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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eosin the Red" data-source="post: 1453671" data-attributes="member: 168">The Name of that TuneWhat is the Name of that Tune?The first real conversation after “Dude that is Kewl” turned to one of “Ok, what do we do now?” When going into business you have to consider many things, none of which my degree in nursing prepared me for. Let us review them quickly:1.    A name?2.    Start up funding.3.    What do you mean S or C, perhaps an L.L.C. or dba? The gritty world of incorporation.4.    State of origin, federal id numbers.5.    Corporate organization.6.    The Power of the Law – yeap, got to speak with a lawyer.7.    Point of sale? PDF or Print and the costs for each.8.    Work for hire or freelance for art and writing.9.    Contracts? I don’t know nothing about contracts.10.    Need a webpage.11.    Hey that is a cool webpage, is it OGL and d20 STL compliant.12.    Speaking of OGL – have you read it lately and do you understand it?13.    Product schedule.14.    Speaking of product – what the heck are we going to write.1. This was the initial conversation between Quillon and myself. We did settle on a name – Pencil Pushers Publishing. There were several others and several variants considered but in the end this seemed like a good name that could scale well. I really wanted to avoid the feel of a small PDF company. Did it work?2. Start up funding – well, I scrounged together several hundred dollars.[Pitifully short sighted for all of our start up expenses. I needed a PDF program, Domain Name, Money for Maps, Money for artists, Editors, and Layout folks. Now it is time to go talk to my investors (yes, believe it or not I have an investor – I have been putting this one off since I don’t know what kind of deal to offer him.)]Side notes: It was helpful to read the PDF forum here and the Freelancers forum at RPG.net. The best tool however is the 19.95 PDF from RPG now called <a href="http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=1668" target="_blank">e-publishing</a>.     Now that I had some of the questions, it was time to do some research to find some of the answers. In the mean time, I needed to get a logo design and settle on the web design. I also needed a few computer programs – pagemaker 7.0, I did some DTP with Pagemaker 6.0 several years ago – I hope the learning curve is not that steep. The second big hickey was Photoshop. These two, plus the various $20.00 nickel and diming items have busted the bankroll. The 12th-15th were spent embroiled in these decisions and reading up on the various forums about publishing. E-Publishing answered many of the questions and is an invaluable resource. The other great resource is reading the sometimes boring technical conversations on the PDF forums here at ENworld. Many of the folks are helpful and if you read many of your questions have already been answered.I am still in the process of answering many of the other questions. I can say that Pencil Pushers website will come online the 7th of April and that we will be offering a introductory free product.Find out what happens when I make first contact with the enemy (that would be the artsy guys).Three or four more of these and I should be up to current time.</blockquote>

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