Hi - one of the cofounders of Clerky here. Three main differences:
1. Other services tend to focus on main street, traditional small businesses. So their forms are missing provisions and documents that are important to startups.
2. Our software lets you do everything completely online. LegalZoom lets you do some stuff online, but then snail mails you a bunch of stuff to sign.
3. Not sure about other services, but LegalZoom takes 20-35 business days to return your filed certificate of incorporation. you can pay extra to expedite this to 7-10 business days. Clerky does it in 1-3 business days.
Are there plans to expand to other types of corp....or, more importantly to my own heart, nonprofits? (especially with YC starting some work w/nonprofit startups)
I tend to find most nonprofit information (especially on Legalzoom and maybe nolo) to be shaky at best, most everything appears to be written by for-profit corp lawyers that quickly read nonprofit statutes and modified a few for-profit corp templates/forms.
One example—unemployment & worker's comp regulations seem to be very, very different (YMMV, depending on state) for nonprofits, which led me (on a lawyer's advice) on a weeklong snipe hunt trying to procure insurance and trying to pay taxes that I didn't need.
Yes, definitely! I've wanted to do nonprofits for a while too, from a personal perspective (my mother runs one). There's a lot of work we need to do just to fully serve startups, but we are definitely looking forward to the day when we can help nonprofits too!
