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Re:Ask HN: How much can I sell my company for? on Tuesday February 28, 2012 @05:02PM (#3645238)
Last I looked into it, it was valid in most European courts and the exception was U.K. and U.S. who have an extra layer of extortion above the Berne Convention which requires registration with their system in order to be accepted into the court. Spain, Italy and the others accept what MFC provides and is why there are a ton of services started in these countries like the following: http://www.dmca.com/ http://easytimestamping.com/ http://www.safecreative.org/ http://myows.com/ https://depotcode.com/
Re:Ask HN: How much can I sell my company for? on Tuesday February 28, 2012 @03:41PM (#3644873)
It is a legit non-repudiation service that is legally valid. It can be used in most countries court system and follows Berne Convention. I've got most of it covered in the FAQ and more information can be seen here: https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&#...

Thanks for the advice thou.

Re:Ask HN: How much can I sell my company for? on Tuesday February 28, 2012 @03:31PM (#3644835)
All my stats are legit. Also the SEO is pure and natural growth from a site that has been around almost 6 years. I mentioned that some creative SEO tactics could be used with all the content, but I've never done that. I've added my contact to my profile...if your interested in the site, please contact me offline.
Re:Ask HN: How much can I sell my company for? on Tuesday February 28, 2012 @02:28PM (#3644534)
What are some common things that could happen that would cause this site from increasing it's revenue monthly? I can show steady, monthly growth in all metrics for the past 3 years. It continues to earn more and captures more users which display the badge on their site and this continues the snowball growth. Is this not valuable?
Re:Ask HN: How much can I sell my company for? on Tuesday February 28, 2012 @12:14PM (#3643896)
That's what I make in a year on ads for the site. Wouldn't there be a multiplier on a sale? It keeps increasing pageviews, uniques and users per month because of the viral loop.

Ask HN: How much can I sell my company for?

I created a site back in 2006 to teach myself rails and it is now a #1 Google Ranked PR5 site. It has a strong viral loop and continues to grow at an exponential rate because of this. It's profitable and requires no work to maintain. The details of my sale sheet can be downloaded here: http://myfreecopyright.com/sale_sheet.pdfHow much do you think I can sell this for?

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Re:Ask HN: How to structure an LLC for giving out equity on Saturday April 16, 2011 @12:15PM (#2454217)
I would also suggest using an S-Corp instead of an LLC. It gives you the same benefits and flexibility as an LLC with pass thru profits and such but you can create shares more easily.

As far as paying your writers with equity, I like this approach defined in this article: http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/2009/05/building-your-team...

It talks about forming a contract where you will pay them double there hourly rate which they can then buy equity with it once the business gets it's first valuation.