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How to buy the time to build your business into a success. Most prosperous businesses are started on extremely tight budgets, and founders hustle hard to deliver innovative--or simply good--products or services. This book focuses on strategies to make great business ideas reality as cheaply as possible. Among the topics covered are how * you can save money by doing the necessary TCwork yourself, including incorporations, DBA notices, taxpayer ID applications * to organize your living space into a useable work space * to find very inexpensive or free office hardware * to get very inexpensive or free Internet access, phone service and other essential services * to save money by hiring interns, part-time workers, family members and volunteers to staff your start-up Forget what you've heard about Ivy League start-ups and go-go venture capital. The truth is that most new businesses race against limits of time and money to become successful; David Caplan demonstrates how start ups can buy more time by saving money.
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HOW TO START A BUSINESS FOR FREE The Ultimate Guide to Building Something Profitable from Nothing SILVER LAKE PUBLISHING LOS ANGELES, CA ̶ ABERDEEN, WA How to Start a Business for Free The Ultimate Guide to Building Something Profitable from Nothing First edition Copyright © 2003 by David Caplan Silver Lake Publishing 111 East Wishkah Street Aberdeen, WA 98520 For a list of other publications or for more information, please call 1.360.532.5758. Visit our Web site at www.silverlakepub.com. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transcribed in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording or otherwise) without the prior written permission of the copyright owner. Library of Congress Catalogue Number: pending How to Start a Business for Free The Ultimate Guide to