> Good advice. Here's how to overcome the limitation in the last sentence > above. For about $75 you can DIY incorporate as an S-Corp in NC.
I've always wondered - anyone locally done the S-Corp route (esp. in NC, of course) for a techie(-ish) business and willing to doc it somewhere or give links to places others have doc'd it? Generic "how to make an S-Corp in NC" isn't bad, but the sec. of state web site covers that ok - I'm mainly thinking that software/consulting/etc. kinds of gigs have a lot of similarities to each other (dun and bradstreet categories, accounting places or people in the triangle that are very familiar with that kind of business and have many such clients, etc). Just seems like a good number of the trilug people have gone this route, and it sounds like something trilug is as good a place as any for organizing the content and developing a "best practices" thing. CED and other kinds of things exist as well, of course, but I'm less interested in the "formulate a business plan doc and practice pitching it to VC's" than the "here's the best/easiest way to set up your accounting for the cases of 1) doing it yourself and 2) finding an inexpensive accountant to help you out". Hell, while we're on the subject, anyone wanna recommend tax preparation? I've done my own in the past and would say I'm very familiar with tax law, but it's one of those things where I think I'm gonna be lazy next year and let someone else do it if it's cheap enough :) Thanks! -- James Manning <http://www.sublogic.com/james/> GPG Key fingerprint = B913 2FBD 14A9 CE18 B2B7 9C8E A0BF B026 EEBB F6E4 -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
