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After working for more than 25 years in the publishing industry, the company I worked 
for downsized and I accepted an attractive buyout package. Now I’d like to start my own 
business. What do I do first?
 

 

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Choosing Among Sole Proprietorships, Single-Shareholder Corporations And Single-Member LLCs For New Businesses

Choosing Among Sole Proprietorships, Single-Shareholder Corporations And Single-Member LLCs For New Businesses

Q: I’m starting a new business in New Hampshire. I will be its only owner. Should my business be a sole proprietorship, a single-shareholder corporation or a single-member LLC?

About the Author

John Cunningham is a N.H. business lawyer whose practice is focused on LLC law and tax. He chaired the N.H. Business and Industry Association committee that drafted the Revised New Hampshire Limited Liability Company Act, a radical revision of New Hampshire LLC law that went into effect on January 1st. LLCs are, by a wide margin, the entities of choice for N.H. business start-ups.

Q: What are limited liability companies (“LLCs”), and what should businesses know 
about them?
A: LLCs are a new type of business entity that emerged in the early 1990s. They have many important legal and tax characteristics, but the key ones are these:
  • Liability shield. LLCs provide their owners (called “members”) with a statutory liability shield that is essentially identical to the corporate shield.

About the Author

John Cunningham is a N.H. business lawyer whose practice is focused on LLC law and tax. He chaired the N.H. Business and Industry Association committee that drafted the Revised New Hampshire Limited Liability Company Act, a radical revision of New Hampshire LLC law that went into effect on January 1st. LLCs are, by a wide margin, the entities of choice for N.H. business start-ups.

 

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I’ve recently taken my business plan for a new and innovative consumer product to several banks seeking funding, but have had no success. What are some other financing options that might be available to me?

 

 

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            My partner and I have been running our laser engraving business ourselves for the past two years. We’ve reached the point now where we’re both completely maxed out, so we’re considering hiring at least one employee. Where do we start  Read more.....

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            Over the past 15 years, nearly two-thirds of new jobs have been generated by small businesses. Yours may be one of them. That’s good news for your local economy, for your customers whose expectations for quality service are higher than ever, and for you, as you can focus your energies on other priorities.

A Quick Reference Guide for Start-up and Existing Small Businesses in Austin and San Antonio

Following a number of years in the insurance industry, five years ago I left my job to have a child and be a stay-at-home mom. Now that my son is beginning school, rather than returning to work, I’m thinking about starting a business. What advice can you offer?  Read more...

Bonnie Copeland

Current City: Costa Mesa, CA

Business start up, business plans, financing your buisness, financial projections, cash flow, budgeting, intellectual property, turn-arounds for troubled businesses. Retail, manufacturing, entertainment, the environmental industry and non-profits. I began my business career by starting a retail ski shop, which built to $1 million in sales as the ski industry boomed. When my daughter was born I soldl the ski business and became a stay-at-home mom entrepreneur. I sold custom portraits of children and pets through mail order and specialty shops. Five years later I sold the portrait business and entered the University of Pittsburgh M.B.A. program, majoring in Accounting and Finance. After graduating Magna cum Laude I worked as Assistant Controller and Factory Systems Analyst for a large aluminum foundry and rolling mill in Eastern Ohio. Two very cold winters later I moved to Southern California as Project Financial Analyst for Hughes Aircraft.I moved to Disney to manage the financial affairs for several divisions at the park as well as the construction of Thunder Mountain Railroad. I left Disney to work as a Special Projects Analyst for Shell Oil, then spent 11-1/2 years at Digital Equipment Corporation. At DEC I worked directly with the Western Vice President of Sales, managing the budgeting, reporting, and awards programs for a 300 person sales force. I also served as executive partner to several aerospace and banking companies, wrote the strategic plan for a new $50 million venture, served as national training manager for the Finance and Accounting organization, and as training liaison between Finance and Accounting and the sales group. In 1992 I took early retirement and became a SCORE volunteer. Currently, I work half-time doing marketing, accounting, and financial planning for a small family owned firm. I also work periodically with the Cal State Fullerton School of Business Entrepreneurship program and run three small businesses: consulting for several former employers, art beading and freelance writing

Resume

Education

BA, University of Pittsburgh, Cum Laude -- Studio Art Major, Theater and dance minor MBA, Univeristy of Pittsburgh, Magna Cum Laude, Finance and Accounting. 5 time winner, Chapter Cyber Counselor of the Year Award.

Dan S Miller

Current City: Pebble Beach, CA

Dan S. Miller - http://www.linkedin.com/in/dsmiller9/ - Serial Entrepreneur/ C-Exec./ Roadmap Success - MBA.PMP.Series7&63

Launched 6 successful startups - 4 exists

Contact me for consulting if:

a) You have a going venture and a team that can execute.

b) You have quantifiable traction. (sales, revenues, users)

c) You’re ready to take your venture to the next level.

cloud-mobile-social.com

My areas of expertise include: All things Cloud+Mobile+Social • App & Web Development • Validation/Valuation • Breakout • Deal Structure • Angel + Venture Funding Pipeline • Start-up success.

Breakout = Vision and Discoveries that Rocket a Venture Forward at an Accelerated Rate.

#Venture:
• #Validation, #Runway & #Execution.
• Accelerating #product delivery, revenue streams, and problem solving.
• #Monetizing #business #assets.
• Exploiting #social #media.
• #Scaling to own the #market.
• #Funding pipeline.
• Driving #success factors.
 

Contact me at: dan.miller@scorevolunteer.org

#cloud, #mobile, #social

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Resume

Education

MBA, (Honors in Finance) St Mary's;

​PMP - Project Mgt. Institute;

FINRA series 7 & 63;

BA, Biology, Lone Mt. College-University of San Francisco.

Affiliations:

Keiretsu Forum (Angel Funding Group)

Cloud-Mobile-Social (Venture Capital)

Institutional Investors Group (Qualified Investor)

AngelList,

CrunchBase,

CapLinked,

SandHill,

VentureDeal,

FundersClub,

JumpStart days,

Eureka,

Ignite,

(FINRA)Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, 

(PMI) Project Management Institute, 

(ICECC)Institute of Certified eCommerce Consultants

Cloud” (Improve Life) - #Access, #Security, #Privacy, Governance, Architecture, #Search, #Sharing, Backup, #Forecast, Hadoop, #BigData, MapReduce, HDFS, #Risk, Hosting, #View, #Networks, #Stats, Hardware, #Servers, #OpenSource, AI, BI, #Model, #Consulting, Paas, Saas, SOAAgility, Elasticity, #Distributed processing, #BitCoin, #Hybrid, Virtualization, #Performance, #Infrastructure, #Migration, Provisioning, Grid computing, #Private, #Public, Machine Learning, Visualizing, Capture, #Realtime, #On-demand, #Amazon Cloud Drive, #iCloud, #RackSpace, SkyDrive, #gDrive, #Workload, #Skype, Query, Clusters, Controller, Indexes, #Object ID, #Scale. #Ecommerce

Mobile” (Extend Technology) -  #Devices, #Handsets, #iPhone, #Android, Mini, Communication, Portability, #iPad, #Connection, #Location, #Photo's, #App’s, #Games, #Text, #Video, Entertainment, #Music, Integration, #Family, #Friends, #Tags, Uploads, Embedded, Actionable, Targeted, #Transactions, #Payments, Near Field (NFC), Hyper-Local, #Nightlife, #Merchandise, #Sports, #Fitness, #News, #Media, #Travel, #Jobs, Gifts, #Apparel, #Food, #Dining, #Menu, 4square, QR, Hash Tags, Bump, #GPS, Check-in, Agile, In-touch, #Instagram, #Commerce, #Shopping, #Ads, #Maps, #Meetup, Analytics, Rapid Prototyping

Social” (Expand Social Action) - #Connections, App’s, Media, #Games, Content, #Search, #Likes, Pokes, #Friends, #Marketing, #Ads, #Flickr, #Instagram, #Pinterest, Tumblr, Topsy, #MetaData, #Commerce, #Campaigns, #Location, #Cookies, #Analytics, #Keywords, #Life, #Love, #Meetup, #Dating, Nightlife, #Entertainment, #Learning, #Growth, Evolution, Virtual Reality, Virtualization, #Timeline, #Tweets, #Blogs, IM, #Politics, #World events, #LinkedIn, #Facebook, #Twitter, g+1, 4square, Klout, Adwords, #Wiki, Crunchbase, #Youtube, Mash, Crittercism, Quora, Dribble, #Vimeo, Behance, Dvice, Gizmodo, Crowd #Funding, Delicious, Startle, #About, #Groups, #Flash, #Events, #Hangout, Shout, Scream, #Talk, #Be, Interact, Show me what's next?

time, service, tools, define, site, profit, loss, law, patent, thank you, technical, value, look at, mobile, goals, suggestions, raise, demographics, prospects, program, coding, retail, e-commerce, eCommerce, hoping, website, feedback, sales, presentation, app, compete, target, men, ip, women, recommendations, ideas, game, online, model, social, need, capital, expert, building, counsel, ad words, SEO, resources, using, score, target, audience, marketing, campaign, product, customer, marketing, consulting, banks, scale, investment, cloud, seed, ads, funding, angels, mission, launch, mentor, veterans, revenue, beta, discovery, success, startup, team, small, business, funding, help, opportunity, presentation, investors, expenses, potential, innovation, social media, feedback, buyers, validation, entrepreneur, execution, questions, venture capital, customers, starting, running, growing, video, Twitter,  Facebook, Youtube, LinkedIn, pitch, 

 

Bob Goedjen

Current City: Saratoga, CA

Bob’s career included 40 years in the Semiconductor Industry. During that time he worked for a Fortune 500 company as well as two smaller companies. He began as an applications engineer and then sales engineer, and  rose to director of marketing and world wide sales. Bob has had P & L responsibility for discrete, hybrid and integrated circuits. He also directed various manufacturing operations in the USA and Internationally. He successfully managed a multi-million dollar ground water contamination project. Before joining SCORE 10 years ago, he was a managing consultant for a consulting company focused on northern California’s small and medium sized manufacturers. While there he provided consulting guidance to clients seeking funding, marketing planning and manufacturing efficiencies. Bob has also been involved with several non-profit corporations as CFO and Treasurer and served as a reviewer for major government and state grants.  His skills include B2B marketing,strategic planning, manufactuing, international supply chain management and project management.

Resume

Education

University of Michigan

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