Small Business Start-Up Kit, The: A Step-by-Step Legal Guide

Your one-stop guide to starting a small business

Want to start a business? Don’t know where to begin? The Small Business Start-Up Kit shows you how to set up a small business in your state, while clearing state and local bureaucratic hurdles.

We’ll show you how to:

• choose between an LLC and other business structures
• write an effective business plan
• pick a winning business name and protect it
• get the proper licenses and permits
• manage finances and taxes
• hire and manage staff, and
• market your business effectively, online and off.

The 11th edition is updated with the latest legal and tax rules affecting small businesses, plus social media and e-commerce trends.

With Downloadable Forms
Includes access to cash flow projection and profit/loss forecast worksheets, state-specific business resources, and more (details inside).

Peri Pakroo (www.peripakroo.com) is a business author and coach, specializing in creative and smart strategies for self-employment and small business. She has started, participated in, and consulted with start-up businesses for more than 20 years. She is the founder, publisher, and editor of Pyragraph (www.pyragraph.com), an online career magazine for artists, musicians, designers, filmmakers, writers, and other creative workers worldwide. Peri received her law degree from the University of New Mexico School of Law. She is the author of The Women's Small Business Start-Up Kit,The Small Business Start-Up Kit (national and California editions) and Starting & Building a Nonprofit (all from Nolo) and has been featured in numerous national publications including Entrepreneur, Real Simple, Investors Business Daily, and BusinessWeek,.