I’m starting a company in a small city. I recently went to SF for 3 months for an accelerator. I see the value of being in SF for proximity to investors and talent. If you need to move fast being in SF is probably the best place to be. Lots of talent hire and investors to talk to.

But it comes at a large cost would and it would be about 3-4x more expensive to hire the same team in SF.

My advice is too go the cheaper route of using a Clerky or Atlas and then spend the money to tidy it up later. Maybe you could pay a lawyer $5k now vs $30k later for the clean up but the value of the money and time required changes drastically.

Spending $5k when I started my business would literally be months of expenses. Spending $30k now still sucks but capital is much cheaper now, maybe 1/3rd of our expenses for the month.