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Want to give your small start-up the look of a big business? Oneway is to add "Inc." to your business name by choosingincorporation as your legal form of doing business.
"Your business can appear more substantial, moreestablished, when you're incorporated," says CarolineQuigley, executive vice president of Inc. Plan (USA), a Wilmington,Delaware, company that helps businesses incorporate. "It'sone thing to do business as `Jane Smith,' but doing business as`Smith Public Relations Inc.' gives the business addedstature."
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