There are lots of services to help you incorporate. Incorporate.com and LegalZoom are well known. What's new about Atlas, other than bundling other services and charging more?
I’m Joining Stripe to Work on Atlas
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#182Earlier quoted context omitted.
Was there a pattern in them getting turned down, like that applicants were too expensive or had the wrong skillset or something? I stopped referring people to a former employer because I saw how much they jerked around people during the pipeline. Good luck on the new news, and thanks for getting Starfighter as far as you did. :)
We're not done yet!
Are you still working on StartFighter but with different focus and without Patrick?
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#183Is this at all related to MYOB's Atlas? https://www.myob.com/au/small-business/atlas-website-builder
No.
I guess not as well. I wonder if they will brand differently in Asia Pacific to reduce confusion. MYOB's Atlas does not appear to be targeted towards business outside AU, but Stripe Atlas is targeted at international customers so there may be some collision there.
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#184Automating startup of a company online is a bad, bad, bad idea folks. Like, Gibson dystopia bad. EDIT: Okay hivemind. Seriously, can none of you think of any ill use that automatic provisioning of a economic entity--able to own property, intervene in politics, and interact with the legal system, enter into contracts, and so forth--could be put to? Like, really ?
I didn't downvote you, but that comment was totally content-free. Try making an actual argument about why the dangers outweigh the benefits and I'll bet you the "hivemind" won't be so hard on you.
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#185@patio11: may we get a post-mortem on Starfighter, and more details on what you learned about startups?
Perhaps Starfighter failed because the cofounders spent too much time commenting on Hacker News?
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#187First time I've seen Atlas. I'm immediately worried. If someone starts a company using this I presume it's subject to US laws? What does this mean: 1. For taxes? If I live in the UK and start my business with Atlas does the US get the corporation tax revenue or the UK (or a split of the two)? 2. For data security/privacy? Is the data I store now subject to access by the US government through National Security letters…
HMRC could easily deem the company as being controlled in the UK[0]. This could potentially cause you problems, but then again the corporate tax rate in the US is considerably higher so would there be any tax owed considering the double-taxation agreement[1]?
[0] http://www.menzies.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/INTERNAT...
[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/usa-tax-treaties
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#188Why would someone making 30k a week as a consultant take a job[1]?
[1]https://www.kalzumeus.com/2015/05/01/talking-about-money/
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#189I for one am more than faintly relieved that Starfighter has fallen. It looked to me like an attempt to find the most direct way possible to parlay the prominent position that Thomas and Patrick have in this community into cash - by literally selling its members. There's a line that's crossed here between being a member of HN buoyed up by the good wishes and advice of your fellows, and using the community as a resour…
You'll be happy to know that me and my cofounders are still diligently at work finding new ways to convert HN karma to cold hard cash.
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#190Sorry to hear about starfighter, but it looks like you've more than landed on your feet. Good luck! I think with a big company at your back, you may be able to leverage that to do some great things. People in the US have no idea how easy they have it with creating a company, something I helped to fix a little tiny bit in Italy: https://blog.therealitaly.com/2015/04/16/fixing-italy-a-litt... One of the key points: > A…
not anymore
in Italy you can create a new type of company: S.r.l.s. (società a repsonsbailita limitata semplice) with only a few hundreds euros
I'm italian and owner of an S.r.l.s.