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Company setup, costs, tools and fundraising for founders in the US, Canada and Australia. Every fee is sourced and every price is dated. Written founder to founder by Saksham Dogra.
Every few months a startup announces it is the fastest ever to $100M ARR. They are rarely measuring the same thing. Here are nine claims, each traced to the company's own words, with the starting line and the metric spelled out.
Nov 7, 2026 · 8 min read
Banks want to know who can sign for your company. In a Delaware corporation the Secretary answers that. A Delaware LLC has no Secretary, so the member or manager does. Two templates, four filled samples.
Nov 4, 2026 · 9 min read
A US client wants a W-8BEN-E, not a certificate of residency. Clients and tax offices in other treaty countries are the ones who ask for a COR. Here is how to get one from the CRA or the ATO, with sample wording you can copy.
Nov 4, 2026 · 10 min read
Kit sellers charge for a binder of blank forms. This one is free, cites the section of each Act behind every tab, and covers federal, Ontario and BC corporations.
Nov 4, 2026 · 9 min read
Afterpay processed A$0.27 million of sales in June 2015. Six years later Square agreed to buy it for US$29 billion in stock, and by closing day those shares were worth US$13.9 billion. Here is how it grew, from its own ASX filings and Block's SEC documents.
Nov 4, 2026 · 8 min read
Stripe launched publicly in September 2011 with about 100 users. In 2025, businesses on Stripe processed $1.9 trillion. Here is what moved the curve, in the Collisons' own words and Stripe's own numbers.
Nov 4, 2026 · 8 min read
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Banks want to know who can sign for your company. In a Delaware corporation the Secretary answers that. A Delaware LLC has no Secretary, so the member or manager does. Two templates, four filled samples.
Nov 4, 2026 · 9 min read
The state filing is the easy part. Here's the full order of work for a non-resident owner, with a checklist you can tick off and a consent you can sign.
Nov 2, 2026 · 10 min read
A generic single-member agreement covers the basics. This one adds the four clauses a founder living in Canada, Australia or anywhere else actually needs, plus a filled sample you can compare against.
Nov 2, 2026 · 9 min read
Paying a developer in Toronto or Sydney? You usually file no 1099 at all. Get the right W-8 on file, and know the cases where the rules flip.
Oct 31, 2026 · 9 min read
'Wait for All Inputs to Arrive' means exactly that: if one branch sends zero items, the Merge node waits forever. Here's how to tell which of five causes you have, and the fix for each.
Nov 4, 2026 · 10 min read
Telegram gives each bot exactly one HTTPS webhook. Nearly every dead Telegram Trigger comes down to that URL being wrong, insecure or overwritten, and one API call tells you which.
Nov 4, 2026 · 8 min read
Most dead production webhooks come down to one of nine causes, and the error body n8n sends back usually tells you which one.
Nov 2, 2026 · 6 min read
Every n8n agent run has two bills, and which one matters depends on the model: $0.85 vs $17 per 1,000 turns between a small and a frontier model.
Oct 29, 2026 · 9 min read
Gemini is no longer a paid add-on. The real decision is the tier: Starter gets Gemini in Gmail and Vids, and Standard at $14 adds Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drive, Meet and Chat.
Oct 31, 2026 · 9 min read
The platform fee on the pricing page is one of five bills. Count speech-to-text, the LLM, the voice and the phone line, and most agents land at $0.09 to $0.21 a minute.
Oct 28, 2026 · 9 min read
All three start around $20 a month, but what that $20 buys is very different. If you code with an agent all day, a flat plan beats an API key.
Oct 28, 2026 · 9 min read
Cursor's subscription no longer includes Claude or GPT usage. Premium at $30 is still the plan most developers need, and if Claude or GPT is all you want, their own $20 plans cost less.
Oct 28, 2026 · 8 min read
A US client wants a W-8BEN-E, not a certificate of residency. Clients and tax offices in other treaty countries are the ones who ask for a COR. Here is how to get one from the CRA or the ATO, with sample wording you can copy.
Nov 4, 2026 · 10 min read
Kit sellers charge for a binder of blank forms. This one is free, cites the section of each Act behind every tab, and covers federal, Ontario and BC corporations.
Nov 4, 2026 · 9 min read
A Toronto or Sydney startup billing a US company normally charges 0% GST. You still may have to register, and you still claim back the GST you pay. Here is where the rule breaks.
Oct 31, 2026 · 7 min read
TN is the easiest US work status a Canadian can get, and the worst one for a founder. The rule is one sentence in the federal regulations. Here is what it means for your startup.
Oct 31, 2026 · 6 min read
Every few months a startup announces it is the fastest ever to $100M ARR. They are rarely measuring the same thing. Here are nine claims, each traced to the company's own words, with the starting line and the metric spelled out.
Nov 7, 2026 · 8 min read
Afterpay processed A$0.27 million of sales in June 2015. Six years later Square agreed to buy it for US$29 billion in stock, and by closing day those shares were worth US$13.9 billion. Here is how it grew, from its own ASX filings and Block's SEC documents.
Nov 4, 2026 · 8 min read
Stripe launched publicly in September 2011 with about 100 users. In 2025, businesses on Stripe processed $1.9 trillion. Here is what moved the curve, in the Collisons' own words and Stripe's own numbers.
Nov 4, 2026 · 8 min read
Element AI was meant to be Canada's AI champion. Four years after its record Series A, ServiceNow bought it for its researchers and wound down the business. Here is what went wrong, sourced to SEC filings, the sale circular and a co-founder's own account.
Nov 4, 2026 · 8 min read