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Why Entrepreneurs Must Learn to Love Paperwork  

The Startup Magazine

Be able to prove due diligence whenever you can. This extends to your respect for diligent record keeping as well; if you establish keeping clear and updated written records as a core part of the business then others will follow suit. Make it easier for others to give you advice.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, naming your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. . #1- Being a small cozy design studio at first, we understood we had to have a catchy name. That’s why ein (one in German) is present in the name.

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Corporation or LLC? Business Organizations for Tech Startups.

YoungUpstarts

If the formalities are skipped, the owners of the company could become personally liable for the debts of the company, or even be personally named in a lawsuit against the company. M&R is a national law firm with offices in California and New York. LLCs do not have these required formalities unless they want them.

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Hiring a Freelancer? Here’s What That Means for Your Taxes

Up and Running

million people found themselves out of work due to mass layoffs and furloughs. As a result, the economic downturn gave rise to some of the largest companies in the world today: Uber, Airbnb, and TaskRabbit, to name a few. For example, California is in the process of creating requirements for reporting gig worker income.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. By 2006 he had received proper authorization to move back to the US to join a company in the town I grew up in: Sacramento, California. We then moved our Chief Software Architect over. I hope that didn’t have a stature of limitation!

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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy

Steve Blank

The assets you can protect may include your “core technology&# like source code, hardware designs, architectures, processes, formulas. Or it can be your brand , logo or domain name. software, songs, movies, web site content. _. Enterprise software company – copyright and trade secrets are probable. Examples. _.

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How to Form a Corporation

Up and Running

We’ll review some new language and concepts in this process, but once you’re done, you may never need to think about this stuff again. . Think of the entity formation process like doing your personal taxes—you must submit everything correctly, but you don’t need to understand every detail of the laws and codes surrounding the process.