A company’s ability to adjust its approach in response to a dynamic external environment is an invaluable skill necessary for survival, and shelf corporations might be exactly what your business needs to cope with these turbulent forces. Business owners have slowly discovered that lenders, suppliers, vendors, and even customers prefer doing business with older companies. Important business associates have an outright bias in favor of older companies probably because of the lower financial risk they pose. If your car breaks down in an unfamiliar neighborhood and you are presented with a mechanic that has been doing business in the block for the past 25 years, and another that just opened shop recently, who would you pick to examine your car engine? Obviously, the one that has been around longer, right? Age is associated with experience and subsequently delivery of desired results. Examining the above scenario, it is possible that the new mechanic might have been equally sk...