Why your startup should be a Delaware C-Corp, not an LLC

Re:Why your startup should be a Delaware C-Corp, not an LLC by droithomme on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @12:24PM (#13877242)

A Logical Fallacy: We did something we think might be right for us (but we don't really know yet), therefore everybody in the entire world should do exactly the same thing regardless of their circumstances, and divorced from whether or not this actually works for us or not.

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Re:Why your startup should be a Delaware C-Corp, not an LLC by pdshrader on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @02:58PM (#13878757)

Agreed. The argument Gust presents here for making a C-corp is pretty darn thin, if not verging on inaccurate.

I agree that a C-corp is the right way to go if you're planning on raising venture rounds, but the three reasons presented (can grant stock, can grant options, and required by investors) are misleading at best. LLCs can grant membership units/shares and profits interests, which can act functionally very similar to stock and options.

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Re:Why your startup should be a Delaware C-Corp, not an LLC by smacktoward on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @01:03PM (#13877671)

"By convincing you to do this thing I did, I will help convince myself that I did the right thing when I did it."

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Re:Why your startup should be a Delaware C-Corp, not an LLC by digler999 on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @12:53PM (#13877544)

I'm jaded to the point that I'm skeptical of any posts starting with the words "Why" or "How". It's creeping closer to the phrase "these n easy steps".

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