Legal Questions
How to organize a startup, which contains different people from different parts of the world with no common office? Where to register it? How to deal with taxes? Which legal issues could arise?...
We selling in India via e-commerce website. We are in talks with few logistic companies to help us build logistics (warehouse and home delivery) in USA. Do you think this is legally possible or we...
51 points
Is there such thing as not making enough money to get taxed in NY state? What is that amount?
My partner and I have been looking for keyman life insurance so one or the other could buy our equity if we were to be disabled or killed; however, finding information about a policy is difficult....
Is there a widely recognised 'best place of business' for global social-media style internet businesses, and what are the considerations? Considerations I'm thinking about are taxation, regulation,...
186 points
My problem is that we're planning on using Windows Azure hosting, but we're from Jamaica. Windows Azure does not yet allow hosting in Jamaica. Is it okay for a company to falsify an address to get...
I'm in the process of creating a startup. Right now it's just a series of apps in the iTunes app store but there's a ton more I want to do with it. The apps were made available for sale almost 3...
Would I have to patent my computer systems (such as desktops and laptops) in order to produce them and sell them to markets? Similar to Dell and HP would operate.
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I am working on a startup that deals with sports gambling. Real money is not wagered on the site but can be involved outside of the site, similar to an office pool. My startup is at the point where...
16 points
Hopefully someone can gimme a hand. This is actually a question for a school project, but I've got some ideas kicking in my head for a startup, so I have good cause to know this for personal...
130 points
We plan to start e-retail (online retail business of organic products) in USA and would like to know the following: - Do we need to take license to start online business? - Any registration...
51 points
I work for a church here in California as a gfx designer. 8 months ago I had an idea for a web service we could use at the church I work at. I spoke to my pastor (boss) about the idea and he said...
31 points
I'd like to create a brand, naturally, but I have a problem. You see, there are only so many colors in the world and the number of colors has not changed much since the 1980s, when software...
I have a reseller who would like to buy a licensed version of our software product and share the revenues we make on the joint sale of the product within a specific territory. What type of...
484 points
Always, wondered this, and never found a good answer. Guess the opposite applies, too -- how do you know someone does NOT have the right to enter a legal agreement on behalf of a company? Please...
899 points
I am in the early stages of developing a site that tries to provide a direct way of rewarding photographers who provide good material. Its a small idea but I want to implement it and see how the...
I wanted to create a new website that was a Question and Answer site in a specific niche (one that SE is not in right now). My problem is that the more I design and create the website, the closer...
We are based in India and wish to set-up online store of Organic Products (Food and Textile) in USA under a brand name. I have few questions about this: - Do we need to set-up a company there i.e....
51 points
Just keeping it simple. I am a freelance web designer, I have an accountant, and I take payments payable to my name. Is there any reason I should form an LLC? Am I safe to continue doing what I'm...
My current startup(which consists of two) is going through incorporation, registering the merchant account and hooking it up with Braintree. I saw Jason L Baptiste's interview on Mixergy where he...
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