The charter is signed, the state registration number (OGRN) is in hand and the website is almost ready. It feels like you can start selling. In fact, the company is not protected yet. The code and design may belong to someone else. The request form on your site already counts as collecting personal data. The company owes contributions for the director even if no salary is paid.
These questions are not equally urgent, and the easiest way to sort them is into groups.
Three packages of documents:
- corporate: registration and agreements among the founders;
- HR: employees and their personal data;
- commercial: clients and contractors.
Within each package, documents are ordered by urgency: before the first revenue, before the first employee and once the business has grown.
What Does a Company Risk Without These Documents?
What most often comes up at the start:
- the rights to code, design and texts stay with the freelancer;
- a price error on the site turns into a dispute with a buyer;
- violations involving personal data lead to fines that can reach millions of rubles for a company;
- the contract with the first employee does not secure the company’s rights to the code that employee writes;
- contributions for the director turn out higher than you planned.
Each risk is closed once, and it is better to do it before the first revenue.
What Is in the Guide “Documents for Launching a Business”?
The guide collects everything you need to do at the start, step by step and with ready-made templates.
Inside:
- an 18-point checklist by three levels of urgency: before the first revenue, before the first employee and once the business has grown;
- a breakdown of each item: how to do it step by step, typical mistakes, what a gap can cost;
- a plan for the first 30 days after registration;
- nine templates: the decision appointing a director, an agreement assigning rights to code and design, a website offer, a personal data policy, two consents for a website form, an assignment of duties with a completion act, a policy on employees’ data and a confidentiality agreement for contractors;
- a memo “A director with no employees”.
All materials are in Russian, because that is the language of Russian authorities, banks and notaries. The guide and the checklist come as files for reading, and the templates as a Word file you can fill in.
For the price of the guide you get what costs noticeably more in individual work with a lawyer. And you can use it many times: for the next contractor, a new project or a new company.
Who Is the Guide For?
Those who recently registered a Russian LLC or are about to, who have or soon will have a website that takes payments, and whose product is built by freelancers.
The guide is built for the launch and the first months of work. If your business has long run with a formal staff, part of the items are already closed.
How Do You Get the Guide?
Open the guide page. It has the price, the contents and buttons to write to me by e-mail or WhatsApp, with the message already filled in. In reply I will send the payment details and the terms of use, and I will send the guide within a business day after payment.