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How To Form Your Own Corporation Without a Lawyer for Under $75.00

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This book is horrible. First it focuses on incorporating in Delaware, and gives you most of the necessary forms for that state as well as basic forms 40 other states (no explanation why 9 states were excluded). These forms and instructions are all downloadable from the states' Web sites anyway, so this book is pretty much useless.

The book also promotes the author's company, which charges very high fees for simple incorporating services.

If you need sample bylaws, etc, get them from "Small Business Kit for Dummies," which has much, much more useful information and many other forms you can use. Don't waste your money on this book like I did.

The book is very informative and helpful, and gives the reader a good background on what is required to create a corporation. The weakness of the book is that it focuses on creating a corporation in the State of Delaware. And does not warn the reader of this until they begin reading the book. All the forms and information provided relate to creating a corporation in Delaware. If that is the objective of the reader, then this is a very useful book. If one is planning on creating a corporation in another state then this book may not be very useful.

This book indeed concentrates on Delaware, but does offer incorporation procedures and fees for every state in the USA (as far as I could see, anyway). It's entirely adequate, if extremely lacking in the sort of explanatory babble that one might desire from such a book.

If you want to learn more about incorporation and what it means, look elsewhere. If you want a bare-bones incorporation guide that does cover the ground, is up-to-date and points to a company well-known for pioneering low-cost self-help incorporations, then this is a good book, and your money will have not been spent in vain.

K9 Civilian Search and Rescue Corps says:
The persons who wrote poor reviews regarding this book certainly do NOT understand anything about incorporating nor did they read the book carefully. Any corporation can be filed in ANY state and then it becomes a "foreign" corporation in all other states. If a corporation wants to do business in another state they have to file in each state as a foreign corporation. The reason that Delaware is chosen by most all other big corporations is because Delaware protects its officers, board members and stock holders infinitely better than all other states, and it has the lowest corporate fees. That is why Standard Oil Company of California and Litton Industries of Beverly Hills are Delaware corporations. After reading Ted Nicholas's book I got so good at it that I was able to help over 300+ people form for-profit corporations for pay. It is one of the very best books I have ever bought and used. Gratefully, "the_dog_father_mike."