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All LLC-creation paperwork filed, and pound of flesh paid. (And I'm not convinced I'm done yet; the state can basically charge whenever they want for however much they want, like the completely unexplained $20 "expedited service fee" that attached itself to the base $500 filing fee. Man, I hate these guys.) Now I guess I just wait for a response.

I guess in the interim I could start thinking about what else I want to accomplish this month besides filling in paperwork and writing painful checks.

Andy Looney sold a single friggin Magic card for $519 [eBay link will die in a few days]. And that's just one of a bunch of cards he's been selling, one by one, for months. I can't believe I let my whole collection go four years ago for $100 or something, and it had some beauts in it. (Shivan dragon, sigh.) I guess I needed the money then, but... if I had known that I could peel 'em off one at a time just a few years later to help fund my own startup? Man. Good for Andy & Looney Labs, though.

Threaded | Flat

A Little Bit of Knowledge is a Dangerous Thing Dept.: with <4 minutes of research on corporations (too much other work to do!), I'll ask this--could you incorporate in a sleezy "pro-business" leech state like Nevada or Delaware, or would then registering as a foreign corporation with Mass. be too much of a nuisance (and like, would the Mass. IRS investigate you, etc.)?

My kids have been buying Magic cards on eBay for a couple of years--there are deals to be had if you're patient and lucky. Some Russian guy was selling off odd lots of 15 cards a while ago that had some hidden gems. I'm figuring it'll pay for their college :-)