How to Incorporate


How to Choose the Right Legal Structure

If you are starting a business, or you already run one but haven't thought strategically about its legal structure--S Corp, C Corp, or LLC--you need to take this matter seriously.

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Structuring Equity at an LLC

A reader asks, What are the best practices for structuring equity as part of the compensation package at a limited liability partnership, or LLC?

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Sole Proprietors Make Less But Pay Less Taxes

Report examines the impact of taxes on various corporate structures.

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Getting By with a Little Help from Their Friends

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Here's a step-by-step process for turning a good idea for a new invention into a financial success.  Read story

And the Money Comes Rolling In

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(Almost) Endless Summer

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Innovation: How the Creative Stay Creative

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How to Keep Joint Projects Jumping

Benjamin Gomes-Casseres, a Brandeis University professor who has written several books on alliances, offers this advice for copacetic co-development.  Read story

Case Study: Could Organic Valley Thrive Without Wal-Mart?

Organic Valley couldn't sell enough milk to Wal-Mart. And that was the problem.  Read story