It is very important; security, backup, maintenance etc... The problem is there are two kinds of customers, cheap and cautious. Cheap only wants to pay $12 a month.. and does not understand or want to understand that not having maintenance is a bad idea. The cautious ones pay anywhere from $50 to...
Your milage may vary, but from our experience, in short (please verify with a Tax-accountant, I have one I can refer you to): if you're paying people to do work for you that do not have a U.S. Tax ID #, it's a complete write-off and you do not require a W9 from them.
You may engage an Investment Banker to help you. That will be the best option as he/she will have his/her pre-existing connections.
Ensure you register with Bing Webmaster Tools to submit your site map would be a good first step. This will show you that the pages are being crawled by Bing and that there isn't some hinderance to that.
There isn't a lot of published information that I've seen (or can quickly find) on how washio and postmates validated their business model, but I definitely agree that starting fairly lean and validating your business first even if that means a lot of manual effort up front is a better approach t...
You can live wherever you want and have a business wherever you want. Especially with an LLC. The IRS doesn't care because with an LLC, the profit flows through the business to it's Members, to the extent of their basis. So if you own 75% and another Member owns 25%, then the profits are distr...
Rather than using a shot-gun approach which could quickly back-fire on you - because "its a small world", I would qualify them and determine the odds of your deal obtaining approval at terms which would be acceptable to you. Typically, providing an executive summary should give them enough inform...
There are several creative ways to get this deal done. Feel free to call or email me.
This is hard to answer without knowing the size of company you are targeting...
I don't know if I would suggest a book on "fundraising" because this is a situation in which personality, quality of team, execution and overall market potential play a determinant role in you getting funded. I've read a lot of books! I mean really a lot!! Mainly because i enjoy it, but the book...