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so what you are saying is whether the website is a business or not depends on whether I disclose details of what the website is all about...you shouldnt need all the specific details to tell whether it is a business or not..else it is like if the policy says non americans need visa and I tell...

Well short of giving you the whole business plan, I can only say that it has to do with local transactions and even though the websites that are currently out there could possibly do it but because it requires local contact they have not done so far (and may take years to get here) and so I...

Well I did not say that...I can only say that even though such business exist in other parts of the country they are not in my place and thus this website will not be taking away business from anyone at least until someone follows me and starts a competing website. In that case is the website...

The underlying assumption you are making when you say that volunteering (working on a free website in my case) takes away business from someone is that such a business currently exists that can provide the service and thus you are taking away business from them. As far as taking away job...

So if a website only provided information and possibly disussion forums, of course for free with no intent of making money ever, where would that fall - business or a personal website. Based on the Crraigs list example I would argue that it should not be considered a business but I would like to...

OK. So this leads to me to believe that all websites are businesses and they should all be registered as businesses because they all could potentially be bought by someone even if the owner never intended to sell them. For instance if I created a personal website which had interesting set of...

I understand that to play it safe would be the best option where I should be an investor and hire someone else to do the work. But lets consider a hypothetical situation: what if the service is free forever. Would it still be considered a business? Next, what if someone buys the website from...

I am impressed by the answers I have found on this forum and would like to pose one question of my own. Before I do that, I would like to state that after going through the forum I understand that on an H1B visa I can invest in a business but cannot work for it. Here are my questions: 1) If...