--- title: My New Startup Checklist | daily.dev description: The following presume that you are going for a typical US venture backed SaaS startup type situation. This is obviously a live situation so i will anneal this... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/my-new-startup-checklist-l84wsqnuv twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: My New Startup Checklist | daily.dev og:description: The following presume that you are going for a typical US venture backed SaaS startup type situation. This is obviously a live situation so i will anneal this... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/my-new-startup-checklist-l84wsqnuv og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/l84WSqNUV.png og:image:alt: My New Startup Checklist og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # My New Startup Checklist **[swyx](https://daily.dev/sources/swyx)** · [@swyx](https://daily.dev/swyx) · 3 min read · 26 upvotes · 5 comments ## Summary The following presume that you are going for a typical US venture backed SaaS startup type situation. This is obviously a live situation so i will anneal this post over time. Just use Stripe Atlas, which incorporates you as a Delaware C corp which is the default investable schelling point for all VCs. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@badmedicine** · 2 upvotes > Bad written and lacks information. > > Clearly the author didn't put much effort... **@fabooy961** · 1 upvotes > useless shit! **@eo4wellness** · 0 upvotes > When I saw this title recommended, I had no idea where it (or you) were going with it. Then I took a look. Seems to me like a TIL (today I learned) style post with the steps you are taking to begin your start up, which is seems you intent to update as you learn/go along in the process? **@kyoukhana** · 0 upvotes > When asking money from Venture capitalist what percentage you need to give up your company for. When starting a company you need to make sure that your application can scale according to business requirements and is flexible when business requirements change. Also marketing the product is most important thing. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-unveils-schedule-for-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-ikhcoa5cb) · CNCF · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Debuts KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-debuts-kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-schedule-xp5pyudub) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#startup](https://daily.dev/tags/startup), [#stripe](https://daily.dev/tags/stripe) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/my-new-startup-checklist-l84wsqnuv) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"My New Startup Checklist","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/my-new-startup-checklist-l84wsqnuv","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/my-new-startup-checklist-l84wsqnuv"},"datePublished":"2023-05-11T12:26:26.995Z","dateModified":"2023-07-20T14:10:56.027Z","description":"The following presume that you are going for a typical US venture backed SaaS startup type situation. 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