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Summary: Must reading for all entrepreneurs
Review: "Inc. Yourself: How To Profit By Setting Up Your Own Corporation" has a very good chapter, "Getting Ready," which walks the potential entrepreneur through the process of forming a corporation. Appendix A has a listing of the State Offices to contact to get your corporation rolling. Appendix B has sample minutes and bylaws for a small corporation. Throughout the book, sample government forms and federal tax returns are shown.McQuown devotes a special chapter to women and minorities, where she discusses taking advantage of minority-supplier contracts. She writes, "Federal contracts can be an undiscovered gold mine. They are not well advertised. If you think your corporation can provide useful services, make a beeline for your local Small Business Administration office and get some advice. Remember: You're paying their salaries. SBA offices are located in state capitals..." McQuown continues: "Yes, of course they're quotas! But after all these years when women- and-minority-owned businesses have gotten what Marilyn Monroe called 'the fuzzy end of the lollipop,' it's time to tilt the balance just a bit in their favor through affirmative-action projects." "Inc. Yourself: How To Profit By Setting Up Your Own Corporation" goes on to discuss Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB) status, "SDBs qualify for [governmental] contracts without undergoing competitive bidding and can win them even if they are 10 percent higher than the low bid. In 1996 SDBs received $6.4 billion in federal contracts." Overall, "Inc. Yourself: How To Profit By Setting Up Your Own Corporation" by Judith H. McQuown is a good book, as it discusses many issues of corporations which people might not know. But, some of the tax saving strategies and examples aren't fully accurate. Peter Hupalo, Author of "How To Start And Run Your Own Corporation: S-Corporations For Small Business Owners"
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Summary: The Bible of Incorporating your business
Review: I have read many books, talked to a lot of friends who started their own corporation and searched internet for tips. Without a doubt, Inc. Yourself is the "Bible" of Incorporating your business. Everyone that I know who is successful recommends this book. It is outstanding and will give you all the information you need to set up your corporation properly. I want to caution you on the internet. There is some really bad advice with some people using the internet to hype their own books. Talk to someone you know who is in business. Check your local library and bookstore. HINT: If the book isn't available in the bookstores or your local library, it probably isn't worth your time. If someone you know is a successful business person doesn't recognize a author, chances are the author is just a "paper tiger" with no real world experience. I have not spoken with anyone who has not heard of Judith McQuown and everyone highly recommends her book.
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Summary: Lot's of good information in this book
Review: I have read many books, talked to a lot of friends who started their own corporation and searched internet for tips. Without a doubt, Inc. Yourself is the "Bible" of Incorporating your business. Everyone that I know who is successful recommends this book. It is outstanding and will give you all the information you need to set up your corporation properly. I want to caution you on the internet. There is some really bad advice with some people using the internet to hype their own books. Talk to someone you know who is in business. Check your local library and bookstore. HINT: If the book isn't available in the bookstores or your local library, it probably isn't worth your time. If someone you know is a successful business person doesn't recognize a author, chances are the author is just a "paper tiger" with no real world experience. I have not spoken with anyone who has not heard of Judith McQuown and everyone highly recommends her book.
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Summary: Great information on How To Incorporate
Review: I read the 8th edition of this book and got a great deal from it. Loaned it out, never got it back so back the newest edition. This is the book everyone else is copying. It's the best. Complete with forms and charts to help you get your corporation going. I also recommend Form Your Own Corporation and Launch a Business in Any State and the Small Business Legal Kit, both by J.W. Dicks and Inc. and Grow Rich by C.W.Allen. CAUTION: There are several books being put out by self publishers. These, some anyway are being promoted by paper tigers i.e. people who are writers only and have no real world experience. Much is outdated and the best of what they offer is in good quality books like this one and the others mentioned above. Goff luck withyour business.
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Summary: A necessary read for all entrepneurs
Review: Inc. Yourself is a necessary read for anyone contemplating starting a business or repositioning in an already established one.I really cannot uderstand the negative reviews. They must be people who haven't read the book or don't understand business.On the other hand, don't make this your only book on incorporating. Two others I suggest are "Form a Corporation and Launch a Business in any State" and "The Small Business Legal Kit" by J.W.Dicks. If you live in Minnesota, then I salso recommend "How to Incorporate and Start a Business in Minesota" also by Mr. J.W. Dicks. My personal testimony is that I opened a busness in the St. Paul area using the information in these books and saved thousands of dollars.
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Summary: Lot's of good information in this book
Review: Inc. Yourself provides a vast wealth of information on incorporating, the benefits you can get and why. Inc. Yourself is an easy read....pretty straightforward. The fact that Inc. Yourself is now in it's 9th printing with more than 500,000 copies in print should tell you something about the great work done by Judith McQuown and the popularity of this great work. As a companion to Inc. Yourself, You'll want to pick up a copy of Launch Business and Incorporate in Any State by J.W. Dicks and/or How To Incorporate in Any State by Brown. This book deserves a solid five star rating and is highly recommended.
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Summary: A necessary read for all entrepneurs
Review: Judith McQuown has written a very good book on how to Incorporate your business.Aside from taxes being the single biggest expence we pay, lawsuits are the single biggest threat we face. I highly recommend Inc Yourself as a guide to Incorporate...
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Summary: Great information on How To Incorporate
Review: This is one of the top three books on how to start your business and incorporate with the other two being Loopholes of the Rich and Rich Dad's Advisors: Own Your Own Corporation. Another would be How To Incorporate in Any State: Everything You Need To Form a Corporation by W. Dean Brown. On S Corporations, the best book I have found is S-Corporations by Robert Cooke. Everyone that I know who is successfu in business is recommending these books. And for good reason, they work and are written by people who have actually been in the trenches and speak from experience. Beware of certain [some] self publishers who have never had any real business experience and merely plagerizing the better authors such as those mentioned above.
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