[dieselgate]

Oh interesting - I haven’t formed an LLC in Delaware but recently formed one in Washington state.

You should check out Delaware state specific websites (probably a .gov) site for all of this stuff. That’s likely where you can file and pay for the whole process. They (the state) should be the primary source of truth for all process/legal information.

A quick search turns up https://onestop.delaware.gov/ as the “one stop” page for formation. Just do what they say - you’ll likely need the registered agent handled before filing for the LLC.

I’ve heard Delaware has “certain advantages” for business formation so not sure on the specifics there or what that means. Good luck - I’m sure others on here have Delaware specific advice

Edit: regarding registered agent - I pay a service to be mine and they also provide a Principal address for the business. If you can it’s probably best to be your own Registered Agent

[resjudicoda]

^ This all the way.

Just follow their official docs. https://corp.delaware.gov/howtoform/

At a high level:

1. Search your company name to make sure it is available. https://icis.corp.delaware.gov/Ecorp/NameReserv/NameReservat...

2. Pay a registered agent (say, Harvard Business Services). You will need this for the next step.

3. Fill out LLC Formation document. https://corpfiles.delaware.gov/LLCFormation.pdf

4. Submit completed form to their document upload service. https://corp.delaware.gov/document-upload-service-informatio...

Not legal advice.

[dieselgate]

"Huh interesting - had no idea Harvard offered something of this sort. But I've heard from a couple friends who went to grad school there that Harvard actually offers a lot of help for "startup" type ventures for their students/alum - don't recall if it's an incubator of sorts or similar. I found this all quite fascinating because after my senior eng. capstone project at a UC school one of the teams got into a lawsuit with one of the academic sponsors. Definitely no startup type help/services offered. Surely similar things happen at Harvard/other schools though around i.p. related stuff all the time though"

Lol, wrote the above out before actually doing a websearch for Harvard Business Services - turns out it's not affiliated with the university and is just a service/company in Delaware. No knocks on the service was just confused on the name - was curious how they'd maintain a presence outside of Massachusetts...

[resjudicoda]

hahaha. i do that all the time. write some draft and then research it only to find out i was totally wrong.

i was confused by the name too. now you got me thinking how they managed to not be sued by the university.

that's an interesting story. sucks getting into a law suit so early on.

and ya, i wonder if school incubators try and lay claim to ip rights.

[ohxh]

Curious how you went about the WA LLC too — I lived there for a lot of my life and that was my other thought on states to incorporate in.

[dieselgate]

It was easy - I just filled out the forms and paid the gov what they want. Other comments mentioned services that file the LLC for you and that's valid - I chose to just do it "manually" through the .gov websites in WA. Not sure your background but I'm a WA resident so there wasn't any difficulty with stuff - my only caveat (since I rent my house and contractually cannot run a business from it) was the Registered Agent/Principal Address service. But a company can fulfill those roles and it's a non-issue.