Questions

Can someone describe me how I should pay taxes being foreign, any basic guide? If I can't perceive any salary, how do I make money as a shareholder (not american)? More details: I'm in Mexico....

Incorporation Foreign Tax

asked Mar 21 '12 at 00:25

Alejandro
48 points

I have been working with a startup for 6 months. It is an advertising company for which there is a very heavy technology portion (I would say 50% of the company is based off of a mobile front-end,...

Software Technology Equity

asked Mar 14 '12 at 00:30

Phil
210 points

I am starting a new company with a long friend. He had the original idea but we both developed the idea and spent approx equal amount of funds to get it to the state of developing and launching...

Co-Founder Equity

asked Mar 21 '12 at 02:45

New Biz Guy
1 point

Since we already have a Legal LLC in the state of New Jersey, if I wanted to create a DBA would I need to get a new EIN number from the IRS or state-issued tax ID? Can I operate the DBA as its own...

DBA EIN

asked Mar 6 '12 at 05:37

Steve
11 points

I provided consultancy to a client to develop a product. Its been a couple of years now and I think there is a market to build that product for other clients. My question is how does it work. Is it...

Products

asked Mar 6 '12 at 07:52

User16779
11 points

Last month I was offered for an equity on a startup venture. It's an online store focus on selling customized toys. Their business models looks good and promising. But I just have few doubts and...

Equity Business Partnerships

asked Mar 6 '12 at 23:38

Pennf0lio
140 points

We are about to create an investment club. We have plans to buy stock, but we plan to invest over 50% of our shares monthly minimums on startups. Is this allowed since we are an LLC with multiple...

Investors SEC

asked Mar 7 '12 at 03:11

Constantine Hinds
11 points

I signed an NDA with a company, sent it back to them, but they haven't returned their signature (executed copy) back to me. This has been laying out their for 7 weeks. If I can't get them to send...

Legal NDA

asked Mar 7 '12 at 05:30

Joe
11 points

we released a very limited version of our product but it misses lots of functionality. Our income will be based on retailers and there are certain functionality they will be looking for. And of...

Strategy Features Planning

asked Mar 7 '12 at 08:30

Altuure
103 points

My scenario: I currently reside in CA. However, I will be locating to the state of Washington by the end of 2012. I (no other employees) am starting a 100% online service-based company, which will...

LLC Foreign Tax California

asked Mar 7 '12 at 10:53

Karen
11 points

I am starting my own LLC internet-based service business (this will be just a one man shop - me). I would like to try to remain as personally anonymous as possible (not because of anything illegal,...

Legal Legal Documents Name

asked Mar 7 '12 at 12:37

Kay
9 points

Just Started a business with some co-founders. How do I set up a system so that: When a co-founder is unwilling to work/cooperate with the rest of the team He/she is removed Thanks

Getting Started Co-Founder Team

asked Mar 7 '12 at 13:27

Tommy T
11 points

For example, say I form my LLC in Delaware and then decide several months down the road or maybe even a couple years down the road that I want to change the state to Florida and form my LLC in...

LLC Legal

asked Mar 7 '12 at 20:38

Kay
9 points

We are looking into best-practices to make our startup paperless from the get go. We are using dropbox of course, but what kind of tools would you recommend to scan, archive and share documents,...

Organization Document Management

asked Mar 8 '12 at 00:11

J7nn7k
108 points

I just released a small application (price 20 $) that is a sort of personal database that allows users to organize their Data( videos, images, files, text etc) following a layout defined by the...

Software

asked Mar 8 '12 at 00:54

Derek21
1 point

I am starting a mobile/web development outsourcing company. My development team (currently 4 developers) is moving to my starup from our prev. company, that worked in IT, but not in SD...

Getting Started Marketing Website

asked Mar 8 '12 at 04:26

Maxim V. Pavlov
217 points

I have a home business and clients will never need to come to my home in order for my business to operate. If I form my LLC in Delaware, I will have to register as a Foreign LLC for the state that...

LLC Foreign

asked Mar 8 '12 at 06:09

User16817
63 points

I have a company with a primary line of business of Software Development consulting. Now my wife wants to do some other work that would be completely unrelated. The question is can I simply add a...

DBA EIN

asked Mar 8 '12 at 14:40

Karlson
1,779 points

Are there any statistics that measure the success vs. failure rates of startups? The definition of success would be to attract first or second round of funding and failure would be to not get...

Funding

asked Mar 8 '12 at 17:38

Eminemence
108 points

I'm currently in the final testing stages of launching the release version of my website. Over the past couple days, I've been testing the entire site on IE7 as it's a browser I would like to be...

Website Web Dev

asked Mar 9 '12 at 03:17

Mike Christensen
183 points