PayPal sues Google + ex-PayPal VP for Google Wallet

Re:PayPal sues Google + ex-PayPal VP for Google Wallet by aclark on Thursday May 26, 2011 @09:55PM (#2590171)

Why is everyone a Delaware corporation? That makes me feel like my company should be a Delaware corporation. ;-)

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Re:PayPal sues Google + ex-PayPal VP for Google Wallet by mikeklaas on Thursday May 26, 2011 @09:58PM (#2590177)

Why corporations choose Delaware [PDF]:

http://corp.delaware.gov/whycorporations_web.pdf

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Re:PayPal sues Google + ex-PayPal VP for Google Wallet by r00fus on Friday May 27, 2011 @01:48AM (#2590561)

Corporations choose Delaware because the lawyers who incorporate them (usually contracted from big firms) choose Delaware.

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Re:PayPal sues Google + ex-PayPal VP for Google Wallet by unfasten on Thursday May 26, 2011 @11:53PM (#2590381)

If you're really thinking about incorporating in Delaware then you might want to check out this post, "Why incorporating my startup was my worst mistake" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2399139

It's about the experience another HN user had incorporating his startup in Delaware and also generated a nice discussion about things to think about before you decide to incorporate (and specifically in Delaware).

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Re:PayPal sues Google + ex-PayPal VP for Google Wallet by brown9-2 on Thursday May 26, 2011 @10:24PM (#2590225)

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_haven#North_America and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware_General_Corporation_La...

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Re:PayPal sues Google + ex-PayPal VP for Google Wallet by chintanp on Thursday May 26, 2011 @11:44PM (#2590366)

Check these detailed answers on Quora, http://www.quora.com/Why-do-a-lot-of-public-companies-incorp...

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