Business Incorporation for Startups and Entrepreneurs

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Incorporation for New Businesses

This section is for entrepreneurs to research vendors that can create your LLC, S-Corp, non-profit, or C-Corp on your behalf. Keep in mind the fees on the pricing pages are for the services, and the fees each state charges are extra and not shown until you check out.

Note: there are more vendors than this, but we are not comfortable listing them, even though we can probably make money doing it.

• Nolo: Our favorite, they sell guides for business formation, sample business forms for background check consent, contractor agreements, and leases, and of course they can incorporate your LLC for you.
  • How to write a business plan
  • Business formation guides
  • Business forms, legal forms
  • Small business start-up kit (separate guide for California)
  • How to form a non-profit corporation
• Incfile: They claim to have some of the cheapest LLC fees.
• Zenbusiness
• Rocket Lawyer
• LegalZoom

Incorporation for Funded Startups

Funded startups or startups about to get funded should look into the services below. These firms help start-ups create and structure their business and incorporate in Delaware. People who will use the services below are either preparing for an investment round or structuring the business to allow them to give out stock options (or both).

If you are a funded startup (or about to be) outside the U.S. (emphasis on the word funded), Stripe Atlas is probably the best method for incorporating in the U.S. for international startups and getting a U.S. presence.

• Clerky: A well-know company, they have helped form some of the biggest names in start-ups. The fees are very good for the service you get, and they also have options for handling fundraising paperwork. They give out discounts to services that start-ups would use, like AWS. How it works.
• Stripe Atlas: very reasonable fees and you get a ton of free credits to SaaS vendors like Amazon AWS & Digital ocean. They allow international entrepreneurs to open a U.S. presence.
• Gust Launch: they have a subscription pricing structure instead of the single fees like Clerky & Stripe Atlas. However some tiers offer a lot of of start-up credits.

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