Starting a business is like learning a new language. You’ve got all these terms thrown at you—Inc., LLC, DBA—and it can feel ...

Jane Haskins practiced law for 20 years, representing small businesses in startup, dissolution, business transactions and litigation. She has written hundreds of articles on legal, intellectual ...

The Limited Liability Company (LLC), a hybrid of the partnership and the corporation, has become a popular legal alternative for business owners. Now available in almost all states, the LLC combines ...

In the District of Columbia, you can form a professional LLC and series LLC, in addition to a standard LLC. When you want to ...

John Edwards is a licensed attorney with experience in commodities and investments. He provides performance analysis of hedge funds and investors. Choosing between a limited liability company (LLC) ...

When you decide to set up a new business as a limited liability company, you benefit from a legal structure that gives you and your partners, known as members, great flexibility in running the company ...

With a sole proprietorship, you and your business are the same legal entity. This means that you are personally on the hook for the debts and liabilities of your business. Personal assets-;such as ...

Breaking up parts of a limited liability company, or any company, into separate "divisions" or "departments" might make accounting, management or other company operations easier. One division of a ...

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In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...