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Hiring Firm Dealicio, an New Hampshire based web startup Description of Vendor Need Are you a PHP programmer that likes to mash it up with CakePHP? Do you REST in your sleep, cURL your coffee in the morning, and eat SOAP for breakfast? We’d like to meet you! We have an ongoing need for an [...]

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Question: What is the correct legal entity for a startup currently based in Israel but building a SaaS product serving the US market? Should they incorporate in the US first, or in their locally? Answer: There is no “correct” legal entity choice here really. The particular tax circumstances of the Founders of the entity, and [...]

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Question: Can you deduct business expenses before your company has revenue? If so, what business expenses are deductible? Answer: Apart from organizational expenses of the business which will be capitalized (e.g., which constitute part of the “tax” investment in the company and are recoverable through depreciation, amortization and/or sale of the business) you most certainly [...]

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Hiring Firm Mokabla, Inc., an Atlanta based web startup Description of Vendor Need We have completed development of our site but it has been designed from a functional point of view and I would like for UX/UI work to be done. I will look at previous work that has been done as a criteria. Compensation [...]

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Question: Is there a “tax attractiveness” difference with respect to an acquisition if the company being sold is a corporation or an LLC? Answer: From an acquisition tax attractiveness perspective, while sale of a regular C corporation (as compared to an LLC that elects treatment as a partnership for tax purposes) would generally be considered [...]

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Question: At what stage should startups incorporate? Answer: The short answer to this question is that a startup should incorporate (or work through a limited liability entity) as soon as it commences commercial operations.  Commercial operations begin with the first activities that are undertaken by the business, even if they are not revenue generating in [...]

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Slides for From Concept to Website You have a great idea for a startup business.  It’s a concept nobody has thought of before and you’re sure it will change the world – and make millions in profit.  The problem is, you’ve never built a website before.  So how do you implement your idea?  Come to [...]

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Pitches for The Email Mafia – November 2010 Name Website Compete Salim Mitha Wahanda 13561 Joseph Rosenberg zenofon llc 3174 Scott Wolpow MyFilm 796 Rana  Mumtaz FABLOGUE 750 Hunter Cohen CoNeXus Software 745

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I’ve been in touch recently with an entrepreneurship and small business show on a prominent cable TV network.  They heard about the growing phenomenon of the “ultra light” startup and would like to profile one or more Ultra Light Startups member companies in a 5-minute segment on their show.  I’m soliciting nominations for ULS members [...]

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The Email Mafia Thursday, November 4 Video Guide 0:00 Interviews (Chris McCann, Peter Shankman) 9:30 Introductions 15:30 Pitches 1:09:00 Interviews (Cynthia Franklin, Matt Wilson, Jason Baptiste, Fredrik Maroe, Joseph Rosenberg) 1:28:30 Panel – The Email Mafia This event reveals the secrets of running a highly profitable, highly scalable, bootstrapped media business with email as the [...]

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