Python for Entrepreneurs Transcripts
Chapter: Making money (credit cards and businesses)
Lecture: US companies for people outside the US
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So you are thinking, well that's cool Michael, LLCs, S corps, US corporations, none of that applies to me
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because I live in the country X, where X is not in the United States. Now obviously many countries have similar corporate structures
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and similar types of protections. You might just want to choose whatever is local for you.
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There are sometimes, especially if you are looking to get venture capital and participate in some of the US markets that you might want to have
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a company that is set up and registered in the United States, with a US bank account that can accept credit card payments and things like that.
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That can be really challenging to get done if you live in some country, especially if you don't have good connections to the US,
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so Stripe again, Stripe the same people we are using for the credit cards
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came up with this thing called Atlas, and the idea is once you get into the Atlas program.
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they will help you set up and incorporate a US company set up a US bank account and accept payments as if you were a US company.
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So if you are outside of the US, but you want for whatever reason to be within the US as a business, check out stripe.com/atlas.