Book Description
"One of the best business books of the year!" -Library Journal
Includes the Limited Liability Company
The Bestselling Guide to Incorporating Your Business-Updated and Expanded for the New Millennium
- Should I Incorporate?
- Which Form of Corporation Is Best for My Business and Long-term Goals?
- What Additional Legal Liabilities Do I Assume When I Incorporate?
- What Are the Tax Laws Concerning Corporations and How Do I Take Full Advantage of Them?
- How Do I Form a Corporation?
Get detailed answers to these and every other question you have about incorporating your business in How to Incorporate, Fourth Edition. Attorneys Michael Diamond and Julie Williams weigh the pros and cons of incorporating and help you choose the form of corporation that's best for you. They tell you how to structure your corporation for maximum legal, tax, and business advantage. And they supply you with a gold mine of sample forms-including tax forms and preincorporation, shareholder, and voting trust agreements-along with step-by-step instructions on how to fill them out.
Covering all the latest changes in the laws regarding corporations and partnerships, and featuring a critical new chapter on the limited liability company, How to Incorporate, Fourth Edition gives you the most up-to-the-minute information, advice, and guidance on:
- When to form a standard incorporation and when to go with an alternative, such as Subchapter S, partnerships, limited liability companies, and proprietorships
- How to make statutory requirements work to your advantage
- Executive compensation and how to take tax-free benefits out of your corporation
- How to handle special agreements, securities laws, forms of incorporation, stockholders, dividends, and more
- How to complete IRS forms, take minutes, create bylaws, and post notices of meetings
- How to use incorporation forms for many different states as well as forms for general use based on the Model Business Corporation Act
. . . and much more to give you the how, why, and when of incorporating in today's fast-paced business world.
Customer Reviews:
Good book on incorporating your business.......2003-12-01
How to Incorporate is an excellent book to show the average guy how to incorporate. It is an easy read and packed with good information.
Some other books you will want to read are Form Your Own Corporation and Launch a Business In Any State by J.W. Dicks, Inc. Yourself by Judith McQuown and Incorporating Your Business for Dummies by The Company Corporation. For more information on S-Corporations, How To Form A S-Corporation by Robert Cooke is the best book that I have found and the one most recommended by successfult business people.
Technical and Well Rounded.......2001-03-16
This book is basically a textbook, as it contains a lot of the details that are common to incorporation in any state. While the authors have stayed general enough to remain in an interstate appeal, they have still covered almost every legal aspect of incorporating, WITHOUT giving advice as to what you should do. Also covered are: sole proprietorships and limited liability coporations/partnerships and more. Good buy if you want a good cursory understanding of business vehicles. I recommend it. Please vote if this did help you.
An excellent addition to any entrepreneurýs library.......2000-07-06
This book is excellent! I have a Ph.D. and an MBA and have taken a lot of courses and read lots of books, business and otherwise. This text summarizes a lot of important information into a small book. This is not for simpletons, rather it gives important information for anyone wishing to incorporate.
Covers important topics, a little confusingly written.......1999-04-15
It's really helpful in that it covers a bunch of the basic points. Ironically, I wish it focused on the tax implications of losses (to be expected in startups) as much profits :). I also found some of the writing confusing -- like in covering LLCs, it compares some facets of them to other corporate before really explaining how they work. But I liked the book, thinking it basically helps me have a more informed conversation with a lawyer, which I think is essential (since regulations change so fast, and can be state-specific).
Gave me some basic ideas on incorporating our small business.......1997-06-04
It answered a lot of questions I had about incorporating our small business. However, it would be an even better book had there been a chapter dedicated to what can be written off along with what percentage of the total cost or value of things. This always seems to be a gray area. Overall, it was a very informative book
Book Description
Limited liability companies (LLCs) are a hybrid business form that combines owner liability protection similar to that of a corporation with the tax treatment and administrative ease of a partnership. To help business owners access the protections of LLCs without the burdens and formalities of forming a corporation, this easy-to-use book/CD-ROM package explains how to get started and maintaining a LLC, with detailed requirements for every state.
Customer Reviews:
Great book for starting an LLC with no idea where to start.......2006-06-30
The book broke each step down into easy-to-understand instructions. Great inforamtion on each State. Documents are also included for every aspect of the business (contracts, letters, HR forms...). I am now a partner in an LLC and it was a painless process thanks to this book.
Book Description
A strategic guide that arms business owners with ways to escape the growing cost of workers’ compensation insurance
Workers’ compensation insurance adds up to a huge, yet unavoidable, expense for businesses of all sizes. Edward J. Priz has discovered and reclaimed more than $10 million of workers’ compensation overcharges for his clients, and now he offers the same professional advice to his readers. This easy-to-understand guide:
- Enables readers to spot mistakes and stand up to insurance companies
- Translates complicated technical concepts and industry jargon into simple English
- Offers a concise explanation of industry practices that directly affect the costs of insurance, with insight on how to make sure a coverage plan is set up accurately
- Provides detailed information about each state’s unique rules and regulations, and explains how coverage plans differ
Ultimate Guide to Workers’ Compensation Insurance provides a behind-the-scenes look at this complicated issue and puts control back into the hands of business owners. Its countless money-saving tactics could save many small businesses from having to shut their doors.
Customer Reviews:
Very well written introduction to Worker's Compensation.......2007-03-08
I was looking for a good introduction to worker's compensation and I'm glad that I settled on this book. It's very well written and organized and I've already recommended it to a few colleagues.
Everything you need to know about Work Comp.......2007-01-12
If you are in business and have any significant worker's compensation premium. You need this book. I wish that I would have read it 10 years ago.
Best Information.......2006-08-12
This book describes in detail information I have never gotten from my insurance agent. It gives you a detailed insight into the world of workers' compensation and has been very useful in helping me to make sure that what we do as a company is under the right classification. It would have been difficult to argue our case without the knowledge I obtained from this book. Worth every penny!
Very good introduction to WC.......2006-03-22
I ordered this book to get an overview of the Workers Compensation Insurance Industry. This book is very good to get a glimpse of the WC Industry and provides the most important data. I recommend this book for everyone who wants to get basic information on the Industry.
Nightmares.......2006-02-26
This book is an excellent review of the current system of workers compensation coverages. It is dead-on accurate in its description of the potholes one can encounter - NCCI ratings, premium audits and others. I thought Mr. Priz was generous in his kindness to auditors and underwriters, who are the source of most of the problems and also the solution to most of the problems.
I am going to buy several copies for my clients.
Book Description
Clear, comprehensive advice from an intellectual property lawyer--for every artist, inventor, and small business owner.
Today, virtually all companies, artists, and innovators run the risk of losing their competititve edge-and big money-by not adequately safeguarding their intellectual property. Written by an expert in intellectual property law, this is the first book to address the full range of legal protections available-patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and licensing-with innovative information you won't find elsewhere, including:
€ Legal landmines every successful entrepreneur must avoid
€ Business practices that can be
protected-but are often overlooked
€ Protecting your intellectual property on the Internet
€ What are your ideas and the rights to them really worth?
€ Why trade secrets are a powerful and under-utilized protection
€ Lessons learned from Amazon.com, Microsoft, and other elite entrepreneurs
€ How even smart, savvy AOL lost exclusive trademarks, including "YOU'VE GOT MAIL!"
The Entrepreneur's Guide to Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks, Trade Secrets and Licensing is the definitive guide for the entrepreneur and innovator who is ready to protect what he or she has created-a
Customer Reviews:
Excellent Coverage of the Subject Matter.......2007-09-24
This is a wonderful book. For starters, it's well written, nicely organized, and easy to read. Just as important, it's targeted to entrepreneurs and does a great job of focusing on the issues that relate to starting and growing a new business venture -- rather than simply covering the technicalities of patent drafting, for example.
Perhaps the most valuable contribution this book can make for most entrepreneurs, especially those involved in technology-based ventures, is that it provides a strong foundation for conversations with an attorney. At the end of the day, most of us rely on the expert counsel of a patent attorney (or corporate attorney specializing in licensing transactions, for example). Being prepared to ask the right questions, present the relevant information, etc. is invaluable. It is also cost-effective. Beyond the simple fact that you'll learn a lot by reading this book, if you're using (paying for) patent counsel in any US city this book will pay for itself in about 10 minutes or less.
Steven K. Gold
Author, Entrepreneur's Notebook: Practical Advice for Starting a New Business Venture
Common knowledge stuff.......2007-09-12
I was hoping to learn some really helpful information about licensing, but I was disappointed finding that the writer only scratched the surface. I learned more in a 15 minute conversation with an attorney.
Comprehensive and Fun.......2007-06-28
This book provided a very enjoyable read, as well as comprehensive information that every inventor and entrepreneur would find useful. It answered my questions about the law, and allowed me to really understand how IP law applies to small business, artists, inventors, etc. The tone of the book is very entertaining, and to the point, which makes for a good read.
This book is not a patent cookbook, but rather an excellent reference that allows its readers to really understand the big picture of intellectual property, and how it affects them.
Not of much use.......2006-11-03
There was very little useful information in the book about the details of obtaining patents or trademarks - a lot of legal definitions and the like but few nuts and bolts for anyone looking to apply for them.
My View of The Entrepreneur's Guide to Patents, Copyrights,Trademarks, Trade Sectrets, & Licensing.......2006-08-09
Attorney Jill Gilbert has given us a well written, well researched, highly informative, and easily understandable book on patents, copyrights, trademarks, etc. There is something for everyone, be it businessman, artist, musician, or entrepreneur.
Book Description
This book contains 17 chapters that follow the progression of a start-up business and anticipate its legal concerns through the stages of growth up to an initial public offering. The new edition integrates e-commerce and international issues where appropriate. This text is appropriate at both the undergraduate and graduate level for those courses that cover legal issues and entrepreneurs. Depending on the course, it could be used as either a core text or a supplement.
Customer Reviews:
Essential Reference.......2007-01-06
This book deserves to be on the shelf of every entrepreneur. The Entrepreneur's Guide to Business Law will take you on a virtual tour of the start-up process, and beyond, from the legal perspective. As experienced entrepreneurs understand, any business is a web of relationships, many of which are detailed in legal documents. This is the case for the relationship (establishment) of the entity with the state, relationships between co-founders, relationships between employees and the company, relationship between the company and its investors, suppliers, customers, etc. The legal foundation for all of these is clearly explained, and this book includes a wealth of practical information that will help any entrepreneur to work more efficiently and effectively with their legal counsel.
Steven K. Gold
Author, Entrepreneur's Notebook: Practical Advice for Starting a New Business Venture
Practical and readable.......2006-08-19
I've been a CEO for 17 years, and recently became involved with another startup company. Although there was an attorney on the board, I wasn't certain that the corporate form that had been selected was optimal. This book was recommended by the Stanford Center for Entrepreneurship as a great resource, so I picked it up. It has turned out to be very valuable. After reading the chapter on corporate form we switched from an LLC to a C Corp. I found myself advising some pretty smart lawyers on this issue.
The book covers many other topics relevant to startup companies, such as selecting an attorney, forming a board, and developing a stock options plan. What I like most is the authors' ability to provide just the right amount of background information (unavoidable when discussing legal issues) and immediately demonstrating practical implications. There are some useful charts outlining various approaches and their pros and cons: for example, I found the chart on corporate forms (LLC vs. C corp. vs. S corp., etc.) terrific.
The authors use numerous real-life case studies to bring concepts to life. Also, a very nice feature of the book is a substantial fictitious case study that is advanced at the end of every chapter, illustrating that chapter's key points.
The chapter organization of the book by topic makes it easy to pick and choose the sections you want to read. The order of the chapters is a good roadmap for the order in which an entrepreneur would want to consider the issues. The chapter on choosing and managing a lawyer will itself save you far more money than you'll spend on this book.
Entrepreneur's Guide to Business Law).......2006-03-11
This is an excellent guide for the do-it-yourself entrepreneur. It is a step by step guide for getting your business started. It also addresses the methods for getting good service from legal firms and others and how they work. Overall, I really enjoyed this text and would highly recommend it to others.
book review.......2000-07-11
I find the book to be very practical, and extremely helpful to entrepreneurs who are in the process of starting companies. I highly recommend this book to first-time entrepreneurs...
Great book for entrepreneurs -- much more than law.......2000-06-16
Any person beginning a new start-up should pick this up before they get much further than an idea. Though geared towards the major legal issues involved in starting a company, this book covers many of the essentials of beginning and structuring a business far better than most of the other books on financing or building start-ups. I've at least looked through a dozen books on the subject and none has had better, more explicit guidance on dividing founder's equity, options, funding relationship and so much more. I cannot recommend this book highly enough; you'll be at a disadvantage without it. You can view other reviews of entrepreneur books via my reviewer profile.
Book Description
This guide-book includes forms and checklists for such topics as new product development, marketing, and growth and exit strategies. A companion CD-ROM is also included.
Book Description
This new book gives the reader guidance and key information on setting up shop online, creating a legal and attractive business website, registering the domain accurately, maintaining the site, how to attract visitors to the site and what the Internet can do for you and to you.
This handbook also addresses the implementation of business on the website regarding such issues as taxation, fulfillment of orders, customer service and how to receive payments. A complete glossary and index complete this practical legal guide for starting a business website.
Whether you are a small business owner seeking to create or enhance your Web presence, or a player in a large enterprise who wants a better understanding of the legal and business fundamentals relevant to your company's Web enterprise, this book will provide important information you need.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent resource--easy to understand and smart.......2005-02-15
I heard about this book from a friend in business school who said it was on the recommended reading list. I bought the book and now I understand why it is considered one of the most useful books of the type. I'm persuaded by the writing, the examples, and the presentation. Highly recommended.
A huge waste of time and $$$.......2003-07-30
If it was allowed I would give this book a big fat zero. Alas, one star is as low as it gets. It skims over everything. Nothing practical in here. If you feel compelled to get this book buy a used copy. I am in the process of reading "Start Your Own Business" By Rieva Lesonsky which proves to be a great resource.
Extremely Helpful and Interesting!.......2003-01-29
I found this clearly written book to be helpful and even sort of interesting to read. It covers various aspects of setting up a business that uses a website and also setting up the website as well. (I didn't realize that many legal issues could affect your website, such as copyright issues and other publishing laws.) It also provides some fundamentals about contract law and system development you need to know in order to put a website in place. It is a good practical mix of legal and business advice. The sections on how to go about actually building your site, what functions and what content should be on it, are informative and full of issues that I would not have thought of on my own. The book is in a handbook format, and I will probably also refer to it with various questions as I go forward with the process. It also has forms in the back that I can fill in to create a budget. My business is a start-up but it seems like this book would be helpful for anyone who needs to know the legal and practical issues surrounding their business's website.
Book Description
Making Partnerships Work
Most partnership books focus on the technical aspects of "how to." The more important question is "how do." How do I make this succeed? Experienced corporate attorney Ira Nottonson covers both areas by exploring real-life examples that have generated success or failure in numerous partnership situations. Nottonson offers you a complete do-it-yourself guide to forming a partnership as well as the critical information necessary to navigate the various partnership relationships and make them work.
Nottonson covers:
- Putting the partnership together
- Bringing a partner into a new or existing venture
- Smart strategies for dividing responsibilities and profits
- Joint ventures, implicit partnerships, investors and family
- Building a decision protocol
- Cash flow for growth and profit
Give yourself a business advantage as Nottonson takes you step by step through the legal and personal issues of forming a partnership.
Critical Checklists and Sample Contracts on CD-ROM!
Sample documents include:
- General Partnership Agreement
- Partner Ledger
- Minutes of Partnerships Meeting Form
- Action of Written Consent of Partners
- Summary of the Uniform Partnership Act
- State of Delaware Certificate of Limited Partnership
Plus critical checklists for:
- Analysis of Partnership
- Developing a Partnership
- Reviewing Cash Flow
- Protecting Proprietary Information
- Arbitration and Mediation
- Building a Decision Protocol
- Bringing in New Partners
- Family Partnerships
- Attracting Investors
- And more!
For more than 28 years, Entrepreneur has provided the most trusted business advice available to business owners. Our legal guides continue that tradition by offering current and cost-effective legal information so you can resolve the business and legal issues you face on a daily basis. We'll also strive to help you identify when it's in your best interest to seek the personalized advice and services of a practicing lawyer.
Book Description
Create and Review Your Own Contracts
Minimize your legal risks and lock in profits as experienced contract attorney Laura Plimpton walks you through a fail-safe method of reviewing any contract. Learn to identify and neutralize the trick phrases that can create enormous risks for you and your business. Plimpton's expert advice can save you thousands of dollars in legal fees and may just prevent you from entering into a contract that could bankrupt your business.
Plimpton covers:
- A 10-minute foolproof system for reviewing any business contract
- 23 terms that bulletproof a contract
- 6 secrets for successful contracts
- 5 terms that can ruin a deal
- Powerful strategies for turning any contract to your advantage
Use this arsenal of tools to protect your business by making sure every contract you sign is fair and binding.
Critical checklists and sample contracts on CD-ROM!
Sample contracts include:
- Consulting Agreement
- Construction Agreement
- Service Agreement
- Assignment and Assumption Agreement
- Independent Contractor Agreement
- Facility Agreement
- Terms of Sale
- Terms of Purchase
And critical checklists for:
- Modifying or extending an existing contract
- Service agreements where your company is the service provider
- Purchase orders where your company is the seller or buyer
- Contracts where your company is the buyer of services
- And more!
For more than 28 years, Entrepreneur has provided the most trusted business advice available to business owners. Our legal guides continue that tradition by offering current and cost-effective legal advice so you can resolve the business and legal issues you face on a daily basis. We'll also strive to help you identify when it's in your best interest to seek the personalized advice and services of a practicing lawyer.
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- Another book by a lawyer who seems to have written this book to help promote his legal practice.
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Book Description
Estate plans are created for a variety of reasons, but they aren't just about distributing your assets. First and foremost, you want the security of knowing that you have provided for your loved ones and minimized the legal issues and financial insecurity they might otherwise face upon your death. As a business owner, you need a plan for business succession or transition and have a unique set of considerations to take into account. You may even want to leave a charitable economic legacy. In any event, your estate plan should be tailored to fit your personal situation.
With a special emphasis on business owners, W. Rod Stern covers:
- Wills, living trusts, gifts, charitable trusts and more
- The pros and cons of probate
- How to transition your business so your heirs can benefit
- Selecting trustees and guardians
- Reducing estate taxes
- Long-term asset management
Begin now, and design an estate plan that protects both your family and your business.
Sample documents include:
- Simplified Sample Will
- Simplified Sample Family Trust
- Financial Summary Worksheet
- Total Assets and Liabilities Worksheet
- Your Family Documentation Worksheet
- Asset Value Test
- Income and Expense Test
- Calculating Life Insurance Needs
- Tax Impact of Gifting
- Common Distribution Provisions for Wills and Rrusts
- IRS Publication 950 Introduction to Estate and Gift Taxes
- IRS Publication 706 U.S. Estate Tax Return
- IRS Publication 709 U.S. Gift Tax Return
- IRS Publication 1041 U.S. Income Tax Return for Estates and Trusts
- Schedule K1, 1041 Beneficiary's Share of Income, Deductions, Credits, etc.
For 30 years, Entrepreneur has provided the most trusted business advice available to business owners. Our legal guides continue that tradition by offering current and cost-effective legal advice so you can resolve the business and legal issues you face on a daily basis. We also strive to help you identify when it's in your best interest to seek the personalized advice and services of a practicing lawyer.
Customer Reviews:
Another book by a lawyer who seems to have written this book to help promote his legal practice........2007-09-25
Not a bad book on estate planning. Of course, the quality of a book always depends on whether it focuses sufficiently on the needs and desires of its intended target audience. The author says the target audience he was aiming at when writing this book was business owners. Since the book only included chapters 6 (Special considerations for the business owner) and 21 (Family limited partnerships) regarding business owners, I must say that the book missed its mark.
In my humble opinion the book covered its subject so broadly that I'm not sure it could be said to have focused on any one target audience. And this is not a good thing for a short book when you consider that estate planning is complex enough to have its own graduate law degree.
The book was split into the following six sections:
1. Estate planning philosophies
2. Estate planning goals
3. Estate planning tools
4. Taking charge of your estate planning
5. Appendix
6. Glossary
And in the third section the following estate planning tools were discussed adequately:
Wills
Trusts
Life insurance
Will substitutes
Gifts
Family limited partnerships
I did not like the way the author kept referring to the federal estate tax to be a "death tax." Estate taxes are a "wealth transfer tax." Nothing more; nothing less. And the way he referred to asset appreciation as being something akin to income was off the mark, too. If asset appreciation was income, then it could be taxed as income. And asset appreciation is not taxable. Only gains on sale of assets are taxable income.
And I had a problem when the author commented that estate planning is about distributing assets after you die. I believe estate planning (more accurately described as estate tax planning) is about organizing your affairs during your life so your assets will go to those you want without paying any more estate taxes than the law requires you to pay. Estate administration is about DISTRIBUTING assets after you die.
If one of the intents of the book was to help the reader understand estate planning philosophy, then this objective was probably achieved. But why didn't the title of the book reflect this intent? I must say, I very much liked the way the author discussed the eight most common approaches to estate planning using the different TV sitcom families.
I would have liked the book much more if it had minimized sections 1 and 2 and greatly expanded sections 3 through 6. Then of course, if the focus of the book were to emphasize estate planning philosophy, then greatly expand sections 1 and 2 and eliminate most of the material in sections 3 through 6.
A common problem in books about estate planning is the use of the exact estate tax exemption amounts. Using them dates a book quickly. I would have liked to have seen the exact amounts left out and the discussion made in more general and theoretical terms. And I definitely had no interest in reading Chapter 30 which included mere speculation. 3 stars!
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