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Just google "delaware corporation". There are endless posts. It's not the only state which is popular to incorporate in, but it's easily the biggest. "Over 50%

• kolev 12y ago
  This doesn't mean it's good for all kinds of corporations though.
• dragonwriter 12y ago
  > "Over 50% of publicly traded United States corporations and 60% of the Fortune 500 companies are incorporated in that state" Publicly traded corporations and Fortune 500 companies are particularly likely to have to operate in a large number of states and deal with multistate operations issues, so it makes a lot of sense for them to be incorporated in the most advantageous state before considering multistate operations issues, because choice of where to incorporate isn't going to have a meaningful impact on the issues they have from multistate operations. Smaller corporations, even ones that hope to later become publicly traded and/or Fortune 500 corporations, have different sets of concerns. The biggest criticism of the "always incorporate in Delaware" argument I've seen is that it is, for small corporations, usually a premature optimization. (Most of the arguments for DE incorporation seem to center around convenience for various exits and later, investor-demanded reorganizations.)