A small business with 20 or fewer employees expends the equivalent of nearly $8,000/yr per employee just trying to comply with Federal laws.  Note that this does not include State and Local compliance costs, which can be considerable.  Read more here.

If you’re a small business owner, you may want to write your congressional representative about this unfair burden.

An attorney provides some common sense tips for business owners to avoid litigation.

Of course, we believe being incorporated provides some good protection as well .

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So says the National Federation of Independent Businesses report on Small Business.

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Many people find themselves the “accidental owner” of an Ebay business. MSNBC offers some tips for running your Ebay business legally.

Many entrepreneurs feel like getting Venture Capital is the best way to startup success, however, BusinessWeek counters that idea with their excellent article: The Art of Doing It Yourself.

A timely subject for sure.  Here’s a summary of the tax writeoffs for the self-employed!

Of course one of the best tax writeoffs of all can be simply incorporating your business as a corporation or LLC.  This may allow you to deduct many things that a simple DBA or Sole-Proprietorship may not with the added bonus of liability protection.

Little nuggets of wisdom.

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Building a business for less money is what we’re all about at MyNewCompany.com.  Dr. Cornwall offers some of the best bootstrapping advice I’ve read. 

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