Thanks jacquesm and gregpilling I appreciate all the advice you have given me!
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Our biggest advantage of not setting up in the US apart from the legal aspect is being able to avoid a lot of the taxes.
When I spoke to the insurers here they told me that should someone in the US sue us it would be in a US court and not a UK court where as you mention the damages are potentially extortionately high!
As we are a very young company our exposure to the US is low but it is something that I cant ignore as a risk. Intuitively I would agree that the likelihood of being sued is greatly reduced not being registered in the US but it is a market I would like to grow into.
I think seeking advice from a lawyer with experience with US defense is a good advice and I will do this, thanks.
I am in the retail industry selling home furnishings and although the US are more friendly (than the UK) with their duty free rate of $200 the legal system is making me consider whether I can even do business there from the UK.
It is too big of a risk to take selling physical products to the US when one legal case can take me out of business.
If anyone can recommend me a UK based insurer who will even quote on a product importer to the US I would be delighted to know.
This is the case if you are a director with 25% or more shareholding in the company. You are not required to hold a visa or visit the country.
This is my experience recently registering a company with two other people - I am British and the other two are Indians. I was present at the bank and registered for the account whilst the other two were overseas. Some couriered documents were required with the notarised documents as mentioned above, additionally they were required to complete a form which they signed.
They have full access to the account - online and offline - in the same way I have.
This is not true. I have registered a few companies and not once did they care about the printed certificate. They will call Companies House or email them and confirm you are a director and the company exists.
Note: My bank is Lloyds TSB.
I totally agree that the best option is to be the last person getting onto the plane and ideally the first one off. Premium, Business, First class cabins tempt you on with their pre flight drinks.
The guid is set to expire after a period of time and requires that registered email and the key together. It won't allow login, only changing of their password.
The Indian government need to get their act together and not leave it up to the private companies to clean up the mess in India. I have spent time in Delhi and what I have seen is shocking. Private companies run taxi services for their workers because it is so unsafe and the government run services are so unreliable that they are left with no other option.
The major commercial districts are built with private money and thus you see great big modern buildings with dusty and potholed roads without any paths connecting them so stepping outside the campus of these buildings you go from 1st world to 3rd world in a matter of a few steps.
There is more to making someones life livable than simply constructing four walls with a roof and some windows. You need to implement proper sanitation and other fundamental facilities such as appropriate policing and transportation. without these you are just fueling the growth of these slums and the internal migration from the countryside into the cities.
I can see India with an incredible future and rapid growth if simply the corruption and mismanagement is sorted out in the government sector.
However, I wouldn't pay for this service when my lecturers and teaching assistants would do this for free and as they were the ones setting the exams I would prefer their advice than that of an unknown person.
Personally I host MVC 3 on a Windows server 2008 R2 with Hetzner for €65 per month.
The Bizspark programme will help you to keep the licensing cost down to pretty much zero in the short run so I don't think this should be a major concern.
Like another commenter suggests you can look at Mono which will let you run MVC 3 (with the Razor view engine), however note that EntityFramework isn't supported and you would be advised to start from scratch in Mono and port to .NET actual later if you chose that route rather than the other way.
You can rent a 2 bed appt for around £400 a month in a good area - perhaps this is more than you were planning on but I think it is somewhere that you wouldn't have to fight with. I found China to be an incredible place but if I am perfectly honest it is not an easy place to be - fun and eye opening but can be an absolute nightmare if you don't speak the local dialect - even if you have some very helpful local friends. That said Shanghai has a large expat community where you will be able to very easily get involved in (http://www.shanghaiexpat.com/)
BTW - I am personally going to be in Delhi a lot as I am setting up a business there and I spent a lot of time in Shanghai in the past.
If I were a customer of CCAvenue I would close my account and move to someone like DirecPay from Times Of Money.
One thing that worries me is I was expecting to see a git repository - Preferably on GitHub where this is hosted so I can see what is going on inside the server itself.
I am excited to see where it goes because currently I have some flaky Gitorious setup but I develop .NET mainly so if I can have user based git hosting on my own windows server this would be absolutely amazing.
Do you think this would also help manage the 'drunken email' syndrome many of us get?
To me ly says 'We have no track record, use with caution' I would feel more comfortable using something with a name that isn't following some online fashion.