Forming a Company
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A Warning About Partnerships Are you considering a business partnership with someone outside of your family? Any business lawyer will likely immediately speak up about the complexities and high failure rates of partnerships. In my experience, what usually goes sideways in business partnerships are the following:... |
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Naming Your Startup - Part II I came across a blog that had another good take on naming a company (see Naming Your Startup - Part I): What’s in a company name? Plenty. It’s your first opportunity to brand yourself. Get it right and you’ll stand out as clever, useful, and memorable to potential users and investors... |
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Naming Your Startup - Part I Fifteen years ago when I was getting ready to name my first company, I was really at a loss on how to go about the process. Back then there was no such thing as Google and startup blogs and I had nowhere to turn for help for being creative and since I am not nearly as gifted on the... |
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Which Business Entity is Right for You? Business Week recently ran an excellent article on the different forms of legal business entities and the advantages of each... Room To Grow S corporations, C corps, LLCs�wading through the alphabet soup of incorporation options is one of your move important early business moves Your idea is... |
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Should I Buy Into This Franchise? I am a Christian and college graduate with eighteen years of financial services experience. I am considering a franchise opportunity in senior care, but the franchisor (a friend) has yet to document the entire business opportunity and is offering me a discounted beta rate to be his first... |
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Evaluating a Franchise Opportunity If one does not have an entrepreneurial personality, but a good work effort, are franchise ownership a reasonable direction? How does one evaluate franchising? ... |
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For Profit or Non-Profit Company Structure? In terms of a ministry, how does one decide whether to make one's idea/model non-profit or profit and can you have an endeavor be both profit and non-profit (one part profit, one part not-for-profit)? ... |
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A Framework To Evaluate Yoking Concerns As a former executive, I am considering establishing a consultancy in my field. I hope to license and adapt some educational and management training materials for use in my consulting. The entrepreneurs who have developed the materials and methods are not believers, but I would... |
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Legal Structure for Home-Based Business Which legal structure is best for a home-based business?... |
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Legal Formation Costs How can I avoid unnecessary legal cost when establishing or forming my company?... |
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Creating a Logo Can you offer any tips on how I go about creating a logo for my company? ... |
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Tax Advantages of a Sole Proprietorship What are the tax advantages of using the sole proprietorship structure for a family business?... |
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Sole Proprietorship Set-Up Checklist What steps do I need to take to set up a sole proprietorship?... |
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Choosing Between Legal Structures How should I go about choosing which legal structure is right for my new business? ... |
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All About Sole Proprietorships Can you please tell me more about Sole Proprietorships?... |
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All About Partnerships Can you please tell me more about Partnerships?... |
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All About Corporations Can you please tell me more about Corporations?... |
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Proverbs 14:23 "In all labor there is profit, but idle chatter leads only to poverty." – Prov 14:23 (NKJV) ... |
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