I run my company as a hobby and as a sole-priporitorship. When I setup my iTunes Connect account, even as an individual, I was able to specify a company name. My applications are listed under the company name; the only place my actual name appears is as the seller.
I'm no lawyer, but the decision to form an LLC or not is a question of liability. How much liability are you exposing yourself to by selling apps on the App Store? As far as I can tell, the answer is none. All applications are purchased under a blanket EULA that Apple provides. Since there is no real liability, I can't see the need to form an LLC. If you start doing some contract work and sell your services I could see you forming an LLC at that point. Sincerely, Doug On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 3:05 PM, James Bucanek <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Mark Munz <mailto:[email protected] <unmarked%40gmail.com>> wrote > (Sunday, June 27, > 2010 9:36 AM -0700): > > > >IMNAL, I just google a lot. > > Googling is fun, isn't it! > > > >If you fill out a Trade Name Application, that approval seems to be > >the way to give sole proprietors a business alias. > > > >http://www.azsos.gov/business_services/Forms/TNT/TN_apptn.pdf > > Been there, done that, got one 10 years ago. (Actually I have > two, one for my consulting business and one for my software business.) > > > >From my brief read on the internet, it looks similar to Texas' DBA > >(Doing Business As) process for sole proprietors. When I lived in TX, > >I was able to use my DBA to open a business bank account, etc. My > >guess is Apple would accept it as well. > > A Trade Name Certification from the Arizona Secretary of State > is exactly like a DBAs from other states. > > The *very* first thing I did was to FAX Apple my Trade Name > Certification. The problem is that a DBA or Trade Name > Certification is NOT on Apple's list of acceptable documents, > running me head-first into a bureaucratic stone wall. > > James > -- > James Bucanek > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ MacSB email guidelines: http://tinyurl.com/2g55d6 Use MacSB-Talk for off topic messages: http://groups.google.com/group/macsb-talk Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/macsb/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/macsb/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
