Ask News.YC: Best Online Incorporation Service?

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by bmaier • 19 years ago

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What has anyone used, what have your experiences been? What are the best? LegalZoom? Active Filings? The Delaware Company? Something else?

I just need a quick Delaware LLC setup.

donna• 19 years ago

we did most of ourself; http://www.nolo.com/resource.cfm/catID/BAAE1B67-F54A-41B4-91... then paid our lawyer to go over it. It was really successful process.

cstejerean• 19 years ago

I've used the Company Corporation in the past. I haven't used any other services so I can't compare but it was a pain free easy setup. Paid a small fee online, everything arrived in the mail a few days later and the deal was pretty much done.

rrival• 19 years ago

I've been very happy with them as well. Corporate.com.

rwebb• 19 years ago

Most law firms use CT or CSC. The important part of incorporating is not just being recognized by a state, but everything else that goes along with it when you do it properly (bylaws, ownership, etc.). If you are at the point where you need to incorporate, you need to do this other stuff too and should probably talk to a lawyer that works with small companies regularly.

zach• 19 years ago

Well, you can always look at what others have done.

For example, I had no idea what DNS hosting service to use, so I looked up which one ycombinator.com used and went with that (EasyDNS). Not scientific, but what the hey.

Similarly, you can look up any company registered in California here and find out who they use: http://kepler.sos.ca.gov/list.html

rms2• 19 years ago

You can get most of the Nolo books on eMule for free.

paulgb2• 19 years ago

Would it be considered ironic to steal legal documents?

rms2• 19 years ago

Only in the Alanis Morissette way

falsestprophet• 19 years ago

Do it yourself. Seriously. Any online incorporation service is going to give you the same caliber boilerplate document that you can find online for free.

bmaier2• 19 years ago

The benefit that I see in these services is the free year of registered agent service and the other side features. I would do it myself if I thought I could find comparable prices on the individual elements if I did it myself.

Its not for a startup, I just need an entity to test some projects out and have some liability protection. If I was doing a startup I'd go with a lawyer no question..

testapplication• 19 years ago

If you aren't doing it to make money, and are just doing it for the liability protection, in court that liability protection would be found to not apply to your non-corporation posing as corporation.

henryw• 19 years ago

I really like LegalZoom. They have a very good and professional online application process vs some of the other services.

Ask News.YC: Best Online Incorporation Service?

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