Well ya, That's easy to say if you are working, but 25k is a pretty huge amount in India for youngsters.

Since we are talking about software startups here and making it possible to start easy and quick, it might be better to save money by doing it on your own (just take a ride in the morning to trouble the officers there everyother day, until they get fed up and get your work done). By this time, you can also prototype the product/service you are developing. Sometime(3-4yrs) back I did find a guy who advertised on paper that he would do it for 3k(around $75). I don't remember the company type though.

And he also did mention that a lot of it would actually go to officers under the table to speed up the process(=normal time) or else it would be dragged a lot. I heard it's called "paper weight" in India. If it's somewhere around 3k/$75 to get it done by a pro at this stuff, it's way cheap and time saving than doing it yourself.

P.S: I also did have this idea of incorporating a dummy corp in Delaware(US) or Nevada. Thought that would work out cheaper.

well he paid a little bit on higher side. its normally less than 10k (i paid round 8k). Let me know in case you need contact who can do in India area.

in case you want a simple partnership then it can be done for 1k-2k but it has full liability

I did the same, except it's been a month and I am still waiting for the documents to arrive. Director registration took a week and then name verification itself took another couple of weeks. :(

How much does it cost to pay an 'agent' to help it through the process?