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

Peri Pakroo

Feb 2016 · Nolo

About this ebook

Your one-stop guide to starting a small business

Want to start a business? Don’t know where to begin? Start here.

The Small Business Start-Up Kit shows you how to set up a small business in your state, quickly and efficiently clearing state and local bureaucratic hurdles along the way.

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
• hire and manage staff
• comply with legal and tax issues affecting home businesses
• price, bid, and bill your projects
• manage finances and taxes
• get your website up and running, and
• market your business effectively, online and off.
The 9th edition is completely updated, with the latest legal and tax rules affecting small businesses, and use of social media to promote your brand and drive website traffic.

About the author

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.