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- From: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
- Newsgroups: misc.entrepreneurs
- Subject: Re: start-up questions
- Message-ID: <D2150035.bbjnck@outpost.SF-Bay.org>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 05:47:24 GMT
- Reply-To: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
- Organization: Peirce Software
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- In article <1992Aug13.140726.17607@news.acns.nwu.edu> (misc.entrepreneurs), nader@bogart (Nader Sahyouni) writes:
- >
- > Hello there,
- >
- > my brother and I have almost completed some software we hope to market and
- > sell. We need to know how to:
- > 1) get set up to receive Purchase Orders
-
- You just need to say "We accept them." Then you need to set up a
- simple system to track them and collect them - some organizations
- pay you late (and in a few extreme cases, never).
-
- > 2) get set up to receive credit card orders
-
- This isn't hard, just a pain and will cost you. If you don't have
- a retail store front you will probably need to deposit some money
- with the handling bank and still pay a larger percentage than retailers.
-
- When I got mine with Family Bank they even had someone come by and
- photograph my office to prove I was really in business. A friend
- of a friend of mine works for VISA and he was telling me of the horror
- stories they have with purely mail-order merchants. They do lose
- a fair amount of money to fraud and will try very hard to make sure
- your not going to rip them off.
-
- > 3) whether or not to incorporate and what kind (S corp OK? Worth it?)
-
- Depends on LOTS of conditions. Here in California incorporating isn't
- cheap. I'm a proprietor until my accountant tells me otherwise.
-
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