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by patio11 8y ago
Either supports that use case; the decision is typically driven by other considerations. I wrote a guide about them: https://stripe.com/atlas/guides/llc-vs-c-corp
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by patio11 8y ago
Quoting the Orrick legal guide: Each U.S. state has laws that allow you to form an LLC. Similarly, each state has its own rules governing the formation, governance and management of LLCs. Delaware LLCs have the benefit of being simple to f
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by patio11 8y ago
An LLC can elect to be taxed as an S Corp. We're happy to introduce all Atlas companies to accountants; this is something you can ask them to do for you.
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by patio11 8y ago
Hiya folks! I worked with the team on this; happy to answer any questions you have.
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by patio11 8y ago
Hideho folks. I worked with the team on this, and am happy to answer any questions you have.
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by patio11 9y ago
Twilio account with N logins; use it to receive the verification SMS messages. (You can do something mildly clever and split them in real time to both phones but easier just to send them to a vacuous script and get them from the logs in the
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by patio11 9y ago
It's abandoned property, where the only person with a colorable claim obviously, publicly, notoriously, and intentionally relinquished it. It will depend a little bit on the laws of the state where it is found, but in general, if you f
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by patio11 9y ago
I think the interesting questions are probably a rangefinding exercise for a) at what age, expressed in employee count, was it pretty obvious that Google would be Google or Facebook would be Facebook, b) at what age, expressed in employee c
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by patio11 9y ago
You've asked a question which is approximately "What is a garbage collector?" in terms of depth. Here's the short answer: it's a regulation about electronic funds transfers that US financial institutions, including
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by patio11 9y ago
I work at a financial institution with some professionals who will get very cross with me if I apply the requirements of a statute to the facts of a particular banking product. Let me just observe that, separate from the legal issue, it is
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by patio11 9y ago
If you ever send money to A and it actually goes to B, and for some reason the bank doesn't fix that the first time you get in touch with them, I recommend getting off the phone and escalating to an on-dead-tree letter: Dear BigBank Le
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by patio11 9y ago
We have a bunch of internal tools; this is not that, though I do really love Home, too.
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by patio11 9y ago
My perspective on this is colored by selling SaaS. In software sold on a free-trial model, you assume most trials don’t convert (overwhelmingly due to declining to pay but with a bit of fraud) and then the cost to provision the service (COG
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by patio11 9y ago
Could you write to us to speak in more detail about the business seeing a majority of churn due to payment failures? That’s surprising to us; we’d love to help you debug it. My address is my HN username at stripe.com. We’re keenly aware of
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by patio11 9y ago
I have to bang a drum here, because it's a really important drum for HNers to hear and internalize: It is factually the case that AppAmaGooBookSoft pay mid-career professionals in the engineering track approximately that at whatever th
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by patio11 9y ago
Since I would have sympathized with this viewpoint earlier in life, I’ll give you the just-the-facts version: He took an offline business in a regulated industry (wine) which he inherited and ~20Xed it online, got Internet famous, built one
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by patio11 9y ago
The tax code simultaneously strongly encouraged you to not consume goods/services but rather have a company consume them on your behalf. This is still pretty de rigeur in Japan, which results in situations like this regarding executive
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by patio11 9y ago
It’s a loan covenant. They’re very common in a variety of commercial transactions; that particular requirement (you must maintain a minimum level of cash on hand) is relatively common. It’s really $X million, not $X minus 3 million, because
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by patio11 9y ago
We're available throughout Africa through Atlas, and are happily serving customers in many African countries, including South Africa. (The community in Cape Town is huge!) We want to be able to support entrepreneurs and businesses subs
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by patio11 9y ago
While we'd be happy to have you in Stripe Atlas, we'd also be happy to have you in the live preview for Stripe in Brazil. You can sign up here: https://stripe.com/global#br Send me an email after doing so (my emai
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by patio11 9y ago
One of our banking partners does charge a $25 maintenance fee, waived under a few conditions (including a balance in roughly the range that you quote). We try to be pretty up-front about this; CTRL-F "Ongoing Costs" on https:&#x2
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by patio11 9y ago
I work on Stripe Atlas. Prior to that, I ran a few software businesses, all as LLCs. A rule I had in my business was “Don’t talk about timelines until you’re ready to ship, because they only slip, and then people are sad.” I broke the rule
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by patio11 9y ago
One of the joys about dealing with partners is that occasionally offers change over time as partners’ strategies change, their interest in particular programs of theirs changes, etc. We can offer new Stripe Atlas customers (as of April 2018
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by patio11 9y ago
We do not support this at present, but are aware that many people want to do it. Would you mind telling me what you’re hoping to get out of doing that, so that I can take that to the team?
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by patio11 9y ago
US companies can deduct expenses necessary and reasonable for the business from their income taxes and employee salaries are business expenses. You will probably want advice from an accountant local to your foreign employee as to how to com
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by patio11 9y ago
If you’d like, you or anyone else on HN can send me an email and I’ll send you an invitation. That form is the primary way most people get access; we invite almost everyone whose business we could accept within 48 hours of hitting submit on
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by patio11 9y ago
Approximately $1,000, with some variation due to individual choices and variation, on the US side of things. I can’t speculate as to what it costs on your side of things.
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by patio11 9y ago
Tenant: "Reverse this payment from 6 weeks ago." Bank: "Why?" Tenant: "Well my landlord [tale of woe]." Bank: "So I'm hearing that the payment was unauthorized." Tenant: "Yes!" Bank: &q
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by patio11 9y ago
Bingo Card Creator's MailChimp account got shut down once for gambling content. I sent in a request to support with an explanation that there was no gambling involved; the matter was resolved within a business day. Running an email ser
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by patio11 9y ago
( If any HNers want a short and comprehensible-to-a-nonspecialist gloss of Japanese zoning in English, you can read this: http://urbankchoze.blogspot.jp/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html )

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