Kathianne
02-03-2013, 09:31 AM
When Matt Yglesais gets it, perhaps others will too:
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/small_business/2013/02/starting_my_small_business_cities_make_it_incredib ly_hard_to_get_a_business.single.html
Starting a Business Is a Huge Pain I’ve been to three offices, filed five forms, spent $200, lost a day of work—and I’m not even close to getting the simple license I need. By Matthew Yglesias (http://www.slate.com/authors.matthew_yglesias.html)|Posted Friday, Feb. 1, 2013, at 6:30 AM ET
Last week, having read my own writing (http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2012/04/buy_a_house_it_s_much_cheaper_than_renting.html) about how it’s cheaper to buy a house than rent one in most markets, I decided to take my own advice. My wife and I bought a new place, and instead of selling our old condo, we’re going to rent it out. And thus I became a small-business man.
Or, rather, I’m becoming one. Entrepreneurship—even on the smallest and most banal scale—turns out to be a time-consuming pain in the you-know-what. My personal inconveniences aren’t a big deal, but in the aggregate, the difficulty of launching a business is a problem and it may be a more important one as time goes on.
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http://www.slate.com/articles/business/small_business/2013/02/starting_my_small_business_cities_make_it_incredib ly_hard_to_get_a_business.single.html
Starting a Business Is a Huge Pain I’ve been to three offices, filed five forms, spent $200, lost a day of work—and I’m not even close to getting the simple license I need. By Matthew Yglesias (http://www.slate.com/authors.matthew_yglesias.html)|Posted Friday, Feb. 1, 2013, at 6:30 AM ET
Last week, having read my own writing (http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2012/04/buy_a_house_it_s_much_cheaper_than_renting.html) about how it’s cheaper to buy a house than rent one in most markets, I decided to take my own advice. My wife and I bought a new place, and instead of selling our old condo, we’re going to rent it out. And thus I became a small-business man.
Or, rather, I’m becoming one. Entrepreneurship—even on the smallest and most banal scale—turns out to be a time-consuming pain in the you-know-what. My personal inconveniences aren’t a big deal, but in the aggregate, the difficulty of launching a business is a problem and it may be a more important one as time goes on.
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