Questions

Our startup was founded by 3 people and is in it's final stages of development. One of the founders wants to pull out but keep their 33%. We have a one page document signed by the three of us...

Equity Legal

asked Mar 30 '13 at 20:41

Rangerrick337
13 points

I should state at the outset that I am a US Citizen, but simply living abroad in a country where starting a business is much more complicated. I have recently created a website that I would like to...

Monetization Corporate Structure Bank Account

asked Mar 30 '13 at 21:34

Nate
1 point

I would like to start a hotel over the next few years. I know I will need a lot of capital to do so. I am working on getting the capital right now but I would like to know what a realistic amount...

Startup Costs Investment Loan Cost Estimation Franchise

asked Mar 31 '13 at 06:06

Makai
11 points

I am building a custom sales portal at my place of employment, a large company. I would like to start a saas business that uses the same features I am building for the custom project at work. I...

Legal Saas Intellectual Property

asked Mar 31 '13 at 10:36

Jack Smorenson
6 points

I have a unique problem that I was hoping to get some clarity on. The Co-Founder of our business (in Canada) wants to end the business and get out. The company has been operating for 3 years and...

Co-Founder Incorporation Entrepreneurs Canada Partnerships

asked Mar 31 '13 at 15:21

Ben
23 points

Last year around august, I joined an eCommerce start-up(handicraft items) as the technical head. Though, the company was online for more than 4 months prior to me. The website look and feel was...

Sales Ecommerce

asked Mar 31 '13 at 21:43

Pankaj Upadhyay
156 points

Note: I WILL be seeking information from a lawyer or accountant if I proceed but I want preliminary info here first. I am considering a business that, for sake of example, is much like Guru.com or...

Payments Legal Tax Saas USA

asked Apr 1 '13 at 08:05

User478798
3 points

My question concerns the tax implications of distributing profits, if and when the hard work pays off. In my case all of the expenses and income have flowed through my business account (S...

USA Corporation Profit Sharing

asked Apr 1 '13 at 08:43

Robotronic
1 point

Just found out that the city we're in raised the sales tax again, the second time this year. Since we didn't know about the change, we've been charging our customers the lower rate for some time...

Tax

asked Apr 2 '13 at 10:18

Joe
113 points

I have been in the retail industry for over 14 years. I pitched an idea to an old friend of mine to open a mattress store about two years ago. We opened the company as an LLC. I had all the...

LLC Retail

asked Apr 3 '13 at 10:26

Jay
6 points

My associates and I own a services business. To improve efficiency we started to developed own software two years ago. The software we developed seems to be very effective and time-saving for us...

Software Equity Stock Options Software Licensing Stocks

asked Apr 3 '13 at 22:57

Gauthier
1 point

I am providing a quote for wireless service to a client. Without getting too technical, suffice it to say that their site will need a computer to perform this service. The interesting thing to note...

Getting Started Quote Purchasing

asked Apr 4 '13 at 04:26

Md Moore313
290 points

For that past few months, I've been building a product that targets a specific niche. The kind of product I have been building hasn't been around the marketplace, and I knew there is a...

Strategy Competition Exit Strategy

asked Mar 7 '13 at 06:34

K2x L
111 points

I know this question has been asked many times on many places, however I wasn't able to get straight forward answer except for, "go to Attorney". Sure, I will (go), however I am just doing papers...

EIN

asked Mar 22 '13 at 05:04

Kedar
1 point

I am on F1 visa. I'm done with my masters and am on my OPT. Can I be a partner in an LLC? What about when I go on H1B. I'm looking to startup in Texas & California both. I tried to look for...

Co-Founder LLC Visa USA

asked Mar 7 '13 at 10:10

Diablo Sharma
28 points

If I submitted a patent under my personal name and it was abandoned, can I later resubmit or rather submit it under my company name?

Incorporation Business Intellectual Property

asked Mar 7 '13 at 11:07

Sdm
6 points

I'm building a Saas B2B startup and I'm wondering what kind of multiples are used to estimate future exit valuations. Price/earning ratio, price/sales ratio? For instance, if I plan to build a...

Valuation

asked Mar 7 '13 at 11:47

Frenchie
4,166 points

I am starting an electronic rental business. Legally, am I allowed to put advertisements in print and web for my business that feature a picture of the electronic and name saying that I rent these...

Advertising Business Online

asked Mar 7 '13 at 14:42

Lookingforanswers
11 points

I have a friend Z who has been acting as the middle-man between me and his clients. Z contributes to less than one percent of my business' revenue. The projects that Z refers usually amounts to $1k...

Referrals Commission

asked Mar 8 '13 at 01:50

John
170 points

I'm a sole android app developer with good quality free apps (games) but not much experience in marketing and promotion of my apps. My biggest problem is that I have little money to promote my...

Advertising Mobile Apps

asked Mar 8 '13 at 02:10

Relax Factor
1 point