Setting Up a Small Business
By: Adam Heist

It can be scary to set up your own business, even when you know what you’re doing. The statistics say that most new businesses fail during their first year of existence. Businesses can fail because of inadequate planning, too much competition, not enough profit margin, or disagreements between partners, or owners and key employees. Many people need a lot of capital to start up a new business, since the business may not make money right away.

If fact, as in the well known cases of several Internet businesses, some operations can lose money for years, and still receive adequate investment to continue and grow, and make an eventual profit. You may have to hire advisors, such as lawyers and accountants. True, you can and should read law books to find out in general and in many particular cases what are the laws regarding your business. Likewise, you can manually, or using a computer program, organize basic accountant statistics for your business.

The problem is when you have to pay taxes, you need to properly organize your payroll taxes, sales tax, etc, and use all the tax deductions you are entitled to, and make sure that these are well-documented. You may need other advice to get an adequate idea of business trends. In today’s speculative economy, the trend toward rapid rises of prices and types of businesses, and their subsequent collapse can be devastating especially for new businesses. We have the recent example of the Internet bubble, which attracted huge amounts of capital in the late 1990s, and then went into a general collapse, as a speculative bubble that popped by early 2001. Many new business owners buy into a franchise.

The logic of this is that there is some security in investing in a name brand and business infrastructure that has some experience. Some of the largest businesses in the United States have been able to keep growing by selling franchises around the country, and continually expanding the extent of their storefront operations. Of course fees and capital investment are involved in setting up a franchise, and you must relinquish control over some decisions on how to present the business to the world. If you are interested in the type of franchise, as something you like to be involved in, whether it is car repair or fast food, this can be a good way to get into business quickly.

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