March 17th, 2008

Getting Your New Corporation Up And Running - Funding

Once you form a new business entity, you need to come up with a way to get money into it. This concept is known as capitalization or funding of the business entity.

At first glance, funding an entity seems fairly simple. Don’t the officers of the corporation simply open a bank account and deposit some money? Unfortunately, it is not that simple. The money has to come from somewhere, typically the shareholders.

Funding a new corporate entity is obviously a critical step, but how is it done. There are three primary methods, although one should check with applicable laws in your state to delineate which are available. Regardless, let’s take a closer look.

November 19th, 2007

Trademarks – An Exercise In Patience

Trademarks are a form of intellectual property for a person or business. To protect your mark, you always should formally trademark it. This brings us to the subject of patience.

A mark is simple a distinctive name, brand or whatever for your person or business. At the risk of being sued to high heaven, the name “Google” is a trademark for a certain search engine. When it is mentioned or you read about it, you know exactly what it refers to. As a business becomes successful, it will almost always want to trademark its brand, logo or whatever.


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