This updated edition is a valuable resource on how to establish, organize, develop, and eventually sell an emerging company. With 15 chapters, the authors address basic organizational, tax and non-tax planning, and employment issues, as well as how to grow the business through distribution, licensing, and sales. In addition, chapters on protecting your intellectual property rights and how to handle media and public relations are included. A chapter on estate planning for the business owner provides detailed discussions on important estate-planning issues that are unique to the business owner and several effective planning techniques to deal appropriately with them.

For those interested in forming a new company, as well as those who are advising, this guidebook, written by leading experts, addresses critical matters in this specialty area of practice, including:

• Deciding to Start a New Business
• Preparing the Business Plan
• Non-Tax Aspects of Forming and Organizing a New Entity
• Tax Aspects of Forming and Organizing a New Entity
• Tax Reporting and Compliance
• Accounting and Financial Reporting Issues
• Technology and Intellectual Property Rights
• Financing the Business
• Product Development and Distribution
• Human Resources
• The Internet and Online Business Activities
• Public Relations
• Growing the Business
• Purchasing and Selling Businesses
• Estate Planning

Accompanying the book is an online site with forms for you to download and customize for your practice needs.