Throwaway so I can keep the external-illusion that I know what I&#x27;m doing.<p>Preamble:<p>Here in Boston, MA, my bootstrapped project has started making and spending money.  This is very exciting, but I&#x27;ve started accepting payments -- ultimately under my own name&#x2F;legal responsibility -- and have been paying for consulting&#x2F;business needs&#x2F;online services from a personal credit card.  So far, I&#x27;ve paid out ~$500 and netted ~$100.  Fortune 500, watch out for the newcomer, I know.<p>On a prior startup, I incorporated an LLC very early on and I think I spent too much time and money (but maybe I&#x27;m wrong) for something that only ended up netting me ~$30k.  Things felt much more &quot;above board&quot; in that scenario as I had a separate tax ID, bank account, corp business card, and business entity, but this was a suck on time and money that should have been going toward growing the business.<p>Question:<p>At what point should a little, but growing, b2c &amp; b2b dot-com startup make things more official?  Legal council is obviously costly and I&#x27;m not leaping at the prospect of paying thousands of dollars in fees and yearly taxes before my company even nets $10k.  On the horizon, I&#x27;m set to begin billing a small pool of businesses at $10&#x2F;mo and will be putting together a pitch deck -- potentially&#x2F;shooting-for raising a small angel round (250k will <i>easily</i> buy us 2 years of runway and allow us to make a sales hire).
Ask HN: At what point should a small startup invest in becoming an LLC/corp?