AVOID STARTUP HARASSMENT - with Curt Harrington, JD, MBA, LLM (Taxation)

Barnes & Noble, Events area, 6326 East Pacific Coast Highway, Long Beach, CA

"The assistance and direction given by organizations that purport to "guide" entrepreneurs and startups falls short of providing requisite survivability to founding owners. Governments (local and federal) dispatch their tax organizations to tell new businesses to pay, how to obey and comply. They dispatch their labor departments to tell new businesses who they can hire and when they can operate, what wages they have to pay, and what overtime rules apply. Cities, counties, and states have devised all manner of permits, licenses, fees, rules, regulations and other inhibitive barriers to entry. These rules and barriers disfavor startups and place all businesses in a much more precarious position than they otherwise would be. No government organizations tell startups how to protect their own financial interests."

People you competitively face in business may say they want to see you succeed, but they all put their
interests first and are generally more than willing for your business’ demise. A startup needs to consider
everything on this list before making any moves on any point so that all of the points can be used to wisen
the genius making a start.

The harassment that a startup seeks to avoid is all future harassment, and not just
“how can I be harassed now”. Each error in setting up and operating a business is an opening for you to be
harried, harassed and hurt in moving forward. The point of considering everything is to prevent harassment
from occurring at ALL points in development and not just “perpetually later on.

Topics and areas to be covered:

Collect Data Before Start
Consider Starting Only After Acquiring Unambiguous, Clear Data
Consider All Possibilities
Business entity & portability
Contracts with Others (business setup and operations)
Entity Liability
Avoid Personal Liability
Entity Optimization
Legal Considerations
Employment Headaches
AB5/Dynamex Employee Problem
Ownership v. non-ownership of products and services.
Insurance - Basic & Specialty
Taxes

In order to better understand what problems you consider the most challenging, please email me any advance questions you have - I will address those concerns in the time we have on Wednesday evening.

Please join us for an informative, interactive session.

Curt is a California Board of Legal Specialization Certified Taxation Specialist. and a Tax Attorney, MBA. In addition to his J.D., Curt holds an LL.M. - Tax from the University of San Diego, B.S in Chemistry, Masters Degrees in Chemical and Electrical Engineering, and an M.B.A. - some of which was earned while working for Aramco. Curt was chair of the Taxation Advisory Committee of the California Board of Legal Specialization, a unit of California State government that oversees California's Legal Specialization Program, and then was chair of the main board of the California Board of Legal Specialization. A State Bar of California Approved Tax Specialization Continuing Education provider, Curt is also enrolled to practice before the Internal Revenue Service and admitted to practice before the United States Tax Court, enabling the representation of taxpayers from any jurisdiction before the Internal Revenue Service and before the United States Tax Court.

Contact: curt@patentax.com for questions about the syllabus or your particularized concerns.

For more information, please call 562.594.9784

Seating is limited. Please let us know if you will be attending.