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C-Corp vs LLC: Which Entity Type Is Right for Your Startup

2026-03-10 · TheCorporation Team

C-corp vs LLC for startups: tax treatment, fundraising, equity, and governance differences every founder should understand before incorporating.

TheCorporation vs. Stripe Atlas

2026-03-08 · TheCorporation Team

Both platforms form Delaware entities. The documents they produce, and what happens after formation, are fundamentally different.

Why Lawyers Should Trust Standardized Documents

2026-03-03 · TheCorporation Team

Standardized formation documents are not a shortcut around legal counsel. They are the reason legal counsel can focus on what actually matters.

The Vesting Schedule Is a Time Lock on Your Own Company

2026-02-27 · TheCorporation Team

Four-year vesting with a one-year cliff is the default equity structure for every startup founder and early employee. Most people sign it without understanding the mechanics, the edge cases, or what happens when someone leaves.

Raising Money Without Losing Your Company

2026-02-23 · TheCorporation Team

SAFEs, priced rounds, 409A valuations, conversion math, and dilution all change the cap table in ways a spreadsheet often hides.

Month Six: Your First Real Contract

2026-02-20 · TheCorporation Team

Six months in, the corporation starts hiring, signing contracts, and taking on obligations that outlast the people who made them. Every commitment flows through the same authority model, and the tiers start to matter.

The Tax Calendar Nobody Gave You

2026-02-16 · TheCorporation Team

The moment you incorporate, multiple compliance clocks start running: franchise taxes, annual reports, federal filings, and state registrations.

Your Cap Table Is a Ledger, Not a Spreadsheet

2026-02-12 · TheCorporation Team

Every startup's cap table starts as a Google Sheet, but a cap table is an ownership ledger with the same integrity demands as a bank account.

The 83(b) Election Is a 30-Day Bomb

2026-02-09 · TheCorporation Team

You have exactly 30 days from the date of your restricted stock grant to file a one-page form with the IRS. Miss it, and you'll pay ordinary income tax on stock that might be worth millions. There are no extensions. There are no exceptions.

Month Zero: Incorporation Is a Commit

2026-02-05 · TheCorporation Team

You start a company by creating a legal entity, and that first incorporation commit is more consequential than most founders realize.

The Policy Engine That Says No

2026-02-01 · TheCorporation Team

A governance engine matters most when it blocks unauthorized actions. This post walks through the deterministic policy checks behind that decision.

Three Tiers of Trust

2026-01-29 · TheCorporation Team

Authority for corporate agents should be delegated in tiers rather than granted all at once or withheld entirely.

Your Bylaws Are a Syntax Tree

2026-01-25 · TheCorporation Team

Corporate governance has always been a set of rules, and rules can be expressed as trees once a machine needs to follow them.

Governance That Survives Its Platform

2026-01-21 · TheCorporation Team

Platforms get acquired. Platforms shut down. Platforms raise prices, change terms, and deprecate features. Your corporate governance shouldn't care. Here's what happens when governance is protocol-native instead of platform-dependent.

The Merge Request Is a Corporate Resolution

2026-01-18 · TheCorporation Team

Parliamentary procedure has governed deliberative bodies for centuries. Git's collaboration model maps cleanly onto the same proposal, review, approval, and ratification cycle.

Every Stakeholder Gets a Clone

2026-01-14 · TheCorporation Team

In a peer-to-peer governance model, every director, officer, and authorized stakeholder holds a complete, cryptographically verified copy of the corporate record.

No Server Owns Your Corporation

2026-01-10 · TheCorporation Team

Your cap table lives in Carta's database. Your bylaws live in Ironclad's database. Your formation documents live in Stripe Atlas's database. None of these are your databases. This is a problem.

The Hundred-Dollar Corporation

2026-01-07 · TheCorporation Team

What happens when the cost of running a corporation falls to nearly zero? You get an explosion of entities: micro-corporations, special-purpose vehicles, and project-specific companies that exist because they should, not because someone could afford the overhead.