We started this site because every other LLC formation resource we could find felt the same way — loud, salesy, and designed to push you toward whichever service paid the highest commission. We wanted somewhere that read more like a reference book and less like a pitch.
The information needed to form an LLC is technically public — it's all in Secretary of State filings, IRS publications, and a few federal statutes. The problem is that it's scattered, written for lawyers, and surrounded by marketing pages that quietly nudge you toward a paid service.
Business Starter Hub gathers that information in one place, translates it into plain English, and lays out the actual order of operations. Whether you're forming a single-member LLC for a freelance practice or registering a foreign LLC as a non-US resident, you should be able to read a few clear pages and know exactly what to do next.
These aren't aspirational. They're the checklist an editor runs through before any page goes live.
Every fee, deadline, and procedure traces back to a government source — Secretary of State filings, IRS publications, FinCEN guidance, or a specific state statute. If we can't link it, we don't print it.
If a sentence requires a law degree to parse, we rewrite it. The goal is to leave you genuinely informed, not gently overwhelmed into clicking the affiliate button at the bottom of the page.
Affiliate commissions never determine our recommendations. Several of the formation services we cover do not pay us a cent — some of them we still recommend, and some of the ones that do pay us we openly criticize.
State fees change. Federal rules change. Every guide on the site has a re-verification date and is checked on a rolling monthly schedule. Pages that fall out of date are pulled, not patched silently.
Business Starter Hub is published by a small team of editors and researchers with direct experience forming and operating US LLCs — including a few who've done it as non-US residents, more than once, in more than one state. We don't outsource guide-writing to generalist content shops, and we don't auto-generate state pages from scraped data.
When you read a page on this site, a human researched it, a different human reviewed it, and a third human re-checks it on a rolling schedule. It's slower than producing content at scale — it's also the entire reason the site is worth reading.
When we recommend an LLC formation service, registered agent, or accounting tool, the links to those services are usually affiliate links. If you click through and sign up, the company pays us a commission. You pay the same price either way.
We don't run display ads. We don't sell email lists. We don't have a paid course, a coaching program, or a "premium tier" with the same information behind a paywall. The affiliate model has flaws — mostly that it can quietly bias editorial judgment — and the only honest answer to that is to keep our recommendations testable, comparable, and openly criticized when they deserve it.
If you ever read a guide and feel like the recommendation has tilted toward whoever's paying, please tell us. That kind of feedback is more useful than any analytics dashboard we run.
