Steps Starting Small Business

Starting a business involves planning, making key financial decisions and completing a series of legal activities. These 10 easy steps can help you plan, prepare and manage your business. Click on the links to learn more. Use these tools and resources to create a business plan.

With flat job numbers and few solutions to get Americans back to work, starting your own business can be your path to financial recovery. In fact, despite the economic turbulence, new data from Manta, the world's largest online community for promoting and connecting small business, finds 500,075 new...

There are tens of thousands of "work from home" sites. So, how in the world do you possibly weed out the garbage, from the real stuff? I did an experiment, just to see what would happen.

(Moneywatch) The government shutdown has come at exactly the wrong time for small businesses, shutting down loans and freezing government contracts just as that sector was getting back on its feet. The closure of the Small Business Administration has cut off a key source for small and lower rate loans just as businesses are preparing for the Christmas rush.

When I first started writing about small business many years ago, the concept of home-based business wasn't even on people's radar. Even as the advent of new, affordable technology such as the personal computer, fax machine and voice mail made home-based business possible in the late 1980s and early 1990s, small business owners who worked from home were still anxious to hide the fact.