When you’re starting a small business there can be good reasons to keep it close to home. Usually family members can be trusted to care about your business to an extent that others would not. But there’s at least two things to look out for.
The first is the level of trust. If you had a little sister who borrowed your cardigan and got it stained, all without asking first, then she might not be the right person for bank deposit runs.
The second is wages. Family may offer to help out for free. But unless you make them actual partners in the business or members of the LLC (this trick won’t work for corps), Connecticut statutes require you pay at least minimum wage to anyone you allow to work. Failure to do so is a class D felony.
