Are you talking about a B-Corp or a Benefit Corp? The first is a certification, the second is a legal structure.
Before deciding, you might want to take a look at this archived chat about the benefits of B-Corps vs. L3Cs (another possible structure): (Terrible structure to get through, but good info.): http://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/nonprofit-for-profit-l3c-b-corp-ho-22806/ This is a pretty good site too: http://www.lawforchange.org/lfc/default.asp Lina On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Yosem Companys <compa...@stanford.edu>wrote: > I wrote a piece a few months ago on the benefits of cooperatives for > liberationtech entrepreneurs: > > > http://liberationtech.tumblr.com/post/28442687690/how-cooperatives-could-fix-social-medias-net > > But I excluded the b corp from that analysis. > > Yosem > > On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Andrew Haeg <aoh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm considering applying for B-Corp status once I get GroundTruth up and > > running. Very curious to learn more -- such as: is it essentially just a > way > > to distinguish your co. from other, non-benefit corps? > > > > > > On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Yosem Companys <compa...@stanford.edu> > > wrote: > >> > >> Rafael made me curious... Anyone in liberationtech used this legal > >> status before? Perhaps Renee can tell us more about it? > >> > >> YC > >> > >> > >> From: Rafael Shimunov <r.shimu...@gmail.com> > >> > >> Any folks out there working for a b-corp? Or ever considered it? I'm > >> currently researching it for a social enterprise startup. > >> > >> http://www.bcorporation.net/ > >> > >> Best, Rafael > >> -- > >> Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > >> https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > > > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > -- > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > -- Lina Srivastava -- linasrivastava.com | twitter <http://twitter.com/lksriv> | linkedin<http://www.linkedin.com/in/linasrivastava>
-- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
