Beyond sole proprietorships, entrepreneurs can also choose to operate their businesses as general partnerships, limited liability partnerships, limited liability companies, or corporations. 

It is common for a person to start her or his business as a sole proprietor and at some achieved objective transition it into another business vehicle. Some of those other vehicles are described below.

Porters Points—Boring!

• Carefully review your rules, your gas, your market analysis, and every other step you have taken so far. Where does you idea stand in relation to these legal frameworks? Decide and get to work. But to be sure—
• Talk to your attorney. If you don’t have one, get one.
• Talk to your accountant. If you don’t have one, get one.

That does it for Chapter 6: Boring!  We told you we would be brief and to the point in this section of the book!

Today begins Chapter 6: Boring!  We’ll learn about the different business structures available to entrepreneurs, starting with sole proprietorship.

Sorry. But however boring this chapter may seem, it is every bit as critical as anything else you’ll read in this book. We promise to keep it on task, to the point, and brief (we’re even skipping Porter’s Preface), so stay with us!

The kind of business structure you establish really does matter. Talk to your accountant. Talk to your attorney. Get this right. Ask questions and insist that your key advisors give you the answers to the questions you don’t know to ask. If you are going solo, it’s pretty easy to choose how to structure your company. If you are partnering, know what structure provides the best tax advantages, and set one up that easily allows decisions to be made and executed.

DISCLAIMER: This chapter does not replace your interaction with two of the three most important relationships you will establish—your attorney and your accountant.

Tomorrow we’ll learn about general and limited liability partnerships.  Hopefully not too boring!