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Seven steps to help you form a new company in Colorado. (You may not need all of them)
This can be a tough step in the process. Sometimes, a potential name is obvious, but often it can be tough to think of something that is a powerful name for branding and marketing purposes. It pays to be creative - take some time to brainstorm various names and kick around ideas with friends and family. Perhaps searching www.thesaurus.com will help you.
If you can afford to hire someone to help you, here are companies that provide naming services:
www.thenamingcompany.com www.naming-company.com www.namebase.com
State of Colorado Business Database This site, a service of the Colorado Secretary of State, allows you to perform a free search of existing Colorado corporate names to help you determine if your potential new name is already in use.
This site, a service of The Wall Street Journal, lets you perform a free search of Federal, Canadian and European trademarks.
NameProtect, Inc. offers fee-based trademark research and registration services. Their web site states that they are one of the world's leading trademark research firms, having helped thousands of entrepreneurs, businesses, attorneys, and other intellectual property professionals with trademark needs.
MyCorporation.com claims to be the Internet's leading provider of incorporation, LLC formation, and trademark search services. Offers a free trademark search service, but also more comprehensive fee-based search services.
Click here to check for availability
Colorado Secretary of State web site This is the official web site of the Colorado Secretary of State. If you would like to fill out the paperwork yourself to form a corporation, this site will help. Includes a simple, downloadable articles of incorporation and other tools to enable you to incorporate in Colorado.
Colorado Business Resource Guide The State of Colorado publishes the Colorado Business Resource Guide. The Colorado Business Resource Guide provides general information to assist you in operating your business whether you are a new startup or you have been in business for some time. It is designed to save you time by putting together most of the regulatory information necessary to establish a business in Colorado. It also contains many useful tools and references for successful business operation.
This fee-based web site helps you incorporate a business or form a limited liability company in all 50 states and Washington D.C.
MyCorporation.com claims to be the Internet's leading provider of incorporation, LLC formation, and trademark search services. Founded in 1998 by attorney husband and wife team Philip and Nellie Akalp, MyCorporation.com was one of the first companies to offer online incorporation packages targeting small-to-mid sized businesses and entrepreneurs.
Go to www.irs.gov and download form SS-4, Application for Employer Identification Number. This is a one page form that you can use to easily obtain an EIN from the IRS. The IRS usually responds within a few days.
Would you like to order business cards and letterhead online? Try out www.iprint.com or www.vistaprint.com
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