Aaron J. Stewart Legal Guide

As part of our emerging Initial Consultation™ Series, we offer the "Initial Consultation for Entrepreneurs" free to view on our website. The guide is intended to bring you up to speed on the legal basics for starting your business and protecting your ideas. As a consolidated and user-friendly resource, this legal guide is intended to save you time and money in going forward. This guide is FREE.

This guide covers a variety of topics, including:

• How to start a business, including how to form a corporation and how to form an LLC
• How different businesses are taxed, including basic tax differences between an S Corporation and an LLC
• What questions you need to ask to chose the right business entity for you
• What ideas can be protected
• How you can protect your ideas and intellectual property
• The differences among Trademark, Copyright, Patent, and Trade Secrets, and what each means for your idea
• What questions you need to ask to chose the right form of IP protection
• Things to consider when interviewing or hiring employees
• Questions to ask when deciding how to finance your business, and the different ways of financing your business
• Questions to ask when deciding what insurance your business needs
• Basics on how Business Law and Intellectual Property Law intersects with starting an Internet business

We look forward to bringing you more Initial Consultation™ guides in a variety of topics.