There's been some really good advice so far. I incorporated eight years ago,
and it wasn't hard. I bought a "boilerplate" incorporation kit from a
stationery store, and filed all the relevant paperwork with the corporation
commision. Yes, your corporate name must be unique in Arizona. It's also
not a bad idea to look at the Federal Trademark Register - ASU has this on
CD; I think it's in the Hayden library. That way you can check to see if
your name is unique in the USA. Of course, this won't protect you from
somebody else taking the name, unless you register it as a Federal trademark.
(I didn't do that; I think it costs like $300, or at list it used to. One
of these days I'll do that, unless "Nakota Software" has already been taken.)
Vaughn
On Thursday 20 February 2003 20:17, you wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 16:52, Ed Skinner wrote:
> > I'm looking to start a business. My initial needs are incorporation,
> > a company name and a nominal web presence. I'm in the thinking stage and
> > working on cost estimates and a startup plan.
> > Is there anyone in this group who:
> > 1) has done this recently and is willing to share their experience, or
> > 2) does this professionally and is interested in assisting
> > (professionally)?
>
> If you havent been there already, visit the Arizona Corporation
> Commission web site (http://www.cc.state.az.us/corp/index.htm). There
> is a lot of good information about forming a corporation in Arizona
> there.
>
> > At this point I have a business name I like and the *.com domain is
> > available along with the domains of a couple of easy misspellings. But
> > one of the common misspellings is already taken and, worse, it belongs to
> > a company in the greater Phoenix area. Is that a problem?
> > What sort of incorporation would be best? A "subchapter S"
> > incorporation was suggested. The business will be consulting-oriented but
> > there will be some "pack and ship" physical products as well.
> > Initially, the web presence will be no more than a dozen simple
> > pages (which I will craft myself). This will probably be hosted very
> > simply (such as at register.com for $14.95/month plus three email
> > mailboxes). Eventually, however, it'll move to a more capable hosted site
> > and include apache-based custom interactive pages (again which I will
> > either write or, more likely, use an open source package).
> > Suggestions/comments are welcomed.
> >
> > --
> > Ed Skinner, ed@flat5.net, http://www.flat5.net/
> >
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