How to Begin

When the decision has been made to enter a business on your own, and the type of the business has been chosen, it's worthwhile to analyze carefully the form you want it to take and whom you want to involve. You have to determine the ownership and the legal framework of your enterprise. Each has its pluses and minuses.

Basically, you have to consider 3 options:

Sole Proprietorship
Partnership
Incorporation

NOTE: It is very important to weigh the advantages and disadvantages of all three options.

It is the simplest and most common form of ownership for small business. A sole proprietorship is owned by one person. The owner decides what products to sell or what services to provide, how much to charge, when the business will be open etc. If you choose this option nothing legally separates you and your personal finances from those of your enterprise and your business is taxed through the personal income tax you pay. There is no limit to the amount of profit your business could make and the owner also has unlimited liability.

When two or more people get together to form a business, this business is known as a partnership. They share cost and/or other resources toward the operation of a venture. Partners pay personal income tax on their share of the profits, but the business itself is not subject to income tax. Nothing separates the partners' personal finances from those of the business.

A corporation is a form of business ownership that has an existence of its own, separate from its owners. For this reason, corporations are considered to be more permanent than other forms of business ownership. Corporations can be identified by the inclusion of the words: LIMITED, INCORPORATED, or CORPORATION (or appropriate abbreviations Ltd, Inc.) after the company name. Because a corporation has a legal existence of its own, it will not stop operating when the people running it quit, retire or die.

Market Research
Your Product Or Service
Your Customers
Your Competition
Getting A Financial Picture
Business Guide

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