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Small Business Start-Up Kit for California, The Twelfth Edition
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Want to start your own California business? Don’t know where to begin? Start here.
The Small Business Start-Up Kit for California California shows you how to set up a small business in the Golden State quickly and easily. It clearly explains the fees, forms, and bureaucratic technicalities you’ll encounter and shows you how to efficiently get your business up and running in California. Find out how to:
- choose between an LLC and other business structures
- write an effective business plan
- pick a winning business name and protect it
- get needed California licenses and permits
- hire and manage staff in compliance with California laws
- comply with legal and tax issues affecting home businesses
- price, bid, and bill your projects
- manage finances and taxes
- start a website for your business, and
- market your business effectively, online and off.
The 12th edition is completely updated, with the latest legal and tax rules affecting California small businesses, plus social media and e-commerce trends and platforms.
- ISBN-101413324762
- ISBN-13978-1413324761
- EditionTwelfth
- PublisherNOLO
- Publication dateFebruary 28, 2018
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions8.5 x 1 x 11 inches
- Print length352 pages
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"Excellent advice ... for would-be small-business owners, and heeding it can help you avoid many early mistakes." Los Angeles Times
"An excellent resource for beginners... written specifically for entrepreneurs who want to start their own business in California." startupjournal.com
"A good-to-have, step-by-step to starting a business in California: forms, licenses, business plan, taxes and more." San Francisco Examiner
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- Publisher : NOLO; Twelfth edition (February 28, 2018)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 352 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1413324762
- ISBN-13 : 978-1413324761
- Item Weight : 1 pounds
- Dimensions : 8.5 x 1 x 11 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,840,193 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #508 in Business Entrepreneurship
- #5,562 in Economics (Books)
- #9,860 in Small Business (Books)
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Peri Pakroo (www.peripakroo.com) is a business author, coach and consultant, specializing in creative and smart strategies for self-employment and small business. She has started, participated in, and consulted with start-ups and nonprofits for more than 20 years. She is the founder, publisher and editor of Pyragraph (www.pyragraph.com), an online career and lifestyle magazine for artists, musicians, filmmakers and other creative workers worldwide.
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 Women’s Small Business Start-Up Kit, 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, Investor’s Business Daily, and BusinessWeek.
Through participating in community economic development initiatives, serving on nonprofit boards and sharing resources via publishing models, Peri prioritizes engagement and project-based learning to advance human-centered entrepreneurship.
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