On October 27, 2016, Austin Carlson, spoke to undergraduate students at Rice University Jones School of Business's Foundations of Entrepreneurship class (BUSI 462). The course is designed to equip students with frameworks and tools for establishing, growing and modeling their business.

Austin's presentation focused on the tax, liability and function drivers for entity selection. His presentation had two objectives:

1. Understand how state choice of entity interacts with federal tax status and the voluntary and involuntary ways to change tax status.
2. Under the main drivers for choice of entity:
   1. Tax
   2. Liability
   3. Entity Functionality

To view the entire presentation, click here.