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Entrepreneur's Notebook: Practical Advice for Starting a New Business Venture
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Entrepreneur's Notebook propels you on a whirlwind tour of the start-up process. It is an invaluable reference for new and experienced entrepreneurs that includes chapters on a wide range of topics, from entrepreneurial team building to business plans to financing. This excellent book provides an incredible amount of practical information that will help you make smarter decisions and avoid costly mistakes. The author, Steven K. Gold, is an accomplished entrepreneur who has co-founded and led five early-stage ventures. As an investor and mentor, he also advises many entrepreneurs and young companies. He earned his B.S.E. in Entrepreneurial Management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and his M.D. from Brown University Medical School.Customer Reviews:
Nice Guide for Beginners.......2007-06-16
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Starting a Limited Liability Company, 2nd Edition
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With Starting a Limited Liability Company you’ll learn how an LLC can work for you and exactly what you need to do to set up and operate one. The updated second edition features completely revised and updated planning strategies, and new chapters on the one-member liability company, estate planning, home businesses, and more. You’ll also find:Customer Reviews:
Solid Information About LLCs.......2003-12-07
When deciding which business structure to use, the authors say we should ask ourselves the question: "Is there any reason to consider any approach other than an LLC?" The authors suggest that many S-corporations and C-corporations would switch to the LLC structure if it weren't for tax issues involved with making the conversion.
I don't believe that's fully true. The S-corporation has one or two very powerful advantages over the LLC. First, for members who are active in operating an LLC, the earnings are subject to self-employment taxation. With an S-corporation, part of the distributed earnings could be paid as wages and part as distributions. Those distributions legally escape employment taxation. This can save the entrepreneur $6,000 or so a year in employment taxes (Figuring about $40,000 a year in wages and $40,000 in distributions, and using 15% as the approximate employment tax rate, saves about $6,000 per year). Compounding those amounts over 25 years can easily amount to half a million dollars or more. Many entrepreneurs would rather invest that money themselves rather than pay it into the Social Security system.
The second advantage to S-corporations is that for companies operating in multiple states, corporate law is better established than LLC law. So, for entrepreneurs who started with S-corporations, there really seems to be little reason to convert.
The authors say that the LLC is a good structure for tech companies. But, for various reasons, most tech companies will probably operate as C-corporations. For example, C-corporations can offer employee stock options. And, if they desire the pass-through nature of early losses, an S-corporation works well.
The LLC offers a certain familiarity for sole proprietors who wish to become LLCs, because we learn that a single-member LLC is essentially disregarded for tax purposes. The single owner files Schedule C, just as if he/she were a sole proprietor. The authors devote a chapter to home-based businesses, saying sole proprietors might want to consider converting to an LLC to gain the benefits of liability protection. The authors also say having an "LLC" name makes the business sound more professional than a sole proprietorship.
The book includes a good chapter about "piercing the LLC veil." As with corporations, an LLC is a separate entity from the individual/individuals owning it and certain formalities must be taken to distinguish between the two or the protections of LLC formation can be lost. For example, don't commingle LLC money and personal funds.
If you're thinking of starting a LLC, "Starting A Limited Liability Company" is a good read.
Peter Hupalo, Author of "How To Start And Run Your Own Corporation: S-Corporations For Small Business Owners."
Second Edition 2003 TERRIBLY OUT OF DATE.......2003-11-21
I contacted the publisher today, and expect a call back in the next two days, but until this book comes out in a revised printing, please be aware that despite its 2003 publication, it is very very out of date
For example, Appendix B states that only 48 states and the District of Columbia have passed LLC acts, and shows that Massachusetts was the last state to pass an LLC act, in 1995. In actuality, ALL 50 States and the DoC have passed LLC acts, the last State passed its act in early 1997!! That makes this book out of date by OVER 6 YEARS.
In Appendix A, a State by State comparison of LLC laws is similarly out of date, showing information that is 6 years old. For example, Appendix A states that Arizona requires 2 members to form an LLC. I formed an LLC in 1997, in Arizona, with only 1 member. The state laws governing LLCs have been ammended to more consistently conform to the Model LLC Act, and the information in Appendix A is now totally out of date.
I owned the First Edition of this book (which has been reviewed favorably here on Amazon), and when I ordered this Second Edition, I threw away the old edition, so I am unable to compare the main body of the two books to see what has actually been updated.
Erroneous Appendices aside, there are better books on forming LLCs available today. I reccomend the books by Anthony Mancuso published by NOLO. And for persons wanting a very detailed analysis of the taxation of LLCs, "Profits, Taxes, & LLCs" by Holmes F Crouch is a comprehensive, if challenging, read.
A thorough treatment of LLCs.......2000-07-19
A great help for a small company!.......1998-07-28
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