Upcoming Events, Courses, and Talks

The decisions you make early as a hardware founder can have lasting legal and tax implications. From choosing your business structure and dividing founder equity to paying contractors and managing inventory, getting these decisions right from the start can help prevent costly complications as your company grows. This workshop is a practical workshop designed to help early-stage founders navigate the legal and tax considerations that come with building a hardware business.

Co-presented by Tram Le, CPA, of Le CPA Group and Leslee Cohen of AllRise Legal Counsel, this session brings together legal and tax perspectives to help founders understand how decisions made today can affect their business as they move toward manufacturing, hiring, and fundraising. Attendees will leave with a stronger understanding of how legal and tax decisions intersect and what to consider when establishing a foundation for long-term growth.

Who Should Attend

• Hardware and hardtech startup founders building early-stage companies 
• Early-stage founders deciding how to structure their companies
• Companies transitioning from prototype development toward production
• Founders preparing to hire employees or contractors
• Startups preparing for fundraising or manufacturing scale-up
• Physical-product companies conducting research and development activities
  
  

About the Organization 

Le CPA Group is a Chicago-based CPA firm providing tax preparation, planning, and advisory services for individuals, business owners, and startups. The firm supports growing businesses with entity structure, owner compensation, estimated taxes, R&D tax credits, C-corporation taxation, venture funding, and other complex tax matters, with an emphasis on proactive, year-round planning.

AllRise Legal Counsel is a law firm advising startups and emerging companies on legal matters throughout their growth journey. The firm supports founders with business formation, equity structuring, fundraising, and other legal considerations involved in building and scaling a company.