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[prog]

I have officially entered the maze of administrivia necessary to create an on-paper business. I fully expect this to take a week or more while I chase pointers and wait for approvals to grind through different bureaucracies.

I'm trying to do this as fast as I can, but I think the System is fine-tuned to normalize all such efforts at expediency. This afternoon, for example, I hauled ass to get one form (MUST BE TYPED, DO NOT FAX) to the State House before 5. Got there just after 4:30, with everything still open, including the corporations department filings window, staffed with a sullen man whose sole job was apparently telling people that they close at 4.

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I see that ITA has nerdbait recruitment ads all over the T. It's looking like 2000 again, gord bless them. I hope they're not being irrationally exuberant.

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Ork.

[kyroraz.livejournal.com]

Knowing what I know, they're not. Really. I can't say why though.

[radtea.livejournal.com]

In Canada you can incorporate nationally online for a grand total of $220 (that's about $180 to you.) And if you live in most provinces, the required provincial filings are done automagically as part of the federal filing. I have literally incorporated in my pyjamas (is that too much information?)

:-D

It can take a few days to read over the instructions to ensure you understand what you're doing, but it's really just a matter of RTFM and you're good to go.

[ruthling.livejournal.com]

There's gotta be a decent joke in "I incorporated in my pajamas" but all I can think of is "and boy are my arms tired" which isn't very good.

[prog.livejournal.com]

It's pretty much the case here too, except for the thrice-as-expensive part. (It varies by state; Massachusetts knows damn well how fertile it is for startups and charges dearly for the privilege.) I am going through this runaround in an attempt to save some money by doing things out of the "laziest" order and thus avoiding having to update any earlier filings with new information, which costs like $100 a pop. Ugh.

[cortezopossum.livejournal.com]

Typed? Typed? It's getting harder and harder to find an actual working typewriter these days. The computer lab I used to go to had one in the corner for some reason (maybe for typing envelopes). They actually put a sign on it [Typewriter] -- Either someone went 'sign happy' or maybe some people weren't sure what it was.

[prog.livejournal.com]

That was my first thought, too. Fortunately they thought to put interactive text fields on the PDF so I "typed" in my answers that way.

What's funny is that I didn't know that PDFs could have form fields like that, and I stumbled into them as I was preparing to export the document as an image, and then use GraphicConverter to overlay Courier-font responses on the lines. :)