Mizu Financial

US business infrastructure for global founders.
Company, EIN, banking, payments, compliance.
From build to bill.

[Mizu Financial @MizuFinancial]

Glad to hear it helped 🙌

This is exactly why we built Mizu Financial — to make the full US business setup process easier for global founders: company formation, EIN, banking path, Stripe setup, and ongoing compliance, all in one guided flow

Less time dealing with fragmented steps, more time building and selling globally

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Early growth is usually very boring.
You find the rooms where your buyers already complain.
You answer the questions nobody wants to answer.
You turn every objection into content.
You do that long enough, and people start tagging you when someone asks for help.
That’s the first 100.

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Most startups don’t get their first 100 customers from a growth hack.

They get them from being annoyingly useful in the same few rooms.

Reddit. Discord. X. LinkedIn.

Answer the questions. Save the repeated pain points. Turn them into posts.

The community becomes your first distribution channel.

Ads can wait.

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The teams that hit their first 50 paying customers almost never had the nicest website. We thought that was a fluke until we'd seen it enough times.

Here's what was actually doing the work:

- a founder personally in the comments, answering real questions like a human
- one or two posts that got screenshotted and passed around
- a happy user dragging in the next one

Paid, SEO, all the "channels" people obsess over? Barely a factor that early. Those things scale what's already working. If nothing's working yet, scaling it just gets you more of nothing, faster.

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Pricing low to win customers is one of those things that sounds obvious and is usually wrong, at least selling globally.

What actually happens when you go cheap:

1. People assume something's off. "Why is this a third of everyone else?" is not the reaction you want when someone's deciding whether to trust you with their business.

2. Choice paralysis. More than three tiers and people stall out. Early buyers aren't patient, and a long pricing page is a great way to get someone to "think about it" forever.

3. Drop the monthly-only thing. Serious B2B buyers abroad expect an annual option. Hiding it doesn't make you look approachable, it makes you look like you might not be around next year.

If ranking the stuff founders get wrong in year one, pricing is top three every time.

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@TomTurcotteTech This is awesome! We started with something small that really hits the client's pain points and then let it grow from there.

[Mizu Financial @MizuFinancial]

Nobody's first 100 customers came from a growth hack. We've looked. It's almost always the same loop:

1. Go where your people already hang out. Some Reddit thread, some Discord server, some X community.+linkedin

2. Be the person who actually answers the annoying questions. Don't pitch. Just be useful.

3. Whatever a user tells you, that's your next post.

That's it. You become a fixture in the room, and the room starts sending you customers. Buying ads before any of that is like turning on a billboard pointed at an empty highway.

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@Rosemar06376241 stay real

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A year ago this stack needed an engineering team. Now one or two people run all of it.

The setup we keep coming back to, early stage:

Design. Claude Design. Describe what you want in a sentence, get a clickable prototype, hand the build package straight to the next step.

Dev. Claude Code, or Codex. It picks up the design and writes and ships from there. You don't have to code. Tell the agent what you want clearly and it does the work.

Deploy and infra. Cloudflare. One account covers hosting, database, storage, and email routing. One catch: running Next.js means turning on the $5/mo Workers paid plan, since the free tier can't fit the bundle. That $5 will outlast most startups.

Analytics. Search Console plus Clarity. Search Console is how you make sure Google can index you and track your search performance, set it up the day you launch. Clarity is the one you actually open every day. No instrumentation, paste a snippet and it records real sessions, so you see exactly where users get stuck and catch the UX holes.

Content. Early on you don't need a CMS. Hand the writing and the upkeep to an agent. Blog, docs, landing copy, all of it.

The rule for picking early tools hasn't changed. If you can't have it running this week, it's the wrong tool.

[Mizu Financial @MizuFinancial]

Your first overseas lead is going to Google you before they reply. That's just what happens now. And the stuff they're checking has nothing to do with whether your product is good:
- a real website that explains what you do in one read
- an email that isn't gmail
- a company name that actually exists on LinkedIn
It feels basic because it is. But that's the whole point. They don't know you yet, so they're using proxies. A clean site, a domain email, a LinkedIn page. These are cheap to fix and expensive to skip.

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@meathill1 We offer compliance services for the annual report and federal tax filings

[Mizu Financial @MizuFinancial]

Built the product. Got the users. Still can't get paid properly. Wyoming LLC, EIN, US bank account, Stripe. All of it, under $500.

[Mizu Financial @MizuFinancial]

Wyoming business formations grew 41.8% in 2025, with a vast majority being LLCs. Fastest of any US state. Most of that isn't big companies relocating.
It's solo founders who need a US entity to get paid and figured out Wyoming is where the economics work: $60/year, no state income tax, no franchise tax that scales with company size. The word got out.

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https://t.co/g2FJ8asXM7

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Most non-US founders worry about US taxes after forming an LLC. The bigger trap is the form nobody mentions: Form 5472.
Foreign-owned single-member LLCs have to file it every year, even with no real revenue. It's not a tax payment. It's an information return covering money movement between the company and its foreign owner.
Miss it and the penalty starts at $25,000.
Formation is day one of compliance, not the finish line.

[Mizu Financial @MizuFinancial]

Congrats on the new entity. Wyoming is a solid fit for a lot of lean teams building outside the VC-first path. If payments are next, it’s worth lining up the EIN, banking path, and Stripe setup early. Formation is step one. Getting operational is the part founders often underestimate. That’s a big part of what we help founders with at Mizu. Happy to compare notes if you’re working through that next step.

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Yes, you can form a Wyoming LLC without living in Wyoming.
You’ll need a Wyoming registered agent with a physical address there. A separate mailing address or PO Box can be elsewhere in the U.S., but it won’t replace the registered agent address.
Mizu can help with the Wyoming LLC setup and address side. If you need EIN, banking, or Stripe after that, we can help with those steps too.

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DAO LLC + bank onboarding can be a rough combo.
If banking is the main blocker right now, it may be worth looking at a standard Wyoming LLC for the operating side instead.
That’s exactly the path Mizu helps with: LLC formation, EIN, and the bank account opening process in one flow. Happy to point you in the right direction.

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Wyoming vs Delaware. I get asked this every week. Raising VC? Delaware.
Investors know it, the legal framework is standard for term sheets.
Not fundraising? Wyoming.
$60/year vs Delaware's $300 minimum. No state income tax. Member names stay off public filings.
Both states support US business banking and Stripe.
The difference is $240/year and whether your name shows up on a public filing.

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@ikotebak Greatness at what stage — product, or already collecting?;)

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