How to Incorporate


Recent How to Incorporate Articles

Choosing the Right Legal Form

By Jay Ebben, Ph.D. |  Jan 1, 2005

What legal form your business takes can have significant implications on your personal risk in the business as well as your potential for financial returns.  Read more

Fancy-Sounding Tax Hurts S Corps.

By Darren Dahl |  Jan 1, 2005

Millionaires beware!  Read more

How I Did It: Chip Davis

By Chip Davis |  Dec 1, 2004

The music business didn't particularly want him. The feeling was mutual.  Read more

Sizing Up Business Structures

By Michael J. Oates CPA |  Nov 1, 2004

The structure you choose for your business affects your business' bottom line.  Read more

Happy Together

By Dimitra Kessenides |  Nov 1, 2004

Many business partnerships end in disaster. Yours doesn't have to.  Read more

How I Did It: Caroline Hirsch

By Caroline Hirsch |  Nov 1, 2004

From Jerry Seinfeld to Jay Leno, scores of standup comics have cut their teeth on the stage that Caroline Hirsch built.  Read more

It's Not Easy Being Green

By Jess McCuan |  Nov 1, 2004

Jeffrey Hollender and Alan Newman disagreed about strategy, fought bitterly -- and created two successful companies. They'd set out to change the world, but ...  Read more

Acronym Acrimony

By Melanie Warner |  Oct 1, 2004

Along with naming your company, deciding which entity your business should become is one of the first decisions you'll ever make.  Read more

How to Work With a Partner (Year After Year After Year)

By Patrick J. Sauer |  Oct 1, 2004

Advice from Penn Jillette of the comedy team Penn & Teller on how to create a partnership that endures.  Read more

How To Work (If You Must) With Your Spouse

By Michael S. Hopkins |  Oct 1, 2004

The challenges of working with a spouse are many. Here's how to overcome them.  Read more

Ask Inc.

Aug 1, 2004

How to jump-start sales.  Read more

State of Incorporation

By Darren Dahl |  Jul 1, 2004

A few years ago, Makeba Boulware and her husband started, B-WISE, a small health and wellness brokerage as a side business to supplement their full-time j...  Read more

Thinking Inside theBox

By Nadine Heintz |  Jul 1, 2004

Geraldine Laybourne of the Oxygen channel has finally discovered what women want -- perhaps to her chagrin, definitely to her profit.  Read more

Is My Partnership Fair?

Jul 1, 2004

Is my partnership fair? Plus: Protecting your bright ideas; and buying versus leasing new technology.  Read more

Structure Your Business with Tax Breaks in Mind

By Terri Cullen |  Nov 1, 2003

For self-employed workers, the question of how to structure their small business has become a bit less perplexing with the advent of the new personal-inco...  Read more

What Kind of Business Should Your Business Be?

By Rhonda Abrams |  Sep 1, 2003

The form of incorporation you choose will affect the taxes you pay, who can invest in your company, and your financial security.  Read more

Goodwill for Your Ex

By Mike Hofman |  Sep 1, 2003

Should 'goodwill' be considered divisible property in divorce cases?  Read more

Alliances in Consumer Goods

Jul 2, 2003

By John D. Cook, Tammy Halevy, and C. Brent Hastie These days, global corporations routinely tie up 20 percent or more of their assets in ...  Read more

IRS Watch: Tax News You Can Use Now

By Ilan Mochari |  Jan 1, 2003

Thanks to new legislation, small businesses just might be singing in the spring rain this year.  Read more

The Absolutist

By Leigh Buchanan |  Dec 1, 2002

If you want to work with Laura Ricci, you have to do things her way. That means on-line.  Read more

This Year's Model

By Anne Stuart |  Dec 1, 2002

An old-line publisher morphs into an on-line star, discovering brand-new revenue sources in the process.  Read more

Striking Out on Your Own

By Carole Matthews |  Oct 30, 2002

Though going solo can be liberating, it can also be a frustrating experience. Here Inc.com offers resources to help combat some of the challenges of being se...  Read more

A Strategic Misalliance

By Christopher Caggiano |  Oct 15, 2002

What happens when the ideal partnership turns into a potential ethical nightmare?  Read more

Independents' Day

By Kate O'Sullivan |  Aug 1, 2002

Want to start your own revolution? It's easy. Just bring together a group of strong-willed entrepreneurs and form an alliance. Your independence may depend o...  Read more

United We Stand

By Susan Greco |  Jul 22, 2002

A checklist of effective collaboration criteria for solo practitioners.  Read more

The 2001 Inc Web Awards: Winners

By Inc. staff |  Nov 1, 2001

The winners of the third annual Inc Web Awards.  Read more

Why Dot-Coms Failed (And What You Can Learn from Them)

By Jamie Walters |  Sep 24, 2001

Headlines are rife with the tally of dotcoms that have "dot-bombed" or are in a downward spiral, not to mention the associated financial losses and human ...  Read more

And They're Off

By Tahl Raz |  Sep 1, 2001

The business drama of the Olympic competition.  Read more

Reaching Your Goals

By Rhonda Abrams |  Aug 2, 2001

Well I did it! Last year on my birthday, I promised myself I'd get certified for scuba diving before my next birthday rolled around, and I just did it. I'...  Read more

What Do I Want to Do?

By Rhonda Abrams |  Jul 26, 2001

Have you always wanted to be your own boss? Are you facing downsizing? Do you suddenly pay attention to late-night infomercials about making a fortune wor...  Read more

Planning is Dead? Long Live Planning!

By J. Peter Duncan |  Jul 24, 2001

A year ago the New Economy could do no wrong. Everything seemed to be charging ahead carrying each new company higher than the previous. In the crazy year...  Read more

Finding the Perfect Business Partner

Jul 9, 2001

Hewlett and Packard. Sears and Roebuck. Johnson and Johnson . T...  Read more

The On-Line Gourmet

By Anne Stuart |  Jul 1, 2001

Enjoy fine dining? Our panel of well-fed CEOs rates Web sites geared for the bistro-loving business traveler.  Read more

One Man, One Computer, 1,431 Lawn Mowers

By Jill Hecht Maxwell |  Jun 15, 2001

A garden-tool distributor rakes it in by carefully deciding what he needs to do himself -- and what he doesn't.  Read more

Changing Channel Distribution Models in the Internet Age

Jun 11, 2001

While the recent meltdown of the dot-com sector has raised concerns about Internet business models in general, there is little doubt that "channel power" ...  Read more