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Ask HN:Can I incorporate my web startup in the US?
I'm an international student holding F-1 visa?
- abofh 13y agoCorporations are people, so yes; Contact your lawyer though, your situation is non-trivial, and screwing it up could cost you more than the profits.
- michaelstewart 13y agoI would definitely talk to a lawyer. You might be able to incorporate a company but not legally work for your company.
- thakobyan 13y agoYes I talked to some lawyers and that's what they told me. Thank you!!!
- prattbhatt 13y agoThe founder of Freshdesk wrote a nice blogpost on this a few years ago: http://blog.freshdesk.com/how-to-incorporate-a-us-corporation-from-outs/ http://blog.freshdesk.com/how-to-incorporate-a-us-corporatio...
- rl12345 13y agoLegally, yes you can. But should you? One of the great advantages of the internet is that it allows you to launch and test a new a product without all the bureaucracy that comes along with a traditional company. And bureaucracy = financial and time costs. My advice is to only incorporate in the US if you have a STRONG reason to. If no STRONG reason found, don't incorporate yet and ask yourself this question again X weeks from now.