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

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You must also work full time and have all the proper business licenses that your state requires. and find investors here, then talk to a corporate attorney to determine how to structure the company. investors want to deal with Delaware C corporations. You don’t have to wait until you get OPT to start setting up your company.

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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. pre-seed after bagging country’s first SEC license. Nigerian investment platform Chaka secures $1.5M companies.

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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. As a result, Hijra got licensed by Indonesia’s Financial Services Authority (OJK) in 2019 to operate as a digital lending platform. After initially soft-launching in the U.S.,

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Elon Musk’s Twitter (now X): Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification

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Our data licensing and API with X is an incredible business. It added that, unlike its competitors TikTok and Instagram, Twitter hasn’t struck a music licensing deal for the use of copyrighted music. Developers remain unhappy with Twitter’s new API structure. Our new subscription business [is] growing,” Yaccarino said.

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Ex-OpenAI workers ask state AGs to block for-profit conversion

Fast Company Tech

Former employees of OpenAI are asking the top law enforcement officers in California and Delaware to stop the company from shifting control of its artificial intelligence technology from a nonprofit charity to a for-profit business. OpenAI is incorporated in Delaware and operates out of San Francisco.

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How Ann Arbor’s sustainable energy utility could impact future power grids

Fast Company Tech

All of these options would be difficult if not impossible under the current utility structure. including Delaware and Washington, D.C., This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Five ways Ann Arbors SEU would provide power. SEUs created in other parts of the U.S.,

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