<div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif">Hi, Peter.</span><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif">I am not an accountant and of course I'm not very familiar with your situation, other than what you outlined. But I do feel a strong pull in the direction of getting your own LLC. If for some reason your business is going very different directions later, or if you and your wife go in different directions, separating things out maybe an enormous chore and the cause of great friction.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif">Also, depending on what kind of consulting you do, and especially if it's stuff that doesn't generate a lot of liability, you may not need to incorporate. As a marketing and profitability consultant, I have done just fine as a sole proprietor since starting my business in 1981. But lives are not at stake in my consulting, and I have no employees.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><br>Shel Horowitz - "The Transformpreneur"(sm)</div><div>________________________________________________</div><div>Watch (and please share) my TEDx Talk,</div><div>"Impossible is a Dare: Business for a Better World"</div><div><font color="#1155cc" size="2"><u><a href="http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809" target="_blank">http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809</a></u></font><font color="#1155cc" size="2"><u><a href="http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809" target="_blank"> </a></u></font><br><div>(move your mouse to "event videos")</div></div><div><br></div><div>Contact me to bake in profitability while addressing hunger, <br></div><div>poverty, war, and catastrophic climate change</div><div><br></div><div>Twitter: @shelhorowitz</div><div><br></div><div>* First business ever to be Green America Gold Certified</div><div>* Inducted into the National Environmental Hall of Fame</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://goingbeyondsustainability.com/" target="_blank">http://goingbeyondsustainability.com</a> </div><div>mailto:<a href="mailto:shel@greenandprofitable.com" target="_blank">shel@greenandprofitable.com</a> * <a href="tel:413-586-2388" value="+14135862388" target="_blank">413-586-2388</a></div><div>Award-winning, best-selling author of 10 books. Latest:</div><div>Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World (co-authored with Jay Conrad Levinson)<br></div><div><br></div><div>_________________________________________________</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div dir="auto"></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 18, 2019, 8:31 PM Peter via Hidden-discuss <<a href="mailto:hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net" target="_blank">hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi hidden-techers ,<br>
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I’m an embedded software engineer by trade and I recently learned from my employer that, due to market difficulties, I’ll need to start looking for new work the middle of next year.<br>
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I was talking to a friend and he recommended that I startup my own LLC and go the consulting route to “try before I buy” on any new job before I start full time, if possible. <br>
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The likelihood of me actually doing that aside, here’s my question: my wife already has gone through the process to get an EIN/LLC for her art business. Could the two of us use the same LLC ? <br>
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If so, is that advisable, or should I create my own?<br>
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If we did share the same one, I’d want to change the LLC company name from an art-themed one to something more generic. Has anyone gone through this process? <br>
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Having never consulted before, I’m pretty clueless as to all of these logistics. <br>
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I’m interested in anyone’s thoughts or advice on any of the above. I also recently started a relationship with a local tax accountant so I’ll likely talk to them about all this as well.<br>
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Thanks in advance for your time and thoughtful responses!<br>
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-Peter Sienkewicz<br>
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