I like the spirit of this and LegalZoom. I never understood how come we couldn't just fill out and submit a web form to create most kinds of businesses, assuming generic enough details. I understand there are complex edge cases and situations but there are ways of making them a non-issue if we have the collective willpower and make the right base premises.
The forms themselves are easy, even trivial to fill out. However, the Secretaries of State generally do not have the resources to fully modernize their filing systems to handle web-based submissions.
Also, in many cases (i.e., California), the SOS's are barred by statute from accepting non-physical business filings for new entities.
interesting. thanks for insight. so both of those still fallback to a case of lacking willpower and political inertia
this area feels like one of those cases where if we could start with a blank slate, from scratch, and design it "right, from the start", this problem would go away. actually a lot of government and banking feels that way. much of it is an echo/zombie from an era without computers, without the Internet, without telecomm, etc. they just shamble on and very slowly and incrementally incorporate the state-of-the-art, usually only in little pockets and niches.
