An individual starting a company can title the business by using a fictitious business name. Also known as "'doing business as," DBA or trade name, a fictitious business name replaces the owner's ...

Getting your small business up and running is very involved. Before you can get moving, you have to get the legalities out of the way. This means a legal name and a business license. Many businesses, ...

Fictionalised biographies – novels based on the life of a famous person – are ten-a-penny. And why not? They're easy enough to turn out. Other people – the actual biographers – have done the hard work ...

In California, a corporation's fictitious business name is any name other than the corporate name stated in the articles of incorporation. Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 17900(b)(3). A corporation that ...

‘DBA fictitious business name filing’ may sound like legal jargon—but for small business owners in California, it's a crucial step. It started with a taco truck. One of our clients, Camila (not real), ...

If someone handed you a dollar bill and told you it was fictitious, you might be slightly confused. You can feel it between your fingers, so how could it be fictitious? As Grammarist explains, the ...

What is a Fictitious Name Permit and when and why do you need one? In this article, we cover some of the most common questions and misconceptions about Fictitious Name Permits, which are required to ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The owner of any business operated under a fictitious business name must register that name, with few exceptions. What’s a fictitious ...

"Fictional" and "fictitious" mean pretty much the same thing, but a closer look in the dictionary finds slight differences. In between discussions of whether to sign Yadier Molina or let him go, we ...