Do you want to successfully start your business in the United States? If you are a foreign entrepreneur, this practical guide is for you! This first guide in the YES TO ENTREPRENEURS® series will help you understand how your future U.S. company will work. It will also provide you with the tools you need to start and succeed in your business in the United States, despite the obstacles and distance. Together, we will explore several aspects related to an American company: ✅ The types of legal entities - including corporation and LLC ✅ The State of Delaware and its 15 secrets ✅ The notion of registered agent ✅ The domiciliation of your company ✅ The annual corporate obligations ✅ The EIN number and the U.S. taxation ✅ The ABCs of doing business in the United States 💥 Exclusive Bonus : Useful Resources Throughout the process of writing this guide, the author accumulated many hyperlinks that greatly enrich its content. An up-to-date list of these hyperlinks can be found at the web address listed in the Useful Resources section, at the end of this guide. 🇺🇸 Do not hesitate! Immerse yourself in the American dream. ----- WHAT THEY SAY "Books such as those in the Yes to Entrepreneurs series provide businesses with useful information and practical tools to expand into the United States market, the largest consumer market and recipient of foreign direct investment in the world." Gina Bento, Commercial Specialist, U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration "Never before have guides been so deserving of the term practical!" Bernard Geenen, Economic and Commercial Counselor, Wallonia Export & Investment Agency, Consulate of Belgium, New York "Simple. Clear. Precise. Complete.... A must." Richard Johnson, Retired Journalist, Journal of Montreal "... these guides are great... I highly recommend their use." Tom Creary, Founder and Past Chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in Canada - Quebec Chapter "The Yes to Entrepreneurs book series is extremely structured, complete and easy to use..." Serge Bouganim, Lawyer of the Paris and Brussels Bars "Congratulations to my colleague Vincent Allard for the publication of three exceptional popularization books for entrepreneurs who want to start a business in the United States." Pierre Chagnon, Retired Emeritus Attorney, Bâtonnier of Quebec "This series of practical guides allows entrepreneurs and professionals who advise them to benefit from the experience of thousands of other entrepreneurs who have started their business in the United States." Robert CHAYER, U.S. Tax Expert, Canada "Reading is highly recommended. Three essential and very comprehensive guides for all immigrant candidates who wish to familiarize themselves with the important concepts to start their professional installation in the United States." Estelle Berenbaum, Immigration Lawyer, Florida "Vincent Allard's Yes to Entrepreneurs collection provides ready-to-use pragmatic knowledge to successfully navigate American waters." Arnaud Labossière, CEO, The Free Minds Press Ltd ----- CONTENTS 1 - Introduction 1.1 Presentation 2 - Where to Create Your U.S. Company? 2.1 In General 2.2 The State of Delaware and its 15 Secrets 2.3 Delaware: Statistics and Examples 2.4 Other States 3 - What Type of Legal Entity to Choose? 3.1 Types of Legal Entities 3.2 Corporation vs. LLC 3.3 Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws 3.4 Business Purpose 3.5 Capital Stock 3.6 Shareholders 3.7 Directors and Officers 3.8 Corporate Ledger and Seal 4 - Registered Agent of Your Company 4.1 What Is a Registered Agent? 4.2 How to Choose your Registered Agent? 5 - Domiciliation of your Company 5.1 Importance of an Address in the United States 5.2 Address in the United States: Where? 5.3 Telephone Number 6 - Annual Corporate Obligations 6.1 Annual Report 6.2 Corporate Tax 6.3 Fees of the Registered Agent 7 - EIN Number and Taxation 7.1 EIN Number 7.2 Income Tax 7.3 Sales Tax 7.4 Tax Treaties 8 - Some Corporate Situations 8.1 Authorization to Do Business in Another State 8.2 Assumed Name 8.3 Conversion and Domestication 9 - Closing Your Company 9.1 Voluntary Dissolution 9.2 Forced Dissolution 10 - Conclusion 10.1 The ABCs of Doing Business in the United States * Exclusive Bonus: Useful Resources

This monograph presents the results of The Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics [PSED] II and is the only nationally representative dataset of new business creation providing a critical source of information on the early stages of the entrepreneurial process.

Understanding the origins of new businesses — the firm creation process—has been dramatically affected by the development of longitudinal studies of business start-ups. Several projects have been implemented to track the development of new firms, from the emergence of a business idea and organization of a start-up team through the birth of an operational business. The U.S. projects (the first and second Panel Studies of Entrepreneurial Dynamics, known as PSED I and II) have counterparts in a number of other countries: Australia, Canada, China, Latvia, Netherlands (two projects), Norway, and Sweden. These eleven projects in nine countries, implemented over the past decade, are at different stages of development and have been utilized for a wide range of assessments of entrepreneurial and business creation phenomena. This volume presents the state of the art of these international research projects, providing the first in-depth comparison of the firm creation data across a wide range of national contexts. The work will be of great interest to the research community, particularly those developing such projects in their own countries, as well as policy makers and scholars interested in the effect of national context on the business creation process.

Business creation, or entrepreneurship, is a major source of national economic growth and adaptation as well as an important career choice for millions. In this insightful book, Paul D. Reynolds presents an overview of the major factors associated with contemporary business creation, reflecting representative samples of US early stage nascent ventures, and emphasizing the unique features of the one-third that achieve profitability. This in-depth assessment includes empirical descriptions of a broad range of relevant features of the entrepreneurial process. By using representative samples of nascent entrepreneurs and ventures in the US, it allows extrapolation to US populations of entrepreneurs, pre-profit ventures, and activity in all economic sectors. Outcomes including profitability and disengagement are identified in multiple follow-up interviews. A useful resource for scholars concerned with business creation, this book also makes an engaging supplementary course book for upper division and graduate courses in business plan creation and research methods. Policy analysts emphasizing programs and policies to enhance business creation will also find it enlightening.

This title covers the main legal and regulatory issues to be considered before entering the U.S. market. It's a "must read" for non-U.S. businesses, foreign attorneys, law firm associates and new entrepreneurs.

Seventeen in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 190 economies, Doing Business 2020 measures aspects of regulation affecting 10 areas of everyday business activity.

This research program began in 1993. The idea of developing representative samples of those active in the business creation process, now called nascent entrepreneurs, developed from the success of using regional characteristics to 1 predict variations in new firm birth rates in six countries. The initial purpose was to determine those external factors that encouraged individuals to initiate the business creation process and become, as they are now called, nascent entrepreneurs. The research procedures, mainly the critical aspects of the scre- ing procedures, were developed with the Survey Research Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin in Madison to complete the Wisconsin Entrepreneurial 2 Climate Study. Support for an initial test with a national sample was provided by the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. Richard Curtin became involved with the incorporation of the screening module as part 3 of the Survey of Consumers in October and November in 1993. The success of these efforts in providing a detailed description of the ent- preneurial process based on representative samples led to substantial interest among entrepreneurial scholars. A founding team of Nancy Carter, William Gartner, and Paul Reynolds was able to organize the Entrepreneurial Research Consortium (ERC), a collaborative network of 34 research units that shared the financial cost and sweat equity required to implement the first national project, 4 PSED I.