Starting Your Business

Gain deep insights into starting your business with practical guides for modern entrepreneurs.

Before You Start
Finding Your Way
Incorporating
Initial Funding
Launching Your Company
Pre-Launch Concerns
Product-Market Fit
Resources
Portrait of two women standing back-to-back with their arms crossed. On the left is Schola Eburuoh, a Black woman with shoulder-length curly dark hair smiling warmly at the camera, and Sophia Casino, a woman with shoulder-length straight dark brown hair parted in the middle, wearing a bold pink blazer and white winged eyeliner, with a confident smile.
Starting Your Business

How these founders landed a no-strings $10,000 grant for their startup

Schola Eburuoh and Sophia Cabral-Casino say they’ll use the money for filing a patent and hiring part-time help at their home maintenance app.

Dan Latu
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Starting Your Business

Inside the state programs that help unemployed workers start a company

Unemployment offices in some states offer monetary and educational assistance to qualified aspiring entrepreneurs.

Dan Latu
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Starting Your Business

Disability tech founders face resource constraints. That’s changing

A guide to incubators, startup accelerators, and VC firms focused on disabled founders and assistive tech.

Jordyn Grzelewski
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Starting Your Business

How to validate a product idea before you write a single line of code

It’s critical: 43% of startups fail because they don’t achieve product-market fit.

Patrick Kulp
Headshot of Sabeen Khan with her chin on her hands and smiling at the camera.
Starting Your Business

My first mistake: I filed as an LLC instead of a C Corp

Wellness and beauty app founder Sabeen Khan shared how she discovered she chose the wrong structure for her startup.

Dan Latu
A mountain of paperwork with rays of light behind it
Starting Your Business

C-Corp vs. LLC vs. S-Corp: Which structure actually fits your startup?

One of the first steps to starting your business is choosing its corporate structure.

Tricia Crimmins
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Starting Your Business

Pre-revenue funding 101

What steps entrepreneurs should take before seeking funding, weighing bootstrapping against VC funding, and other considerations for early-stage founders.

Jordyn Grzelewski

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