Resources to Start Your Business

Ready to Get Started?

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When you want to start a business, what should you do first?

At Ready Entrepreneur, we believe you should just getting started:

Decide what you want to do (pick one idea, you can always change your mind)

Think about what your successful business looks like

Research and Plan the Steps You Need to Take to Create your Successful Business

READ Life Dream: 7 Universal Moves to Get the Life You Want through Entrepreneurship to help solidify your courage and confidence in moving towards your entrepreneurial dream.

Many other resources will give you the ‘traditional advice’ to do administrative paperwork or market research before you have even formulated your idea.  We believe in focusing on building the business first.  You need to have the idea be viable in some form – even if just a plan – before you worry about whether to spend money on analysis.

Get the idea going first!  Take a look at Ready Entrepreneur’s checklist for moving forward

AFTER you have worked through the above, check out these articles to help you understand the other factors you will likely have to consider:

The Complete 12-Step Guide to Starting a Business – Entrepreneur magazine

How to Start a Business in a Few Hours – Inc. magazine

How to Start a Small Business for Less than $1,000 – Forbes magazine

Start Your Own Business: 50 Things You’ll Need to Do – Nolo (This is a lot of legal, technical stuff so only check this after you get your idea going)

Check out these external courses