Incorporation Workshop - Choosing the Right Entity for your Business

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Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation

A workshop on choice of entities as you prepare to incorporate

Polsky Exchange North

Polsky Exchange

The Polsky Exchange is a 34,000-square-foot startup co-working space featuring meeting spaces, a state-of-the-art Fabrication Lab, and a full calendar of programming and workshops designed to help startups and small businesses grow.

Join us for a workshop that explores options and the process of incorporation for startups.Facilitator: <a href="https://ij.org/staff/beth-kregor/" title="https://ij.org/staff/beth-kregor/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Beth Kregor, IJ Clinic Director</a>This workshop will cover:<ol><li>The types of business entities, and factors that might cause a founder to choose one type of entity over another;</li><li>How to select a jurisdiction in which to form an entity;</li><li>The internal negotiations that should take place amongst founders in order to appropriately constitute the entity and establish each founder’s relationship between themselves and the entity; and</li><li>The nuts and bolts of the formation process.</li></ol>You can prepare for this session by watching this pre-recorded session of our Entrepreneurship Essentials (E2) Series: <a href="https://uchicago.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=6a2ca165-4937-4cd6-821f-ae280142ce63" title="https://uchicago.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=6a2ca165-4937-4cd6-821f-ae280142ce63" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Legal Workshop</a> - Incorporation 101 with Emily UnderwoodQuestions? Contact Barbara Agyapong at bagyapong@uchicago.edu.