The Small Business Start-Up Kit: A Step-by-Step Legal Guide [Paperback]

Peri Pakroo (Author), Barbara Kate Repa (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 2006

The best step-by-step guide to starting a business available!

Many people dream of running a business of their own -- but often don't know how to start. Sound familiar? This book can help.

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 the best business structure *write an effective business plan *file the right forms in the right place *price, bid and bill your projects *draft and use contracts, online and off *manage your finances *be prepared for, and file, required taxes *reach customers online

The Small Business Start-Up Kit also includes all the forms and instructions you need both as tear-outs and on CD-ROM.

The 4th edition is completely updated to reflect the latest legal and tax changes. It includes a new chapter on e-business and expanded information on financing your business. It also features new business-planning spreadsheets on the CD-ROM.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Answers important questions, including whether to incorporate and how to price merchandise." -- Real Simple magazine

"Shows how to set up a business in any state, quickly and easily... A big timesaver." -- Daniel Kehrer, CEO,BizBest

About the Author

Peri Pakroo is a media developer and consultant, specializing in legal and start-up issues for businesses and nonprofits.She received her law degree from the University of New Mexico School of Law in 1995, and a year later began editing and writing for Nolo, focusing on small business and intellectual property issues. She has edited such titles as Nolo's Starting & Running a Successful Newsletter or Magazine; Getting Permission: How to License & Clear Copyrighted Materials Online & Off; Music Law; and How to Write a Business Plan. Besides working with legal and business issues, Peri has also headed the editorial departments of two arts and entertainment weeklies and a monthly food and lifestyle magazine. She lives with Juno, Kitty B and Turtle in New Mexico.

Product Details

• Paperback: 350 pages
• Publisher: NOLO; 4th edition (March 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1413304125
• ISBN-13: 978-1413304121
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #237,720 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Peri Pakroo is a business and communications consultant, specializing in legal and start-up issues for businesses and nonprofits. She has started, participated in, and consulted with start-up businesses for 20 years. She owns and runs P-Brain Media (www.pbrainmedia.com), a strategic consulting and communications firm that develops information-rich media for web, print, video and other formats.

Peri received her law degree from the University of New Mexico School of Law in 1995, and a year later began editing and writing for Nolo, specializing in small business and intellectual property issues. She is the author of the top-selling Nolo titles The Small Business Start-Up Kit (national and California editions) and Starting and Building a Nonprofit, and has been featured in numerous national and local publications including Entrepreneur, Real Simple, Investors Business Daily, and BusinessWeek.

Peri teaches adult education courses at WESST (www.wesst.org) in Albuquerque, a nonprofit whose mission is to fight poverty by facilitating entrepreneurship among women and minorities in the state of New Mexico. She is active in supporting local, independent businesses and is a co-founder of the Albuquerque Independent Business Alliance (www.keepitquerque.org).

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Small Business Start-Up Kit by Nolo, August 25, 2006

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D. L. Clark "genbuff" (Morgan City, AL, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Small Business Start-Up Kit: A Step-by-Step Legal Guide (Paperback)

I have always trusted Nolo products so this book was a given for me. I like the CD that came with it. It is a very well written, easy to understand book.

4.0 out of 5 stars Easy to use, July 25, 2009

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This review is from: The Small Business Start-Up Kit: A Step-by-Step Legal Guide (Paperback)

Step-by-step instructions for starting a small business. Does NOT include the usual 'personal' advice, just practical instructions with many forms and examples.