Forming Your Business: A Practical Approach

Tailored to entrepreneurs and would-be business owners who ultimately seek to raise capital, this program outlines practical steps for forming a company in a way that maximizes its chances for success while minimizing owners’ exposure to liability. Topics include:   

• The benefits of incorporation.
• Selecting a corporate structure and jurisdiction.
• Key corporate documents that get a business up and running.
• Crafting critical business contracts, including employment and consultant agreements.
• Protecting business assets—from intellectual property registrations to putting insurance safeguards in place to hedge against loss.
• Understanding funding basics.

Ilana Lubin is speaking at this event.