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[aroraborealis]

Say you were giving pointers to someone considering starting a small business. Where would you send them, what book(s) would you recommend, and/or what tips would you give?

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[spike.livejournal.com]

I wrote up some notes on starting startups. There are lots of other good resources on-line, one possible starting point for finding some is this guy's 'delicious' bookmarks tagged 'startup'.

Books I'd recommend include For Entrepreneurs Only by Wilson Harrell, and everything ever written by Guy Kawasaki. Oh, and buy at least five books from Nolo Press ("Don't feed the lawyers!"); they have everything from how to start an LLC, how to file a patent (don't do this - no really), and what you have to do tax-wise with a small business. Even if you later hire an accountant and a lawyer to take care of these things (do this), you need a surface-level basic understanding anyway.

That help? :)