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Listen in! Pick up some expert advice to a reader's question that we selected from CyberSchmooz. Featured Biz Question I'll soon be starting a business with my partner. We want to have a national corporation: I have some q's about the subject. We plan on starting a prototype retail store first. Can this still be a corporation? Is it a small business? A partnership? How do you become a corporation? What's the difference between an S-corporation and a C-corporation? Answer from our Guest Expert Kent Capener of Capener Consulting Hi, There! Your biz appetizer menu has definitely brewed up several cogent questions. Before we dive into some of them, let's look at the unasked one first. What's that, you ask? How Can You Start Your Business as Partners and Make it a Corporation? Past pre-corporate businesses have included every type of friendship, including those based on social or money bonds. These friendships or relationships can be from your best dreams or worst nightmares. Regardless of the type of relationship with your partner, the secret to a successful merger -- be it as a partnership or corporation -- is how you approach maintaining the "spirit" of where you started in to the business future. Never mind whether you're a novice or a well-seasoned entrepreneur, it's this spirit (good or bad or in between) that keeps a biz boat afloat. With that said, let's see about your partnership and corporation questions. Page 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 Enter your search terms Submit search form       Search Idea Cafe Web Small Business Tax Center • Idea Cafe Home • Sign Up • Biz Grant Center • CyberSchmooz •Coffee Talk with Experts • People in Biz Profiles • Starting Your Biz • Biz Planning • Running Your Biz • FREE Trade Publications • Marketing • Financing Your Biz • Human Resources • Legal & Biz Forms • Managing Your Biz • eCommerce • You and Your Biz • Gen X • Work@Home • The Fridge • De-Stress • Send an Award • Send an eGreeting • Yoga @ Your Desk • Web Guide • Idea Cafe in the News • About Idea Cafe • Advertise on Idea Cafe • Contact Us • Privacy Policy • Site Map • Small Biz News Copyright 1995-2023, Idea Cafe Inc. Downloads are for personal use only, not for resale to others, and may not be reprinted in any form without written permission from Idea Cafe Inc. DISCLAIMER: We hope whatever you find on this site is helpful, but be cautioned that it may not apply to your own situation, or be totally current at any given time. Idea Cafe Inc. and all of its current and past experts, sponsors, advertisers, agents, contractors and advisors disclaim all warranties with regard to anything found anywhere on this family of websites, quoted from, or sent from Idea Cafe. and its related sites, publications and companies. We also take no responsibility for comments published by others on these pages. TRADEMARKS: The following are Registered Trademarks or Servicemarks of DevStart, Inc.: Idea Cafe®, Online Coffee Break®, The Small Business Gathering Place®, Take out Info®, Biz Bar & Grill®, Complaint-O-Meter®, A Fun Approach to Serious Business™, CyberSchmooz™, and BizCafe™.

About the Expert Kent Capener Owner of Capener Consulting Kent is an expert on marketing; advertising; print, radio, and TV production; biz plan writing; trade show services; and direct response television. He relishes helping start-ups grow. more