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Ask YC: Canadian, Set up US Office?

3 points by comforteagle ↗ HN
Anyone know how a foreign company, Canadian in my case, goes about setting up a US based company? My purpose is to be able to use all the great services out there (YPN for instance) that are only available to "US Citizens or Companies".

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ecommercematt
YPN?
comforteagle
Yahoo Publisher Network. Adsense from yahoo. Their contextual ads are supposedly not as good as goog's but the eCPMs are reported to be much better.
ekanes
Accounting aside, just wanted to mention that most of these barriers are whether you have a US-residence credit card, or bank account, not so much about where you or the company actually live.

Not sure it's worth incorporating a company (which may involve foreign ownership accounting hassles) to handle it.

You might want to try to get a bank account or CC in the states, and fund it personally, and just not get the business deduction for it. I did that with Amazon's services, before they accepted credit cards.

Hope that helps and good luck with it.

comforteagle
"You might want to try to get a bank account or CC in the states, and fund it personally, and just not get the business deduction for it. I did that with Amazon's services, before they accepted credit cards."

How did you manage to do this?!?!? A friend in the US?