '12 at 02:40

Chad
32 points

We have an idea and a proof of concept, the idea is pretty specific to stealthy debuggin and binary code analysis . The problem is that we are pure technical guys, we don't know the market and...

Getting Started Market Market Research

asked May 17 '12 at 04:39

Dot Dot
6 points

My brother-in-law in India wants to open(register) an IT company in US. Is that possible? How? And if now, then I'm here in US with a student visa. Can I register an IT company in USA and help...

IT Company Business USA Register

asked May 18 '12 at 04:19

Jigar Brahmbhatt
11 points

I'm trying to understand how VAT responsibilities are handled by payment processors like FastSpring and SWReg. From the HMRC website : What is VAT? VAT is a tax that's charged on most business...

Payments VAT

asked May 18 '12 at 05:40

Paul Stovell
204 points

Situation I am in the process of deciding which type of taxation to choose for my LLC. Up until this point I was leaning towards Partnership taxation because that is what LLC For Dummies was...

Getting Started LLC Payments Partnership Tax Structure

asked May 18 '12 at 07:09

Viriato
144 points

I heard from someone that if you have a S Corp and you don't make any profit for two years, then you can get penalized for it. Is this true?

Corporation

asked May 1 '12 at 02:16

Vakey
8 points