Path 01
Setting up
Visa, entity type, registration, banking: what to put in place before the first dollar of revenue. Each entry names the competent agency and stops there.
8 guides across 4 areas
01
Legal structure
The entity type drives your taxation, your liability and sometimes your personal status. It is the first decision, and the most expensive one to undo.
- LLC, Corporation: the forms that exist The entity types available in Florida, what each implies for tax, and why the choice comes before everything else. Read the guide
- Registering in Florida, step by step The registration path through the Florida Division of Corporations, the documents required, and the role of the registered agent. Read the guide
- Subsidiary, branch, or starting fresh The three ways to carry a US activity when you already have a company in Europe or Quebec, and what separates them. Read the guide
02
Visa and status
A visa lets you enter, a status lets you stay: two different things, where a European residence permit does both. And many categories tie the status to the company itself.
- The visa categories that allow entrepreneurship The visa families open to an investor, a founder, a transferred executive or a qualified professional, and what each assumes. Read the guide
- Status for spouse and children What the principal’s status opens, or does not, for a spouse and children: work, schooling, autonomy. Read the guide
03
Banking and cash flow
Opening a business account with no US credit history is the first wall most founders hit, and it is prepared before arrival.
04
Opening obligations
The identifiers, licences and filings without which a company exists on paper but cannot invoice, hire or open an account.
- Tax identifiers, licences and filings The numbers and permissions without which a registered company cannot invoice, hire or open an account. Read the guide
- Mandatory insurance and first premises What a company must insure in Florida, what a landlord requires, and what the climate adds on top. Read the guide