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New business start-up: “A Start-Up That Automates the Process of Starting Up,” says article in NY Times

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As I mentioned here recently, this  Selling Face to Face site is aimed at new business start-ups as much as at the sales training needs of experienced sales teams.

In that regard— new business start-ups and how-to — here's an interesting link to an article on
 Wicked Start   a free site designed by an experienced entrepreneur and management consultant. I haven't personally checked it out yet, just read the article  and looked at the Wicked Start website, but it seems definitely worth your taking a look.

As I understand, when you sign up you get access to a series of how-to checklists and templates to hold your hand through each of the major steps of a new business start-up from scratch.

It's free, so I'm not at all clear on the business model.

Here's the article I read, which came to me via the "Small Business from the New York Times" weekly e-mailing.

A Start-Up That Automates the Process of Starting Up — NYTimes article

“Never too late to start a business,” USA Today

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That's the title  of Laura Petrecca's article in USA Today, but actually it's by no means just about "older" Americans: the stats indicate it's "just-plain American" (of all ages) who are starting new businesses, electing self-employment, and otherwise going off on their own as consultants, free-agents, and the like.  Here are some of the key numbers on self-employment from that article:

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“Opportunity” entrepreneur or “necessity” entrepreneur?

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Sunday's New York Times (August 23, 2009) ran an article apropos to this blog, and I thought you might want to check it out.  The title is "Unemployment can lead to entrepreneurship," with a secondary title of "On to Plan B: Starting a Business." 

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