Be your own boss. Sounds great, doesn’t it? If you were the boss, you could set the schedule, you could make the rules, and your earnings would be limited only by the amount of work you wanted to do. Right? Well - sort of.

Small business ownership offers a lot of advantages over working for someone else. It also offers a lot of disadvantages. And it’s not for everyone. Whether you dream of creating your own career, of working part time while you get through school or raise children, or of becoming the next Bill Gates, you need to start at the beginning and move forward carefully in order to avoid the start-up pitfalls and the small business blues.

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