Starting a Business

[Jim]

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On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 16:52, Ed Skinner wrote:
>      I'm looking to start a business. My initial needs are incorporation,=
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> company name and a nominal web presence. I'm in the thinking stage and=20
> working on cost estimates and a startup plan.
>      Is there anyone in this group who:
> 1) has done this recently and is willing to share their experience, or
> 2) does this professionally and is interested in assisting (professionall=
y)?
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If you havent been there already, visit the Arizona Corporation
Commission web site (http://www.cc.state.az.us/corp/index.htm).  There
is a lot of good information about forming a corporation in Arizona
there.

>      At this point I have a business name I like and the *.com domain is=20
> available along with the domains of a couple of easy misspellings. But on=
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> the common misspellings is already taken and, worse, it belongs to a comp=
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> in the greater Phoenix area. Is that a problem?
>      What sort of incorporation would be best? A "subchapter S" incorpora=
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> was suggested. The business will be consulting-oriented but there will be=
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> some "pack and ship" physical products as well.
>      Initially, the web presence will be no more than a dozen simple page=
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> (which I will craft myself). This will probably be hosted very simply (su=
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> as at register.com for $14.95/month plus three email mailboxes). Eventual=
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> however, it'll move to a more capable hosted site and include apache-base=
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> custom interactive pages (again which I will either write or, more likely=
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> use an open source package).
>      Suggestions/comments are welcomed.
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> Ed Skinner, ed@flat5.net, http://www.flat5.net/
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 Jim

 Freedom is all we really want

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