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Dear Sophie: How do I successfully expand my company to the US?

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Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” LLC versus Delaware C-corp. One of the first decisions you’ll need to make is how to structure your company in the U.S. Sophie Alcorn.

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Dear Sophie: How can I launch a startup while on OPT?

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Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” and find investors here, then talk to a corporate attorney to determine how to structure the company. Sophie Alcorn. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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Ask Sophie: How do we transfer H-1Bs and green cards to our startup?

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Sophie Alcorn Contributor Share on Twitter Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives.

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Raise, a startup building Africa’s Carta, gets backing from 500 Startups

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They spent money managing corporate structures for holding companies in Delaware, Canada, and Europe but maintained paper-based subsidiaries across Africa. African startups join global funding boom as fintech shines.

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Founded by a Freshworks alum, sales commission platform Everstage gets $1.7M seed funding

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Commission structures are often complex, and become even more labyrinthine as companies grow. The company is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, with an office in Chennai, India. Everstage founding team Vivek Suriyamoorthy and Siva Rajamani. For sales representatives, commissions are source of motivation—and frustration, too.

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Muslims come into the frame in Southeast Asia’s fintech boom

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Headquartered in Delaware, Blossom Finance hosts investors from primarily the United States and Europe, but all of the microbusinesses it serves are in Indonesia. It’s very rare to find a model unique to Southeast Asia that can go global and I actually don’t know of any but Islamic fintech.” After initially soft-launching in the U.S.,

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Terraformation gets $30M to fight climate change with rapid reforesting

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Terraformation’s goal is to restore three billion acres of global native forest ecosystems by scaling tree replanting projects in parallel, scaling the use of existing techniques, and working with all the partners it can. “The solution is structured to give us maximum flexibility, given that we can use a large variety of land.

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