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Nellie Akalp    

Successful serial entrepreneur, legal startup expert and mom of four

Nellie Akalp is a passionate entrepreneur, small business advocate and mother of four. She started her first business, an online legal document filing service, in 1997 and it quickly grew into a large company which was acquired by Intuit in 2009 for $20 million.

Instead of retiring early, Nellie and her husband and business partner launched CorpNet.com, also an online legal document filing service, in 2009. On a daily basis Nellie helps small business owners form an LLC or incorporate a business to start their ventures off the right way. 

Nellie has helped form more than 100,000 corporations and LLCs across the U.S., building a strong passion to assist small business owners and entrepreneurs in starting and protecting their business.

She shares her expert startup tips with readers at Forbes, Entrepreneur, Mashable and more and is a regular guest expert on the Fox Small Business Center.

Speech Topics

IP Protection - What you need to Know

For content creators, intellectual property is one of the most valuable assets. Nellie will can discuss the ins and outs of the most popular forms of IP protection like trademarks and copyrights and share what is best for which type of content.

How To Rise Above a Saturated Market

Nellie will chat about how she started as the underdog in the online legal document filing space with the launch of her second business, CorpNet.com, but rose up against big-name competitors with her content. As a small business owner up against major competitors with very large ad budgets, it can be difficult to rise above, but she has done so successfully and can share her story alongside tips for others.

When is it really time to incorporate?

A blog is launched and a podcast has their first listener. Is it time to incorporate or should you wait until you make your first million? Nellie will share tips when it comes to the right time to incorporate your new media venture as well as some tips on why it is an important choice, where one may want to incorporate and how to DIY the process.

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