Bus. 365: Entrepreneurship

Dr. Ahiarah

HW #5A: Bureaucratic Formalities of Entrepreneurship in NY State

NOTE: YOUR WORK MUST BE TYPED OR WORD-PROCESSED; HAND-WRITTEN WORK WILL BE RETURNED TO YOU WITHOUT ANY GRADE

http://www.businessknowhow.com/Startup/checklist.htm

Business startup checklist

http://www.gorr.state.ny.us/Startbus.html

Startup information for different legal entities in NY State

http://www.nyc.gov/html/sbs/nycbiz/downloads/pdf/key_licensing_agencies.pdf

List of Licensing agencies in NY State

http://www.dos.state.ny.us/corp/formbus.html

What Types Of Businesses Operate In New York State?

http://www.nyc.gov/html/sbs/nycbiz/html/starting/licensing.shtml

Licenses and Permits in NY City

http://www.nyc.gov/html/sbs/nycbiz/html/starting/business_legal_structure.shtml

SP/GP/LLP/C/SSC/LLC Legal structures

http://www.uslegalforms.com/corporate-center.htm

Sample legal forms—Mostly Read only

http://www.nys-permits.org/

Types of Business Permits required in NY State

http://www.blumberglegalforms.com/Forms/234.pdf

Where to purchase legal forms for registering businesses in the US

http://www.allaboutforms.com/

Free legal forms for registering a business

http://www.nyc.gov/html/sbs/nycbiz/html/starting/eretailing.shtml

e-commerce

http://www.inc.com/articles/2000/06/19438.html

Which Legal form is Best for your Business? INC Magazine, June 2000

http://www.awib.org/content_frames/articles/registrations.html

Registrations and Filing Requirements for Several states in USA

http://www.dos.state.ny.us/corp/busguide.htm
Forming a Business Corporation in New York State

http://www.dos.state.ny.us/corp/corpspub.html

Filing information

http://www.nylovesbiz.com/Small_and_Growing_Businesses/mwbe.asp

Programs for Minority & Women-Owned Biz in NY State

Please, download the information, or at least, spend some time reviewing it in all of the above-listed web sites. You are trying to learn about forms required to be filed, licenses, fees, and certificates mandated in order to legally establish a valid business enterprise in the state of New York. CHAPTER 9 of our text generally addresses most (but not all) of the questions below.

1. Define these forms of legal business entities that operate in the USA: (a) Sole Proprietorship, (b) General Partnership, (c) Limited Liability Partnership, (d) Limited Liability Company, (e) C-Corporation, and (f) S-Corporation.
2. Outline the sequence of steps necessary to form a legally recognized (a) Sole Proprietorship, (b) General Partnership, (c) Limited Liability Partnership, (d) Limited Liability Company, (e) C-Corporation, and (f) S-Corporation, in NY State. That is, in each case: what form(s), papers or articles have to be filed? With whom—(dept. of state, county clerk, city department, etc.)? What certificate(s) have to be obtained? What number(s) have to be obtained, at the federal, state and local levels of government? And, what is the amount of fees to be paid in each case?
3. This question does not concern bureaucratic formalities. What types of programs are targeted to minorities and women-owned businesses in the Empire (NY) State?