Legal Questions

I live in India. I need to start a social networking site here for the indian users as well as spread it to users abroad in USA, Europe, Australia. As of now, I start as a 1-man startup. I need to...

India Incorporation Legal Website

asked May 22 '13 at 21:01

User01
106 points

I wasn't aware that I had to pay Franchise Tax in Delaware, whats the worst thing that will happen if I leave the LLC "VOID". Can I still have a good standing LLC in NY?

LLC Legal Tax Delaware

asked May 29 '13 at 04:25

Nsh Please
1 point

So I am working on a start up company in the fitness sector. Besides a couple of other things we are making training videos for fitness instructors, to show them how to do the moves and such. Our...

Legal Trademark

asked Jun 3 '13 at 07:29

Olli
89 points

6 months ago I quit my job to start a startup with two other people. I'm the business guy. I worked full-time on the project from day No. 1, and made substantial contributions to branding, customer...

Co-Founder Equity Legal Founders Vesting

asked Apr 30 '13 at 08:23

Ileftearly
21 points

I just started working in India and the firm,I am working for, faces some small legal issues frequently. Small things like boundary dispute, customers check bounce etc. Since we have offices at...

India Legal Business

asked May 1 '13 at 05:05

User899893
24 points

I do work with currencies trading (Forex), I do have Forex traders who trade with my capital, and it is increasing gradually. What I want to do is to find a solution which allows me to run trading...

Finance Legal Offshore

asked May 1 '13 at 23:38

Trading Fx
1 point

A is currently employed at company X which in turn is a vendor for company Z. A realized that certain aspects of running the business for Z which X is failing at can be productized/offered as a...

Legal Business Copyright Intellectual Property

asked May 2 '13 at 00:32

Moonstar2001
186 points

I am in the process of drafting the articles of organization for my LLC. I would like to specify in there, that the ownership of the LLC is specified with units, and LLC members receive a certain...

LLC Incorporation Legal Legal Documents Legal Entity

asked May 2 '13 at 13:27

Olli
89 points

We've recently launched a platform and we start aquiring emails from users, partly from facebook and partly on their own merit. We want to start sending operational emails to our users, for...

Legal Email Operations

asked May 4 '13 at 21:45

Itai Sagi
337 points

I keep reading about the high percentage of tech startups in the US that are founded by immigrant entrepreneurs (39% in California ). I also keep reading about how hard immigrating to the US is for...

Getting Started Foreign Legal

asked Apr 6 '13 at 16:01

Tyler
24 points

When the company is no longer doing business - Is there going to be any consequences if a c corp (delaware) is in void status due to failure to file annual report? would this affect the personal...

Legal Corporation

asked Apr 11 '13 at 03:33

James
1 point

This is a cross-post from stackoverflow; I was told you guys might be more knowlegable in this area... I have an idea for a project which, ideally, I would like to eventually make money...

Software Legal Copyright Software Licensing

asked Apr 14 '13 at 14:52

Araisbec
16 points

I've spent the last 3 months full-time building an alpha version of a web app, and developing a business plan for it. The alpha version is ready to launch. Recently I've stumbled upon the fact that...

Getting Started Legal Patent Intellectual Property

asked Apr 15 '13 at 05:45

Amindfv
186 points

So I have a question about the theoretical holding of charitable donations. So I have a start up idea that I am busy coding away on... At the base of the idea is spreading the wealth of humanity,...

Legal User Experience Currency

asked Apr 20 '13 at 07:45

Brendan Morrison
106 points

Two month ago I've joined with two friends to build a startup. I came with the idea and we started working. Two weeks ago, the first partner left the project due to lack of time. The second partner...

Legal Founders Agreement Partnerships

asked Apr 23 '13 at 20:17

Thedp
106 points

We are in a sticky situation, that is no ones fault but our own. We had approached a developer to join our startup. After showing him the project he was excited and decided to join. Our mistake was...

Co-Founder Legal Investors Intellectual Property

asked Apr 24 '13 at 15:13

Derek
164 points

Do I need to register OR incorporate my start up to be able to legally hire people? This start up will be in India. Can I give written appointment letter if I am just a sole proprietor? Will it be...

Legal Hire

asked Apr 24 '13 at 17:55

Abhijit Navale
245 points

If I make and sell some software (online if that matters), and say that software ends up causing some unexpected behavior (let's go extreme and say it deletes all data on the hard drive!). Am I...

Sales Legal Licensing Liability

asked Mar 22 '13 at 07:09

Snake Doc
179 points

Please help. I'll make this as simple and concise as possible: I will be manufacturing my own parts, AT HOME, in South Carolina. I intend to sell the products exclusively online with an online...

Getting Started Ecommerce LLC Legal Business

asked Mar 23 '13 at 00:41

George
21 points

I'm Canadian and living in Canada and I have a professional friend who is American and living in the States. He and I want to start a call center. The operation will be centered around him for...

Incorporation Outsourcing Legal Employees

asked Mar 25 '13 at 04:43

User25605
11 points