Questions

We have a web hosting startup and plan to accept international business. With regards to paying VAT is that still a responsibility for any customer in the EU? We currently have no assets or...

VAT Global Customers

asked Mar 15 '12 at 00:27

Marco Ceppi
126 points

I'm focusing on direct sales at software and mobile outsourcing company, located in Eastern Europe. Our management is often traveling around Europe to meet with clients. I was wondering what...

Marketing Outsourcing Promotional Material

asked Mar 22 '12 at 00:47

Alena
6 points

We tend to think that the fair value of a work is the price of it, but it's hard to appreciate. As a web startup, what do you think is the best strategy, keep the pay a little too less to keep the...

Employees Salary Web Dev Payroll

asked Mar 22 '12 at 01:12

Hartator
116 points

My company is Canadian and I'm planning to purchase a VPS account for my business with a Dallas,TX based company. But I'm being told by a friend that this may be a problem for the following...

Legal Privacy

asked Mar 15 '12 at 05:01

Ray
215 points

I am in talk with another company for developing a software for them. They require a Non-Disclosure agreement. Should I ask to specify an expiry date for the NDA? Or does it apply to my entire...

NDA Agreements

asked Mar 22 '12 at 02:12

Cnu
123 points

I'm a web developer who has been a freelancer for a few years. I just now started a llc and I'm being told by some staffing companies that I need a 1 million dollar business insurance to work with...

Insurance

asked Mar 22 '12 at 02:32

Digital Cake
106 points

My LLC was formed as of yesterday. I am now in the process of applying for an EIN through the IRS. The application asks for my business start date. I am an online business, and have not technically...

Getting Started LLC EIN

asked Mar 15 '12 at 08:11

User16817
63 points

Suppose you run a small dev shop with 4 people (all software developers) and have been doing dev work for few clients. For one of these clients the dev shop dedicates about 70% of the time on...

Valuation

asked Mar 15 '12 at 08:26

Steven
21 points

We are looking to start up a business and are in a different situation then I have been in before. I will be looking at financing the money that starts the business. I have one partner that will...

Equity Seed Funding

asked Mar 15 '12 at 09:46

Jim
1 point

When converting from an LLC to a C Corp, can we use the same EIN for the C Corp?

Tax IRS EIN

asked Mar 15 '12 at 11:11

Jon
1 point

I was looking at kickstarter to get some funding for a possible business venture. Kickstarter funding would cover entity filing fees and other costs or licenses and materials. I have seen some...

Funding Equity Crowdsourcing

asked Mar 15 '12 at 12:35

Cqm
11 points

I founded a startup in late 2008, as a sole proprietorship LLC. I was the only member in the LLC. It stayed that way until August of 2011, less than a year ago, when I added a minority partner to...

LLC Capital Gains Capital

asked Mar 22 '12 at 04:26

Arbingersys
11 points

I work with contractors often, and of course go the W-9 + 1099 route with US-based folks. I'll be hiring a handful of part-time non-US contract developers soon (one in Brazil, one in Switzerland)....

Tax Contractor

asked Mar 15 '12 at 13:30

Bmoeskau
356 points

Churn is a nice metric to learn a lot more about your business. But it only works if there is a direct correlation between subscribed users and revenue. How to calculate churn on a product where...

Metrics

asked Mar 22 '12 at 07:24

Jan P.
106 points

After two years of development, our start-up is pre-beta and in an incubator. We have the chance to pitch on This Week in Startups, but I am concerned about too much publicity from potential...

Pitch Publishing

asked Mar 15 '12 at 15:55

Laramie
192 points

We are a UK-based web start-up and as far as I know it is not possible to patent software in the UK or EU (IMHO a good thing). But we would like to protect ourselves in the US by making a...

Patent Provisional Patent

asked Mar 15 '12 at 20:59

Noel Abrahams
111 points

I'm participating in some business funding and recently we've faced a severe problem. The question is quite simple: how do we share profit, so that no one would be left behind? So, there's three...

Business Profit Sharing Money Loss Sharing

asked Mar 22 '12 at 19:12

Denys S.
166 points

I've been working for large private software company (the last round of investment was very, very large) and my offer letter told me I would receive X number of options as long as the board...

Legal Ethics Stock Options

asked Mar 16 '12 at 00:54

Rox0r
125 points

I have a great idea for a company name, but it requires the semicolon character ; in order to work. Do you think it would be possible to have a semicolon in the company name? I know...

Company Branding Trademark Name

asked Mar 16 '12 at 01:07

Eero Heikkinen
118 points

I'm a US citizen living abroad. I already have a C corporation (Delaware) for which the initial paperwork (Certificate of Incorporation, Bylaws, etc.) have been done. I also have an EIN for the...

Bank Account

asked Mar 16 '12 at 01:15

Patrick Kenny
277 points