Your Startup Should Not Be an LLC

Your Startup Should Not Be an LLC

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Partner Gary Schall, in this guest article published by VentureBeat, discusses the complexities of organizing as an LLC and when that path may or may not be right for your startup.

Excerpt: I'm a big believer in keeping things simple. Don't make more work for yourself, specially if you're a launching a startup. Growing a business, staffing it, and keeping ahead of the competition is more than enough for anyone to tackle. So when I see a startup has organized as an LLC, a limited liability company, I know that the founders were probably thinking something like this: “The paperwork for an LLC is a single page, man. Let's fill it out, file it in Delaware, and get back to work.” Read more

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