What To Do First When Starting a Business | Step-by-Step | Order of Legal Tasks to Startup

Are you overwhelmed by all the legal tasks required to start a business, and you want to know which task to do first, step-by-step? In this video I share the order of legal tasks you need to complete to start your small business, including which decisions need to be done first, so you can be as efficient as possible.

00:00 Intro
00:28 #1 - Preliminary Decisions: Number of Owners, Pitching Investors, Budget
01:36 #2 - Form Legal Entity: Sole Proprietor/Partnership (defaults), LLC, Corporation
02:28 #3 - Get Your Federal EIN
02:34 #4 - Start DBA Process
03:14 #5 - Licenses and Permits (business license, sales tax permit, etc)
03:55 #6 - Finish Business Entity (Operating Agreement, Bylaws/Minutes, Shareholder Agreement)
04:24 #7 - Contracts & Policies (privacy policy, terms & conditions, contracts)

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