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Small Business For Dummies, 6th Edition
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Small Business For Dummies, 6th Edition

by Eric Tyson, Jim Schell
April 2024
Beginner content levelBeginner
464 pages
12h 59m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 10

The Owner’s Responsibilities in the Start-Up and Beyond

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Handling the details of a start-up

Bullet Determining which tasks you want to outsource

Bullet Establishing a bookkeeping system that works for you

Bullet Managing your expenses

Bullet Maintaining relationships with vendors and other people outside your business

In the beginning, you as the owner will perform all your start-up’s chores, or at least you will personally see to it that they get done. Well, you’ll personally take care of all the important tasks at least — those responsibilities that will, down the road, either make or break your business if they aren’t done correctly.

Often, however, many of those early-stage duties fall under the category of grunt work — the not-so-exciting-to-entrepreneurial stuff that doesn’t involve dealing with customers, creating new products, or generating much-needed cash. Instead, the duties are often yawn-inducing things like appeasing the government, developing a bookkeeping system, and ...

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