The core requirements do not change: qualifying capital placed at risk in a commercial enterprise, lawful source and path of that capital, and at least ten qualifying full-time jobs. What changes is how jobs may be counted, since permitted indirect methods depend on the structure, and how much of the evidence comes from a sponsor rather than the investor.
Decide which evidence you can produce yourself
Before signing anything, list the proof each route requires and mark who controls it. A standalone case usually rests on the investor's own business plan, hiring records and operating documents. A sponsored case rests substantially on project economics, budgets and sponsor reporting the investor cannot compel.
If the investor lacks appetite for operating a business, that is a reason to examine sponsored offerings closely rather than a reason to assume any offering qualifies. Have counsel review both on the actual facts. Look past the petition to the stage that decides the outcome.
Approval leads to conditional permanent residence, and the conditions are removed only on a later petition showing that the capital remained invested and that the required jobs were created, or where permitted will be created within the applicable period. That is why the question of who holds the records in three years matters at the outset. Hypothetical example: an investor considering a standalone large-animal hospital asks who will produce quarterly payroll summaries and job-count evidence at removal of conditions, and discovers that nobody in the current plan has been assigned the task.