Every business, from a mom-and-pop flower shop to the next billion-dollar tech giant, first has to legally establish itself as a company. But, just as there are many kinds of businesses, there are also many ways of establishing a company—and as you can imagine, a flower shop and a would-be Uber are probably not going to be best-served by the same one.

Every business, from a mom-and-pop flower shop to the next billion-dollar tech giant, first has to legally establish itself as a company. But, just as there are many kinds of businesses, there are also many ways of establishing a company—and as you can imagine, a flower shop and a would-be Uber are probably not going to be best-served by the same one.