How to open up your business. 10 simple steps for starters

1. Choose a niche to open a business.

Any business starts with an idea. Answer your own questions as honestly as possible:

What can you do well?
What inspires you?
What do you and your people miss?
What would you do better than others do now?
What product or service will you offer?
Who's your client?
What are you gonna pay for?

So you can sort out your niche.


After that, you'll start attending business meetings with the chosen niche. These may be webinars for SMM specialists if you want to move online, business breakfast with entrepreneurs, or, for example, free seminars in My Business Centres, where experienced entrepreneurs are willing to share their real success stories. It will help you understand if the chosen direction is really interesting.


Finally, ask your friends, acquaintances, followers in social media about what you're doing best. Try and sell your product or service prototype. Anyway, as much as possible, get on the cats.


2. Check your knowledge!

Determine what professional and personal qualities you need to strengthen to become a successful entrepreneur. By pulling the gaps in business education, you will have the skills and competencies that will help you set up an action plan and minimize the risks in starting your own business.


Offline

If you prefer offline training, you can enrol free courses for starters. For example, on the Enterprise, at the centre of my business, in your region, where business azam can be trained.


Online.

In a private office, the ICP.RF Digital Platform (registration) has access to rapid verification of competences. Testing can determine the level of professional and personal skills, and then receive personal recommendations for their development. The speciality of this service is the possibility of finding a personal instructor on an interest-bearing direction and to sign up online.


On the same website, you can go through online training free of charge to develop the necessary skills.

3. Make a financial business start model.

How's your business going to generate income? The financial model is to account for and calculate the company ' s current and future cash flows, that is, the economy of your enterprise.


Describe four main indicators for yourself:

Price of product: how much will you sell product/service?
Question: How many goods/services will you buy in a month?
Costs of production: How much will you spend on one product/service?
Ongoing costs: What payments do you need to make at all times, regardless of sales (e.g. rent)?

It's the basis for your future business plan.


By the way, a detailed business plan will help you set up my business for free. The centre ' s specialists, together with you, will consider all the costs necessary to start a business, calculate the cost of the product, production and marketing plan, etc.


4. Find funding sources

After preparing a business plan, you'll understand how much money you need to start a business. There is no single minimum amount for all, it always depends on industry and many other factors. If you don't need cheese and tools to launch, you can start literally from scratch. If you need at least minimal investment, you'll have to figure out where to find the money to start. Give us some clues:

Turn off the social contract and get 350,000 roubles for business development.
Use a concessional micro loans at a lower interest rate at My Business Centre.
Take a preferential bank credit to start a business.
Participate in a grant support programme for young entrepreneurs up to 25 years or social enterprises.
Agro-Startap grant for start-up farmers.

If none of these points suits you, think who can be your business partner and contribute to the opening of your case.


5. Find out what documents are necessary for your chosen business area.

For some activities, special authorizations and documents must be obtained to start operations - licences, certificates, declarations, patents, medical books, etc. In most cases, they are not required, but if your activities are related to work with children, catering services or, for example, the manufacture of food products, it is recommended that the law be checked in advance.


In order to obtain an accurate list of the documents you need, write to free consultation at the center of My Business.


6. Determine the place of business.

It depends on the scope of your project and on what you plan to do. It's just that you start from work from home, but this option is not applicable to all activities. You may consider the following business areas:

Kovorking
Business Incubator
Trade, fairs
Unstable trading facilities
Commercial or municipal rental of office, production, warehouse, catering
Industrial and Technological

7. Choose an organizational and legal form for business and taxation

Once a start-up entrepreneur has decided to open his business, the question arises as to the choice of the organizational and legal form and the tax regime of the enterprise. Slow down, it's quite simple.

If you work and sell your own goods or services without employees, choose self-employment.
If you resell other people's goods or hire employees, you'll become an IP. IPs are almost always more advantageous to keep on " Supposed " (OF). If the value of the goods is more than 60 per cent of the proceeds, then select the UAA ' s " revenue minus " , if less the " UA " income " .
If you have partners, create a GS.

Getting into the depths and details of each regime will help you at the center of My Business. Advise from relevant specialists can be obtained in personal contact with the office, by telephone, by e-mail or by massage.

8. Register your business!

Finally, it is important for you to register your business.

If you've decided to become self-employed, it's as simple as possible to download my tax application and get a quick registration (iOS or Android)
If you decided to open an IP or a GS, you can apply for registration at the center of my business, the IF, the tax, the notary or the banks.

At the same time, you'll need to open an IP.

Propius passport
INN
Activities selected in advance (CEB)

In order to register the GS, take it with yourself:

Constituent passports
address (guarantee letter in case of lease or property certificate)
Model Regulations which can be selected on the Tax Service website

9. Start your business.

You have much work to do: buy equipment, tools and raw materials, hire staff, produce a stable quality product, and promote and sell.


It is possible to save time and money by applying to my business in a new status. Here you can get:

Free professional counselling. The centres include lawyers, accountants and markers (the latter will help clearly identify CAs, TNAs, sales channels) and HR specialists
assistance in applying for registration of a trademark
Recondition of products on labels (which will increase marketing channels)
assistance in the development of a firm style, a logo, a site for your company.
Specific seminars, courses and educational programmes that will help you develop entrepreneurial competencies in command, service, marketing, sales, etc.

10. Spread your business.

Last item (on the list but not in life). Stay close to my business. You'll be expanding your circle of contacts and finding suppliers, business partners, staff and conspirators.

Participate in Russian and international exhibitions and business missions, business communities and non-creatives
Proceed your powers in the public service.
Pack your business in franchise.
Exports.

Being an entrepreneur means always holding hands on a pulse. Making mistakes in starting a business is normal, but with my business, it will be much smaller.

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Entrepreneurs ' support is provided through the Maloy and Middle Entrepreneurship Project

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