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by redtexture 13y ago
Some questions to pursue with your advisers: What are the tax issues upon dissolution/merger/conversion of entities from one to the other, for the owners and the entity itself? Is there an impediment to rapidly converting a Subcha
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by redtexture 13y ago
Correction. You can have multiple kinds of LLC units or shares defined. But LLC flexibility can be an impediment, since new classes creation will involve sign off / agreements with existing unit holders, and restructuring the existing
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by redtexture 13y ago
The below linked post by Tobias Peggs describes the post-acquisition experience of their startup, and adjustment to working in a very large organization, and the effort to get changes and new things out the door. There are a lot more groups
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by redtexture 13y ago
LLC vs. Corporation has nothing to do with credibility. That this is even consideration is an indication of poor advice you have received so far. Nobody that deals with the entity should care whether it is a corporation or an LLC or Limited
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by redtexture 13y ago
Various VCs have indicated in multiple blogs that the state of incorporation is not significant. Having an out of state incorporation is a pain in the neck, and expensive, especially for people without much money. Don't bother. If the
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by redtexture 13y ago
Non-profit, meaning "non-stock" corporations need capital and initial support to get started as much as any other entity. Clearly YC considers the investment in non-stock entities a charitable contribution towards a (potential) go
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by redtexture 13y ago
On a community-basis, reporting widely and promptly about unfortunate events via your typical channels is important and a strong community-safety-measure, as well as an opportunity for safety-awareness and for participants and others to m
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by redtexture 13y ago
Find enough money to buy out your partner, or bail. This is not going to end well, and this is only the beginning of the end. You have an untrustworthy partner, and you jointly as a management team will not be able to weather genuine challe
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by redtexture 13y ago
Nope, not a response to Talebs critique.
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It looks like you have the equivalent of a new investor round, with a new valuation for the company, with all of the consequences of that new price/valuation. Already having other investors and option holders makes it a challenge to do
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by redtexture 13y ago
Any other investors? Any other options issued? Any other un-vested participants? It's the other participants that might make this challenging to be flexible, for future-oriented consequences. If you become the sole owner, subsequent pr
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by redtexture 13y ago
Another post with a similar line of thinking, on testing for paying customers: Mark Suster - Why You Need to Ring the Freaking Cash Register http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2013/07/16/ring-the-freak... Pe
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by redtexture 13y ago
I will sidestep particular suggestions for a general comment. One kind of general background is taking (many) steps toward figuring out who your market is, and not assuming that you understand the target population, which translates into:
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Publicity and visibility will be your biggest challenge. There's a reason Charles Dickens was on an American reading tour in 1867-1868: visibility and publicity. Here's an example of a graphic novel self published, initial print r
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by redtexture 13y ago
The full quote: “Sell your expertise and you have a limited repertoire. Sell your ignorance and you have an unlimited repertoire. He was selling his ignorance and his desire to learn about a subject. The journey of not knowing to knowing wa
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by redtexture 13y ago
Why not a web version for low $ per month? Secure / SSL connections, perhaps encrypted at the data storage end (you the app maker's end). But also available locally for non-connected occasions. If it's good enough for a keybo
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by redtexture 13y ago
You don't exactly have a plan for the money yet. Your plan so far is to bootstrap and fund via revenue. If your idea is good, and you have clients, you will continue to have a future in clients and revenue. You have not made a case h
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by redtexture 14y ago
Trillion dollar coin or no coin, the debt ceiling attempts to regulate (in part) expenditures already authorized by Congress and signed into law. It's a tempest in a teapot for one party in Congress to argue that it's irresponsible to condu
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There are numerous obvious examples that are exposed to non-lawyers. Lifetime has legal force in everyday contracts and agreements in addition to the "lifetime guarantee" that upstanding organizations such as Sears/Craftsman uphold. Trusts
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Essentially, your pricing indicates that you offer only the crippled version of the application unless the individual or small group obtains the $199.99 per month account. The pricing and usage limitations on forms for "personal" (one user
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Apps are great, but the web is better - by Trip Hawkins(blog.digitalchocolate.com)
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AmberCore.js
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Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror has some perspective: "On Working Remotely" http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/05/on-working-remotely... A lead-in quotation: "I have learned a few things about what it means to work remotely -- at least wh