Jeff Glazer of the UW Law and Entrepreneurship Clinic talks about how the type of entity you form matters in terms of your strategic path to grow and what kinds of money you are able to raise to support that growth. When raising equity, find legal counsel that understands what you need to do to comply with securities law and its required disclosures to investors or potential investors. Protect your recipes through legal processes as well as breaking down processes of your production to assign to multiple people, mitigating the risk of another person knowing all aspects of your product production process.