Legal Questions
I'm planning to start a local business where I would repair and tune up customer's computer's for a flat rate of, say, $60. I wouldn't hire any employees, I'd just be me. If I used freeware (open...
My apologies if this question has been asked before. I tried to find the answer reviewing other questions and still don't have the answer so here is the question(s): We are now setting up the...
I got interested in business models involving prediction markets and I am wondering at which point such a thing is considered gambling. Here are the cornerstones: it's a prediction market, i.e....
Is there a good resource for templates for those documents?
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I'm based in Hong Kong. I've read through a lot of information about share vesting for co-founders and realized that is definitely the solution I want. I'm now trying to figure out how to actually...
Suppose subcontractor A makes software for company B. Both are in the US. Company B would like to retain the rights to any code created for the project and all data will reside on databases...
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Im currently working on a channel on Yt which does album reviews and I've gone from just speaking to do it in person on webcam and I am hoping at some point to go for a Yt partnership as I've...
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I own a web hosting company and maintain my own servers in a colocation facility. I do not resell the hosting services of another company. My new startup company is a SaaS provider that I'm hosting...
We started our small corporation 2 years ago with 3 partners - lets, call them Adam, Ben and Carl for argument's sake. Adam and Ben do all the work. Carl turns out to be a louse who is always angry...
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We're forming a 2 person LLC and part of what we're trying to figure out is how much to leave in the LLC to build up some capital reserves. Since an LLC is a pass through tax entity if the LLC...
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I built an electronic version of a popular board game. I got some good responses on avoiding legal issues, but I went ahead and built it anyway, keeping it private for obvious reasons. Everyone who...
So here's the issue, I need to accept credit cards on my site, but I don't want to go through a merchant service, I want to go through visa/ amex/etc directly (it's a long story..). Now, to even...
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I own an LLC-based out of California in the bay area. While I own the basic domain for my company, I intend to launch my entity's first project using a different domain/name. That is, it's still...
I am a Product designer with 25 years in the field. I also have an extensive array of skill sets as well as facility. Computerized Milling, Engineering and Development software as well as Rapid...
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This is spawned from @Dana Shultz's answer to this question. from this portion of his answer: ...if you incorporate elsewhere but do business in CA, you will need to register in CA, too... ...
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I was thinking of creating an Android game/app that plays a soundtrack from a movie, and prompts you to guess what movie it is from. My question is: what are the legal ramifications of an app like...
There is this scenario. I registered dropbox.com (hereafter DB) and were using it. And DB offered me a referral program that I'll get 250mb for every free register from my referrer. So I gave DB...
We are a software company with an international partner in EU. They want to be exclusive as a distributor what should be the most important points we need in our agreement? Our product is not in a...
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I have been itching to do a startup since a long time but this visa (H1-B) is getting forever to sort out (6+ years already) One idea to work around the H1B issue is as follows - I transfer my...
For those of us who have incorporated a start-up and for those of us who are in the process: (1) did you hire counsel to handle the initial paperwork (i.e., for the initial founders' stock...
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