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

Start your business with confidence using the best step-by-step guide available!



Many people dream of running a business of their own — but often don’t know how or where to start. Sound familiar? This is the book you need.



User-friendly and loaded with tips, The Small Business Start-Up Kit shows you how to launch a business quickly, easily, and with confidence. It explains in plain English how to choose between an LLC and other business structures, manage finances and taxes, market your business effectively online and off, and much more.

Table of Content

Your Small Business Start-Up Companion

1. Choosing a Legal Structure

2. Picking a Winning Business Name

3. Choosing a Business Location

4. Drafting an Effective Business Plan

5. Pricing, Bidding, and Billing Projects

6. Federal, State, and Local Start-Up Requirements

7. Risk Management

8. Paying Your Taxes

9. Laws, Taxes, and Other Issues for Home Businesses

10. Entering Into Contracts and Agreements

11. Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Financial Management

12. Small Business Marketing 101

13. E-Business: Selling and Marketing Online

14. Planning for Changes in Ownership

15. Building Your Business and Hiring Workers

16. Getting Professional Help

Appendixes

A. Small Business Resources and State-by-State

B. How to Use the Interactive Forms on the Nolo Website

Index

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 Business Week, .