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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. Write a company handbook.

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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 to Put Personal Money into Your Startup In 6 Steps

The Startup Magazine

A limited liability company status, for instance, will protect you from your business’s legal hurdles and their costs too. Money that is loaned to a venture in this manner should, therefore, be recorded properly so that you can receive your dues in time. 2. Set up a legal entity for your business.

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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

According to the Harvard Business Review, in most U.S. states for-profit companies can accept donations and nonprofit companies earn revenue, which dispels the myths that a nonprofit can’t make money, or a for-profit venture would miss out on donations. For-Profit Entities: L3Cs, or Low-Profit Limited Liability Company.

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Intellectual Property 101

Up and Running

When fundraising, preparing for due diligence upon exit or acquisition, or hiring employees and contractors, it is critical to have both a complete IP inventory and a strategy to monetize and protect your IP. Simply put, properly identified and protected IP increases the financial value of your company.

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How to Start a Business in a Month – #30DayChallenge

Up and Running

For example, Palo Alto Software focuses primarily on helping small businesses realize their dreams of starting a business. Many people reading this guide will already have an idea of what that is – perhaps a tutoring agency, or a restaurant, or a software company. Week 1 – Get the ball rolling.

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What to Do If Your Accountant Makes an Error

Up and Running

Choice of entity (C corporation, S corporation, or a limited liability company ) may affect how the company’s earnings will be taxed and how your assets are protected. Setting up financial software that tracks income and deductible expenses. Lenders will look carefully at these statements, so accuracy is critical.