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Stripe Atlas — The best way to start an internet business
Stripe Atlas is a tool to handle everything involved in establishing an internet business, available to entrepreneurs everywhere. It's the easiest way to incorporate in the U.S. and setup a bank account.
The Product Hunt community has special instant access to Stripe Atlas—hit the website link above to get started right away.
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@daveparkhere Stripe Atlas users receive up to $15,000 in AWS credits through the AWS Activate program.
You'll also get free access to the AWS Business Essentials and AWS Technical Essentials training (normally $600 each), 80 credits for Self-paced labs, and up to $5,000 of AWS Support Credit toward premium AWS Business Support.
You can learn more here: https://aws.amazon.com/activate/...
This is awesome. I love how simple they are making this process. @edwinwee I would love to get an invite!
@lipmanb Hit the "Get it" button at the top! The Product Hunt community now has instant access to Stripe Atlas.
Is it possible to get an Apple dev organization a/c for Stripe Atlas companies? Since Apple asks for and validates phone number & billing address to be US one when applying? How do the current Stripe Atlas companies deal with this?
@iwizardabhi A number of our companies have gotten set up on the App Store. Mostly it's a matter of submitting their documentation to D&B; we've heard reports that it was helpful to contact appdeveloper@dnb.com to explain your particular situation. You can attach your certificate of incorporation. Apparently, it’s quite a quick process after that. You may need a US phone number, but you can use a Skype or Google Voice number in this case.
(One of the reasons we have forums is so that our companies can assist each other with this sort of thing and so we can help them on it.)
Hey there, just going through the setup documents and I came across this from your guide here: https://stripe.com/files/atlas/o...
"Note that one popular type of U.S. visa (known as an L-1 visa) allows for the transfer of
key employees among an international group of companies, and for this purpose the
U.S. entity *should be a subsidiary* of the non-U.S. parent."
This isn't the only way to set a company up for L1 but this doc makes it sound like this is the only way
This details great options for fulfilling L-1 business requirements: http://www.usvisalawyers.co.uk/a...
In short, your options are:
- Both employers can be parent and subsidiary. It makes no difference which employer (US or non-US) is the parent, and which the subsidiary.
- One of the employers could be the branch office of the other. Again, the US employer may be either the headquarters or the branch office.
- The businesses could be sister companies—that is, they could be owned by a mutual parent.
- The companies could be affiliates, both owned by the same person or by the same group of people. If the companies are owned by a group of individuals each person in the group must have approximately the same percentage ownership of the US as of the non-US company.
When, oh when will Stripe do anything for the Czech Republic. Five years, "coming soon..."
@osakasaul Stripe Atlas is open for business for Czech founders.
If you're looking for a Czech Republic-based Stripe account, we don't have an ETA for when we'll be live there, but you can sign up to get notified at https://stripe.com/global#CZ.
It would be nice to be able to start business in another country too. Like for a US company expanding to Europe or Asia.
Until they support LLC and S-Corp formation, does anyone have recommendations for similar services that do support those less-intense structures?
EDIT: Product Hunters who hit the GET IT link, get to skip the queue and get into Stripe Atlas straight away!!!
Stripe Atlas is back! It released a pre-launch last year with over 3.5k upvotes!
Updates include now allowing US peeps sign up!
A wealth of knowledge, resources and tools.
And as all Stripe products, the pages look slick AF. I went through the process of it all (although i wasnt setting everything up) a few weeks ago so its awesome to see the update!
PLUS we have @patio11 on for a LIVE tomorrow!! Sign Up Here
@bentossell @patio11 Still seems restricted to me? Tried to sign up and was told that I'd get an email within two weeks with their decision. Thoughts?
@macconnollyco @patio11 yeh you're right, it is still request access but they get back really quick... what I meant was that last time the people allowed in was very limited.
Request access though, its worth it!
@macconnollyco @bentossell @patio11 As a test I filled out the form from Bermuda last year and they got back to me pretty quickly.
Hoping to get a local Bermuda charity signed up to it soon to facilitate local fundraising efforts.
I've been waiting for this to come into the US market! Will have to give this a more serious look now that it's available here. Also, thanks for doing the PH Live, @patio11. Looking forward to it!
We used Atlas for our online gift cakery, NotPie, and found the process to be mostly smooth and by far the best way to hit the ground running! The updates with the banking should make it even dreamier for entrepreneurs. If you're legit, I've got an invite code to share.
Just started our Atlas journey 4 days ago with Storyheap.com. Really excited to see how it goes! So far I'm pretty impressed.
Hey we're an accelerator of AI startups of #1 university of Russia. Can we get an invite for our pojects to Stripe?
@antonabramov According to Atlas docs (https://stripe.com/docs/atlas#ca...), starting a company with operations in Russia is unavailable at the moment.
@antonabramov To service clients from Russia in rubles seems blocked forever. But other markets probably need to try...
If there are people from India who have already joined Atlas, please connect. We already have a invite from Stripe, have some questions around India and US compliance.
@ajonit In today's update, we're launching a community of founders for members—we have a bunch of founders from India who have used Atlas to get started. Shoot me an email at edwin.wee@stripe.com and we'd be happy to help answer any questions!
@joshdance It's toward the bottom of the page: https://stripe.com/atlas
After everything's set up, there's a one-time fee of $500.
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