1. Trademark has been filed
2. State and federal tax and filings/also Incorporation filed
3. server redhat 7.2 p4 1.5ghz 768 ram 60 gb ide cpanel
4. merchant account
5. ssl cert pre-purchased
6. outsourcing support
7. advertising chosen and ready to start as soon as site is up and finished with tests
8. website 80% completed
9. tos/aup will be finished dec 12th
10. vbulletin license for forums purchased


Anything anyone can think of that was left out ?

A few additionals you may add:

11.) Billing software (ie., www.ModernBill.com)
12.) Help Desk (ie., www.PerlDesk.com)

13) A good business plan.
Other than that, it looks like you've done all the required research and will be very sucessful in this business.

Good luck,
-Dan

14) Some good luck

Thank you all for your help

Billing_ We are using quickbooks.
Support ticket will be handled by the company doing our support

Business plan is made up and ready to go.
Speaking of that I highly recommend Business Plan Pro 4.0 for anyone starting up or putting one together for investors. Really was a great program.


I have done hosting before with reseller accounts and always managed to do ok, But now I have the time and money to invest into it. And hopefully I can do pretty good. There is just so many hosts and not a whole lot of ways to be different.

=)

Originally posted by MarcD
Thank you all for your help

Billing_ We are using quickbooks.

=)

Ouch... Quickbooks. Been there, done that. It's alot more work then it seems. If you have any growth at all you'll spend all your time just managing the billing system.

You might want to look at a more specialized system like ubersmith or modernbill.

Other then that it looks like you've thought this through. Good luck and welcome to the fray. :)

Aaron