How to Start a Business: Five Key Steps to Getting on Track
http://www.iabc.com/cwb/archive/2006/1006/independent.htm

Steigman, Daria
Communication World Bulletin
2006

Abstract:

I received a slightly panicked call the other day from a colleague who had recently ventured out on her own after many years of working for others. She had been lured into self-employment by an opportunity that matched up her passion and her skills—but it wasn't going to pay all the bills. So she needed to get serious about starting up some kind of freelance business. But where to start? Although my colleague had taken the necessary legal steps in her state (notably, applying for a business license), she didn't know what to do next. She was, in her own words, paralyzed.