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13 Critical Small Business Legal Requirements to Start a Business

Up and Running

Limited liability company (LLC) – A structure that combines the characteristics of both corporations and partnerships. It protects owners from their debts or liabilities, and each owner has to include a share of the profits/losses in their personal tax returns. Register your business name.

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Why Entrepreneurs Must Learn to Love Paperwork  

The Startup Magazine

There will be plenty of it early and often during your entrepreneurial journey, but rather than look at it as a headache you should consider the many ways in which it will help protect you, your family, and the company as a whole. Personal asset liability protection is not ironclad.

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Vlad Rigenco’s Tips for Launching a Successful Startup

The Startup Magazine

When people want to begin a startup company, there are several common-sense principles that they should follow. Vlad Rigenco offers 9 important tips on beginning a startup company and names some of the pitfalls that can happen along the way. Startup companies need to be based around an innovative idea. A Great Idea.

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Corporation or LLC? Business Organizations for Tech Startups.

YoungUpstarts

One of the first actions you will take with your startup is to organize your company a separate legal entity to protect yourself from personal liability for the company’s debts. In the tech startup context, you’ll typically choose between a Corporation and a Limited Liability Company (“LLC”).

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How Much A Startup Spends On Business Documents

The Startup Magazine

Many startup founders dive into their businesses without considering the costs of business documents. Register a DBA Name. The most elemental step in this process is both a legal requirement and a branding exercise, and that is selecting what is known as a “doing business as” (DBA) name. Limited Liability Company.

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10 Tips on Finding Legit Remote Jobs

Transformify

Going forward, it is expected that the number of all-remote companies will grow exponentially as many businesses and employees have realized the benefits of remote work. Even before coronavirus pandemic, investors were already asking tech startup founders ‘’What is your remote work strategy?’’ Do Your Research.

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5 Tips for Starting a Successful Clothing Brand: The Definitive Guide (2018)

crowdSPRING Blog

Shira Sue Carmi, the founder of Launch Collective, reminds us that the business of launching a clothing brand is as important as the artistry: Fashion is amazing in the way it balances art and commerce, but it’s a business. Your business name , your logo , your website design should all grow from the concepts you laid out here.