How can I find people to help start a corporation at no cost to me?
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Maybe you can get people power if you offer them a profit sharing plan.  First advertise your offer and invite people to a meeting.  Than make a great presentation of your idea and how it will benefit those who join.  Emphasize how their investment now will soon benefit them.
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If you want to be up and running ASAP:\n\nhttp://smallbusiness.yahoo.com
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You may wish to contact the SBA ( http://www.sba.gov/ ) or SCORE ( http://www.score.org/ ) for help in starting a business.  They are excellent resources for a small business just starting out (and free, too!).  You should also look into either setting up a corporation of LLC to protect yourself legally.  Contact your state for the guideline involved in that.
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To get started, I suggest contacting the Small Business Administration (SBA) – links below. Entrepreneur also offers a great site dedicated to money & finance – see below.\n\nResearch, research, research – this cannot be stressed enough. Read as much as you can about the industry. Here are some book titles that are relevant:\n\n* Free Money for Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs by Laurie Blum\n* Finding Money: The Small Business Guide to Financing (Small Business Series) by Kate Lister, Tom Harnish\n* Financing Your Business Dreams With Other People's Money: How and Where to Find Money for Start-Up and Growing Businesses by Harold R. Lacy\n\nThere are plenty of free informational resources out there. Check the source box for links to articles.\n\nHope that helps! I wish you much success & happiness in all your ventures!
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I've tried many so called "opportunities" in the past in which I had to pay money to get involved only to find out that I had to give more money to stay involved.\n\nI have been involved with this company about a month and I like it very much. There are NO sign-on, enrollment, maintenance, or other hidden fees at all. That's very impressive to me. I finally found a company that gives you free enrollment, free website, free accounting software, and free support.\n\nIf your interested in this rare opportunity, please e-mail me and I will set you up today and you can start your business today.
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Try talking to the larger Corporations in your area.  You will find that many Corporations donate and give grants.  You may also try contacting Corporations on the Internet.  However, be prepared to prove that your company exists and is in need.  Corporations a leery of Con-artists.
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Try a program like Business Plan Pro. It'll help you sell your idea to other people -- including financial backers.
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Sit down and make what I call your "Field of 1000".  Make lists of all the people you can think of from old jobs, your neighborhood, church, community activities, college, high school, family friends etc .... Keep writing down names until you have 1000 different people.  Call every single one of them to sit down so you can tell them about your new business.  Be VERY clear that you don't want to sell them anything.  When you meet with them, ask them for referrals.  The best leg up you can get from your own network is the opportunity to meet potential clients on a favorable basis.  Get them to write a letter of recommendation for you that you can send to these referrals and then go meet with them.  Over time, your friends and family will do business with you, but you want them to work with you because they want to and because they need your help, not because they felt guilty.  Getting referrals from them early on allows you to get started and allows them to help without buying a product they might not want or need.\n\nIn addition to this, join community organizations (church, rotary, chamber of commerce, jaycees etc ...) so that you have an opportunity to meet community leaders and businesspeople on a favorable basis.  You won't get business from this immediately, but your long term success will be greatly enhanced by becoming well connected in your community.\n\nGood Luck - hope this helps.
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find a small buisness and ask if you can help them for a few hours a day or whatever, any alrge buisness woudlnt hire you but if you knwo someone that does yard work or can find the owner of a small buisness liek a machine shop or printign compnay, alot of them will hir eyou under the table and let you help and learn
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I have just started my own business and got 2000 flyer's for £35 and 5000 business cards for £80 compared to other quotes I received this is a steal!!! If you use a search engine and type in advertising and just for to all the free sites and get your business on there. Get some flyer's and business cards hand them out locally, homes business' etc. It really does work. The inland revenue run workshops, shell live-wire, enterprise, your local careers centre etc. The list is endless. Contact them all and get your name out there.  In Scotland the PSYBT offer a £1000 grant to help start up new business's.  You can also go to any bank or building society and ask for a business angel/guardian to help finance your venture.
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Hey! you don't need to find one!\nI can help you. without charging you anything!
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You need to go straight to the power.  Talk to your principle and if that dont work go to the board of ed. in your town.  You need to have a lot of people interested(enough to make a team).
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Use your connections and ask people if they want to serve.  That failing, see if your community has any incubators.  That failing, call your local chamber of commerce and ask them if they can put you in touch with anyone in the same industry who is not a competitor.
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www.sba.org will be able to help you.
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Go to SCORE http://www.score.org - they provide free mentorship. Check their website for the address nearest you.\n\nOr find some successful local entrepreneurs - they may want to help you out. Or join your local Chamber of Commerce and other entrepreneur organizations in your area and find someone who can advice you. Networking is key to finding the right mentor.\n\nAlso you may want to read more about starting a business. Some recommended websites are:\n\nEntrepreneur http://www.entrepreneur.com\nSBA http://www.sba.gov\nInc http://www.inc.com\nPowerHomeBiz http://www.powerhomebiz.com\n\nYou may also want to check out the following books:\n\n- How to Raise Capital : Techniques and Strategies for Financing and Valuing your Small Business \n- Smart Financial Management: The Essential Reference for the Successful Small Business \n- Financing Your Business Dreams With Other People's Money: How and Where to Find Money for Start-Up and Growing Businesses  \n- Streetwise Financing the Small Business: Raise Money for Your Business at Any Stage of Growth
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Formally you can start a corporation by filing a certificate of incorporation with the state agency responsible for receiving the incorporation papers. (i.e. Secretary of State) You will need to describe the purpose of the company, the type of activities it will be involved with and pay the required state fees.  There are forms that may assist you in most office supply stores or stationary stores.  A corp. will have stock and stockholders.  It will, as most companies do, have offficers Pres., Secretary and Treasurer.  What is most important is having a business plan that you prepare; that will describe your mission statement, business description, products and services, market analysis, management, financial plan etc.
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Call the department of commerce in the city you will be based in.Also the government does have some grants for people who wish to start a business.