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Beyond Freelancing: Building a Business from Your Freelance Skills

The Motley Fool

Decide on a legal structure There are several types of business structures, and the format you choose will depend on the state in which you operate, whether you have business partners, and the overall risk of your business. Finally, an LLC, or limited liability company, creates a separate legal entity for your business.

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10 Friday AM Reads

The Big Picture

How New York City Became a Free-for-All of Unlicensed Weed : Shops selling weed have proliferated since the state legalized cannabis last year, thriving in confusion over their legality and a lack of enforcement. ( The Political Economy Blog ). That will cause a drop in property taxes and strain city budgets. New York Times ).

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What Diaspora Should Do with their Newfound Fuckyoufacebook Money

This is going to be BIG.

Start blogging and telling the world, in very plain, innocuous, basic terms, what you’re aiming for, what your driving goals are, who you are, etc. 4) Get your legal and financial ducks in order. Now that you have money, you’re going to have all sorts of legal and financial responsibility.

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How to Bootstrap a New Business

The Motley Fool

Others may receive help from family and friends, use credit cards , or sell assets to raise capital. When I was a young lawyer with my first office, I bartered for a year with a contractor who needed legal help. Start a blog, create how-to videos, do TikToks, or offer free webinars on topics related to your business.

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The Screwy Logic of Crowdfunding and Venture Fund Regulation

This is going to be BIG.

I would say something like, "You should see the number of complicated disclosures I had to had to pay a lawyer tens of thousands of dollars to put into my fund's legal docs," that is, if I could say anything about the fundraising status of any fund that I might have at all. I can't tell you anything about it thanks to the SEC.

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You can lead a city government to social media water, but you can’t make it drink: Thoughts on the new Chief Digital Officer position

This is going to be BIG.

Will our lawmakers and city officials be empowered to engage with citizens without having everything run through legal first? I took a meeting with a city official once and the first think he said to me was that the contents of the meeting were not to be blogged. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY.

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The Basics of Stock Option Compensation

Walkner Condon Financial Advisors

In this blog post, we will explore the taxation of stock options and provide an overview of how it works. If the employee holds onto the stock after exercising the options, any future appreciation in the stock’s value will be subject to capital gains tax when the stock is eventually sold.