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A founder had already done the hard part. He had the capital ready, a lease identified for a small US office, a hiring plan for the first two employees, and a business plan detailed enough to survive scrutiny from most…
A profitable services business had been invoicing American clients straight out of India for years – no US entity, no complications – until one of its largest clients asked it to route payments through a US LLC instead of billing…
A founder we spoke with had his Delaware LLC sitting idle for four months. The company existed. The bank account didn’t. He’d tried the IRS online EIN tool, hit a wall when it asked for a Social Security Number he…
The founder had made no money. Not a dollar. He’d formed a US LLC eight months earlier, opened a bank account, moved a small amount of setup capital in from India, then done nothing else while he built the product.…
An Indian company we worked with had wired the first tranche of capital to its brand-new US subsidiary and moved on to hiring. Three months later it went back to send the next tranche – and its bank wouldn’t process…
Ask ten people where to form your US company, and nine will say Delaware. It’s the reflex answer – the one your US contact gives, the one the incorporation website nudges you toward. Then you see the bill. Delaware charges…
Most Indian founders celebrate the wrong milestone. The LLC gets registered in Delaware, the EIN comes through, the US bank account opens – and it feels done. Fourteen months later a letter arrives from the IRS. A $25,000 penalty for…
Three Indian founders sat across from us last quarter. All three had their US entities ready. All three had revenue. Two had board approval to relocate. None of them had thought about visas. One was planning to fly out on…
Three Indian founders walked into US LLC setups last quarter. Two are now staring at $25,000 penalty notices they did not know existed. One is not. Same business model, same revenue, same ambition. So what was the difference? A single…
166 billion dollars in tariff refunds are now underway. New tariffs are expected to return by July. The last few months have been a real-time lesson in how global trade actually works — and a reminder that the most useful…